Wild Mushrooms, A World of Wonder at our Feet

Name: Wild Mushrooms, A World of Wonder at our Feet
Start: 2024-09-28T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-09-28T15:00:00-04:00
Location: 600 S Raccoon Rd Youngstown OH 44515

Schedule

Sat Sep 28 2024 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

600 S Raccoon Rd Youngstown OH 44515 | Austintown, OH

Explore the diversity of macro fungi with Walt Sturgeon. Distinctive edible and toxic species will be discussed and will include an overview on cooking, ecology, folklore, bioluminescent, hallucinogenic, and insectivorous species.
About the presenter: Walt Sturgeon is a field mycologist with over 40 years of experience studying and identifying mushrooms. His photos of mushroom and fungi, some award-winning, can be seen in numerous mushroom field guide publications, three of which he co-authored: Waxcap Mushrooms of Eastern North America, University of Syracuse Press, 2012; Mushrooms and Macrofungi of Ohio and the Midwestern States, Ohio State University, 2013., and Mushrooms of the Northeast, Adventure-Keen Press. He has also written Appalachian Mushrooms, Ohio University Press, 2018, He was a Contributing Author to the Encyclopedia of Appalachia, University of Tennessee Press.
Walt has received the North American Mycological Association (NAMA) Award for Contributions to Amateur Mycology, and Northeast (North America) Mycological Federation (NEMF) Eximia Award, both for contributions to the advancement of amateur mycology. He is the past president of the Ohio Mushroom Society and has associations with many other mycological organizations.
Register here: https://bit.ly/3MNpizm