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Wild Mushroom Hunting

Michael Weese

Saturday, 11 am @ The Labyrinth

Ancestors, allies, and aliens...meanderings in the 5th kingdom. An intro to wild mushroom hunting.

Ever wonder how you are going to feed yourself and or your pham with gourmet ingredients in the zombie apocalypse? Or how to turn your trash into food, make powerful medicines, supplement your income, or even clean up your environment of pollutants and heavy metals?

Mushrooms are the answer to all of these.

Come take an early stroll with us around the grounds and into the forests to see what fungal secrets Ramblewood is waiting to share. We will focus our talks, and studies to a few select common useful species as well as any that we find on our walk as to make the over 9000 local varieties slightly more bite sized. We promise you will be bitten and smitten with mushrooms after this class and will never be able to enter the woods again without looking for those most earthy of glyphs.

Biography

Michael is an avid mushroom enthusiast who went professional picker and mycologist last year. All self taught, he is now one of the Mycological Association of Washington D.C.'s ID guys as well as picking and selling his wares in many restaurants and online in the form of health supplements. His knowledge and passion of the ins and outs of the forest is infectious and spreads far beyond just mushrooms. Michael has also studied edible and medicinal plants as well as fungi and speaks in great detail of the applications possible with all to enrich your path. A kind, childlike, excited soul...happy to share all you will catch.