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Mushroom Workshops

Once you have a mushroom identified, your possibilities open up.

That is when you can decide whether to eat it, preserve it, tincture it, or just take a photo of it.

The fine details of identifying mushrooms are what these workshops are designed to be;
boots on the ground, hands on the mushrooms, and a fork in the hand events.

Mushrooms are seasonal, so are the workshops. These are a series of Hybrid Zoom and in-person Workshops, primarily looking at each season's choice edibles and how to identify them.

Hybrid Workshops, Zoom presentation plus field day.

  • Polypores

    Polypores make for perfect winter finds, since they are with us all season long. The great interest in polypores come from their functional properties. We will learn about our finds, and also about the best known polypores; Chaga, Reishi, Turkey Tail, and others.

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  • Spring Mushrooms

    Spring brings several delicious mushrooms to the table, but also a few you need to watch out for. The most popular of all the spring mushrooms is the morel. This course will do an especially deep dive into varieties of morels, where and when to find them, and how to prepare the. Morel lunch included.

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  • Summer Mushrooms

    In Alberta, summer has the greatest variety of mushrooms. It can be quite the challenge to sort out all those tempting mushrooms and confusing look alikes. We focus on about a dozen edible mushrooms you can safely pick, plus teach you to identify a few unexpected ones that we forage along the way.

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  • Fall Mushrooms

    Some mushrooms love the cool evenings of fall, some even wait for a bit of frost before popping up. Depending on the year, some fall mushrooms start appearing in late August and can carry on through October. Fall mushrooms give us the opportunity to fill our bowls and souls with enough mushrooms to last until the morels show up in spring.

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Fungal Workshops

  • Functional Mushrooms

    Functional Mushrooms are an exploding topic.  With all the research that is happening plus new products becoming available a deeper exploration is advised. This course has three evening online sessions plus a hands on day. We start with some ancient history, through Traditional Chinese Medicine, right up to the latest published papers. Together, we look at the active ingredients and how they function. Then we examine the extraction process and make several types of formulations.

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Master Mushroom Workshop

  • Master of Mushrooms Workshop

    This 16 week Zoom class touches on all things mushroom. We delve into whether or not you should chose to eat a mushroom, how to safely identify the mushrooms you pick and familiarize yourselves with the vast array of what is out there AND figure ways to sort them all out when all the mushroom names are changing.

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