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Permits, rules and safety, area by area, with the official sources linked.
Seasons
Périgord black truffle in Spain: season and picking rules
When the Périgord black truffle season opens in Aragón, Castilla y León, Cataluña and Comunitat Valenciana, and what you need to pick it legally: a dog, a knife, a licence and the landowner's consent.
Permits and rules
Mushroom Pass in Mosqueruela: Prices, Limits, Rules
You can't pick mushrooms in the Mosqueruela (Teruel) coto without a pass. Which pass a visitor needs, where to buy it, how much you can pick and what is forbidden.
Permits and rules
Burgos: which mushroom permit you need for your forest
There is no single permit in Burgos: each plot has its own price and its own limit. A table of five plots, discounts, the north of the province and a pre-trip checklist.
Permits and rules
Sierra de Albarracín and Bronchales: the mushroom permit
One permit covers the whole mushroom park, Bronchales included: what it costs, who gets a discount, where to buy it and which picking rules are broken most often.
Permits and rules
Cuenca: do you need a permit for mushroom picking, and how to pick
No permit is needed in Cuenca as a general rule: up to 5 kg or 10 litres per person per day. Where a pass is required, how to pick, and when to stay out of the forest.
Permits and rules
Segovia: which mushroom permit you need and how much it costs
In Segovia, one permit covers both regulated areas. We explain how much it costs in 2026, who gets a discount and why the Valsaín forests need a separate permit.
Permits and rules
Mushroom permits in Navarra: four valleys
There is no single permit for Navarra: you buy one from the specific valley. We explain what it costs, what the limit is and where to buy it in Ultzama, Erro-Roncesvalles, Salazar and Aezkoa, and which local rules are easy to get wrong.
Permits and rules
Do you need a permit for mushrooms in Cataluña
There is no general permit and no general limit on mushroom picking in Cataluña. Restrictions are introduced by town councils and landowners, and in Aigüestortes National Park picking is allowed only in the peripheral zone.
Science
Why one year is full of mushrooms and another almost empty
Why mushroom yields swing so much from year to year: what multi-year surveys in Spanish forests have shown, and what cannot be concluded from them.
Kitchen and storage
The first two days after the forest: from basket to frying pan
How to store, clean and cook wild mushrooms you have already identified: two days kept cold, long cooking, each species separately and a raw specimen set aside just in case.
Kitchen and storage
How to freeze and dry mushrooms: what to do and why
How to heat mushrooms before freezing, what temperature to dry them at and how to store your stock so it doesn't spoil: step by step, with the reason for each step explained.
Science
The ‘wood wide web’: what is confirmed and what isn’t
Do ‘mother trees’ feed young trees through the mycelium? Three critical scientific papers: what is known, what isn’t, and why the debate is still open.