Alabama Forager Tim Pfitzer Pursues His Love Of Nature, Food And Flavor

By Bob Blalock

Tim Pfitzer lays out the ground rules for a trip to forage wild morel mushrooms like a fisherman revealing to a buddy the secret location of his favorite spot for lunkers: Don’t tell anyone where it is, and don’t go back without him to forage.

Conditions agreed to, we set out from Pfitzer’s Irondale home with his foraging partner and girlfriend, Bradleigh Turnipseed, to parts unknown, or at least unrevealed. The trip to the site becomes its own adventure. Pfitzer at times brakes to a crawl in his Honda CRV to point out edibles: a patch of watercress in a culvert, berries in cedar trees lining the road, wisteria in full bloom draping a nearby tree. He draws the ire of at least one impatient driver behind him.

“Don’t worry about drivers that get mad at me while we go through this. I do this all the time,” he says. “Their anger doesn’t bother me. I hope it doesn’t bother you.”We merge onto the interstate, and Pfitzer proceeds to answer questions and weave the story of how he became a forager as expertly as he negotiates the clog of afternoon rush-hour vehicles toward what he hopes will be masses of morels.

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