Thank you all for attending our last identification & low-tech mushroom cultivation workshop last month! We were so stoked that participants found over a dozen different species of fungi at the workshop even after such a prolonged dry spell!
Culinary & medicinal fungi found included: Snow Fungi, Paddy Straws, Cloud Ear, & Fan-Shaped Jelly Fungus.
Fan-Shaped Jelly Fungus
Medicinal fungi found included: Bloody Polypores & Northern Cinnabar Polypores.
Bloody Polypore
Poisonous fungi found included Flowerpot Parasols & Onion Earthballs.
Onion Earthball
Curious & beautiful fungi found included: Tinypores, Bird’s Nest Fungi, various Stinkhorns including Sea Anemone Stinkhorns, Split Gills, & Spring Polypores.
Stinkhorn Egg
An update on our low-tech project we created together: several of the spent coffee grounds & used cardboard oyster spawn jars have fully myceliated & have just now been set up for fruiting mushrooms!!!
oyster myceliated spent coffee ground jars
Thanks to Chef Nicot for slicing & dicing that mountain of cloud ear fungus!
Cloud Ear Fungus meal by Chef Nicot
See you all at our next workshops!