spring edible mushrooms of the pacific northwest
wednesday, may 12, 2021, 7:00pm - 8:30pm pacific time
via zoom
Registration closes at 6:00pm the evening of the class. Be sure and reserve your spot!
Instructor:
daniel Winkler
This class is designed so that whether you’re new to foraging or you’re an experienced mushroom hunter, you’ll learn new fungal facts and tricks that will enrich your life and fridge.
We’ll focus on how, when, and where to find the PNW’s best spring mushrooms and how to identify them safely. Daniel will also recommend the best mushroom reference materials for the PNW and how to use them.
A few of the mushrooms we’ll cover include Natural, Landscape, Blonde and Fire Morels (Morchella spp.), Spring Morels or Thimble Caps (Verpa bohemica) and False Morels (Gyromitra montana). We will discuss how to tell them apart and safely process and prepare them. Several other spring and year-round mushrooms will be covered as well.
The class will be illustrated by Daniel's stunning mushroom photography.
tuition: $10 - $20 sliding scale
The link to the Zoom meeting will be sent out to attendees before the workshop time.
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.
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