I've always wanted to find morel mushrooms. Never had luck before, so built a tool using AI to find them.
Pretty sure this is going to work!
The tool is a Mind from
@ethoswarm and I'm sharing how because it's such a short window of time that they're out and they're starting to pop up now.
Morels like very specific conditions like soil temp at a specific depth, moisture, amount of daily sunlight, pH, and they grow around certain types of trees.
Lots more to it, but this is all info that's available online. It's fragmented, so people pay subscriptions for mushroom finder apps.
Basically the Mind taps into a bunch of live data, aggregates it, and because it's agentic, it can smartly and precisely find spots that I should check.
Here's what I have my Mind checking
- For soil temperature and moisture I use
@open_meteo.
- For the soil drainage and pH levels it queries the
@USDA SSURGO database directly with SQL.
- Terrain details like slope and aspect come from the
@USGS 3DEP elevation data.
- It checks for nearby streams and rivers through the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
- Scans for recent fire perimeters using the
@NIFC_Fire data and maps.
It's all agency-level data that my Mind verifies first, then checks against maps.
Daily and as often as I want, I get a report that tells me how far north morels are starting to show up based on current weather, soil temp, moisture levels, people's reports, etc.
Since it knows the perfect conditions and spots for morels, it tells me where they are growing now, and where to expect them next.
It gets VERY specific. Like, exact GPS coordinates where I should be able to find morels, since it knows current conditions on the ground and the weather.
I actually have it cross referencing the GPS coordinates with Google Maps too, just so I know it's accurate.
Morels haven't reached my area yet, but my Mind tells me they'll be here in 3-14 days most likely. It's given me coordinates to 5 public spots I should expect to find Morels.
Next I'll be asking it to find obscure locations by looking at a map first, then analyzing the other data points.
Let's see if I can find a secret spot nobody has found yet.
If you want to test this out and hunt some mushrooms with me, launch your own Mind and you can basically just copy/paste this entire post into the email. It will understand what to connect to
Or you can just tell it you want it to help you find morels tell it this
"Equip yourself with the app "MorelScout" (ID: 33C0B169-552F-F111-AD1D-0EA9A5017E89)"
That's it!
I'll record and share when I go out hunting.
Attached screenshots in replies of what the reports look like when I asked for a few spots I should check by me.