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May 2023

Sun 28
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Pop-up walk Prospect Park, Brooklyn

Please join us for a walk in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, this Sunday!

This weeks walk will cover plants as well as fungi. We will be joined by Marielle Anzelone, a botanist and ecologist. Marielle is an urban ecologist focusing on people's connections to nature & how design, education, and government can nurture this relationship. She is the founder of NYC Wildflower Week – an organization that produces programming to engage urbanites with the wilds of the Big Apple.

We also encourage you to visit the Vote for a New York Wildflower Initiative!

If you've never been on a mushroom walk with us before, here is what to expect. We highly recommend using the iNaturalist app to document the fungi you find. Find out how to use it here.

After the walk, we will be meeting for our first ever mushroom picnic (RSVP required). See additional information below!

Mon 29
Mushroom ID night
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Mushroom Idetification

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Please join us for our ID session on Monday night to share what you've found, get finds identified or to see what others have found.

June 2023

Thu 1
Zachary (Mazi) Hunter
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Zachary (Mazi) Hunter – Mycological Mexico: Oaxaca edition

Mexico is one of the most climate diverse countries in the world and it has been estimated that indigenous Mexicans consume about 300 species of edible mushrooms across its eight climatic regions;  All eight climates are found in the Southern State of Oaxaca. Despite its inclusion geographically in North America, the country of Mexico can seem quite foreign in its attitudes toward mushrooms and mushroom foraging when compared to the US or Canada. The difference, even more pronounced in Oaxaca, is more than just a language barrier, though that plays a significant role; despite Spanish being the dominant language, there are more than 16 official language groups throughout this state alone. More than half of the political regions in Oaxaca are self-governed autonomous democracies. There are no mushroom picking permits: nothing can be removed from the land, or even access granted, without express permission of the community. And yet, their knowledge of mushrooms and even mycology is vast and has been known since time immemorial. In this presentation, Chef Zachary Mazi attempts to tackle the barriers in understanding this delicate relationship, and discusses the intricate web of food-life-forest-community that underlies the unique management of these diverse and incredible ethnomycological regions whose wisdom holds so much potential for the rest of North America.

Mon 5
Mushroom ID night
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Please join us for our ID session on Monday night to share what you've found, get finds identified or to see what others have found.

Mon 12
Mushroom ID night
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Thu 15
Keith Seifert
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Keith Seifert – Three Microfungi that Changed the World

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To celebrate the publication of “The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi,” my recent book for general readers, I will present three stories in depth to show the profound effects of fungi (or “phungi”) can have on human affairs. We will follow the path of the Great Potato Famine from its origins to the Irish diaspora of millions of victims to Canada and the USA. We will look at the discovery of penicillin and its impacts on World War II and conflicting concepts of intellectual property. Then we will look at some global aspects of wheat rust. These stories show that the impacts of fungi and fungal research extend far beyond the corridors of science.

Mon 19
Mushroom ID night
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Mon 26
Mushroom ID night
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July 2023

Mon 3
Mushroom ID night
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Mon 10
Mushroom ID night
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Mon 17
Mushroom ID night
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Mon 24
Mushroom ID night
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