An ethnography of the global supply chain for matsutake mushrooms. A delicacy prized in Japan, the matsutake grows unpredictably, on no schedule but its own, in ruined places like the lodgepole pine forests of Oregon’s eastern Cascades—what remains from the heydays of Oregon timber. There, Southeast Asian refugees and white veterans find a precarious freedom as mushroom pickers. In the chain that brings Oregon mushrooms to Japanese tables, and in the ruined forests where these mushrooms thrive, Tsing argues, we can see how objects and practices that are explicitly non-capitalist—such as those of Oregon’s mushroom pickers— become appropriated and turned into profit-making inventories.