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Sat 17 May, 10am to 3pm - Reading the Fungal Landscape: Mushroom Identification & Fungal Ecology Foray ticket
Relative to plants and animals, the diversity and significance of fungi is little known. Yet fungi are vital in creating and stabilising soils, nourishing and interconnecting plants, recycling nutrients, retaining and filtering water, restoring environmental damage and essentially underpinning ecosystem health and resilience. This workshop that includes both an indoor session around a specimen table followed by a field foray, introduces participants to the diversity of the Kingdom Fungi and the basic principles of fungus identification and fungal ecology. You’ll learn how to identify fungi using the senses, field guides and other resources. In particular, we will explore the functional roles of fungi in various ecosystem types and different approaches to incorporating them in conservation, land management, biodiversity monitoring and bush regeneration. Even when fungi aren’t producing mushrooms, their ‘tracks and traces’ are present in the environment. We’ll examine various habitat types like old wood, living trees and soils to look for clues of the processes and functions performed by fungi in the environment. What do they tell us about tree and ecosystem health? Which are indicators of old growth? And how do fungi respond to fire, soil compaction and other environmental stresses? You’ll get to do the detective work to ‘read’ the environment through a fungal lens! Participants are welcome to bring fungus specimens to the workshop for identification.
Relative to plants and animals, the diversity and significance of fungi is little known. Yet fungi are vital in creating and stabilising soils, nourishing and interconnecting plants, recycling nutrients, retaining and filtering water, restoring environmental damage and essentially underpinning ecosystem health and resilience. This workshop that includes both an indoor session around a specimen table followed by a field foray, introduces participants to the diversity of the Kingdom Fungi and the basic principles of fungus identification and fungal ecology. You’ll learn how to identify fungi using the senses, field guides and other resources. In particular, we will explore the functional roles of fungi in various ecosystem types and different approaches to incorporating them in conservation, land management, biodiversity monitoring and bush regeneration. Even when fungi aren’t producing mushrooms, their ‘tracks and traces’ are present in the environment. We’ll examine various habitat types like old wood, living trees and soils to look for clues of the processes and functions performed by fungi in the environment. What do they tell us about tree and ecosystem health? Which are indicators of old growth? And how do fungi respond to fire, soil compaction and other environmental stresses? You’ll get to do the detective work to ‘read’ the environment through a fungal lens! Participants are welcome to bring fungus specimens to the workshop for identification.
$60.00Sun 18 May, 10am to 3pm - Slow Mushrooming: Mushroom Identification Workshop ticket
Fungi are diverse, delicious and sometimes deadly. With interest in foraging for wild food on the rise, learning to accurately identify fungi reduces both poisoning risk to humans and harm to the environment. Developing the skills to find fungi requires slowness, not speed. The workshop will focus on assisting participants to identify a few edible species thoroughly, rather than many superficially. We will engage multiple senses to examine the major diagnostic features of edible fungi alongside their toxic lookalikes. We will also follow the principles of ‘ecological foraging’ – an approach based on care, conservation and an understanding of ecosystem dynamics. Following an interactive indoor identification session around a specimen table we will then head to the field to search for fungi. This workshop is of value to those who want to learn to identify any fungi, not just edible species. Please note that although we won’t be collecting fungi during the foray, as we may be in areas where collecting is forbidden, you’ll get to learn many skills for finding and identifying fungi and have a memorable foray! Participants are welcome to bring fungus specimens to the workshop for identification.
Fungi are diverse, delicious and sometimes deadly. With interest in foraging for wild food on the rise, learning to accurately identify fungi reduces both poisoning risk to humans and harm to the environment. Developing the skills to find fungi requires slowness, not speed. The workshop will focus on assisting participants to identify a few edible species thoroughly, rather than many superficially. We will engage multiple senses to examine the major diagnostic features of edible fungi alongside their toxic lookalikes. We will also follow the principles of ‘ecological foraging’ – an approach based on care, conservation and an understanding of ecosystem dynamics. Following an interactive indoor identification session around a specimen table we will then head to the field to search for fungi. This workshop is of value to those who want to learn to identify any fungi, not just edible species. Please note that although we won’t be collecting fungi during the foray, as we may be in areas where collecting is forbidden, you’ll get to learn many skills for finding and identifying fungi and have a memorable foray! Participants are welcome to bring fungus specimens to the workshop for identification.
$60.00
