FINDING AND IDENTIFYING PNW MUSHROOMS
FINDING AND IDENTIFYING PNW MUSHROOMS
(IN PERSON)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2021
11:00AM - 3:00PM
Registration closes at 6:00pm the evening before the class. Be sure and reserve your spot!
LOCATION:
TREESONG, 41 Treeific Dr., Washougal, WA 98671
INSTRUCTOR:
DANIEL WINKLER
This workshop is a mushroom foray into the woods for both beginners and advanced mushroom lovers. We will collect edible, medicinal, and otherwise interesting mushrooms and learn how to identify them safely beyond any doubt. The instructor will also share how to process mushrooms before creating an enjoyable meal.
We’ll learn about these strange organisms and their lifestyles, mushroom ecology (which helps tremendously in finding the right locations for future collections), and some of the most common trees in our area. Recognizing hemlocks, Douglas firs, alders, etc. is crucial in finding choice edible mushrooms.
We hope everyone will head home with safe and tasty mushrooms as well as a whole new understanding of the fungal kingdom.
WHAT TO BRING:
Notebook
Camera
Weather-proof clothing
Hiking boots or other boots
Basket or another container for mushrooms
Snack and water
TUITION: $85
SUPPORT NATURE CONNECTION: Please consider making an additional donation to help TreeSong, a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Anything helps and we thank you in advance!
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About the instructor:
Daniel is the author of two field guides to edible mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest and California (Harbour Publishing, 2011 and 2012), Amazon Mushrooms (2014, co-authored), Field Guide to Medicinal Mushrooms of North America with Robert Rogers (2018), and the brand new MycoCards Boletes of Western North America, co-authored with Gary Gilbert.
Daniel grew up collecting and eating wild mushrooms in the Alps and has been foraging for over 20 years in the PNW and beyond, sharing his enthusiasm as a mushroom educator and guide, and as past PSMS vice president. In his presentations he combines his stunning photography with an often funny blend of entertaining stories and scientific information that he likes to refer to as "edutainment.”
Having been in love with mushrooms since early childhood, Daniel has managed to bend his career as an ecologist and geographer focused on High Asia toward researching rural Tibet's enormous fungal economy. His Cordyceps research has been featured in The Economist, National Geographic, The New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, BBC World Service, and more. With his travel agency MushRoaming, Daniel has been organizing mushroom-focused eco adventures to Bhutan, Tibet, the Amazon, Colombia, the Austrian Alps, and the Pacific Northwest since 2007. In the last decade, Daniel has started exploring neotropical fungi.
Click here to check out MushRoaming.