Fall Mushroom Workshop

Fall Mushrooms.

Lots of mushrooms like the cool evenings of fall, some even wait for a bit of frost before popping up. Depending on the tone of the season some fall mushrooms start showing in late August and can carry on through October some years. Who they are, where you find them is what this workshop is about. Plus, fall mushrooms give us the opportunity to fill our larders and our souls with enough mushroom to last until the morels show up in spring.

The morning starts out with:

08:30 - Arrival.

09:00 – Brief introduction to mushrooms and mushroom ID basics.

10:30 – A look at fall mushroom you can encounter with an in depth look at edible mushrooms and how to store them.

12:00 – Lunch: Mushroom soup, Mushroom main and a Mushroom Dessert.

13:00 – Two hours of foraging for Honey’s, hedgehogs  and other fall mushrooms.

15:00 – Sorting out the finds and looking at identification features, discussing the edible, the poisonous and the medicinal.

16:30 – Cook and taste of our foraged fall mushrooms.

17:30 - Wind up and back slapping…

Included: Refreshments, mushroom lunch, mushroom knowledge, dirty hands. Lunch will be gluten-free and omnivorous. If that doesn't suit you, bring your own lunch.

Date and location to be announced.

Things to bring: Assorted clothing layers for all eventualities, hat, sun screen, bug dope, sturdy boots or shoes (we may hit some wet spots.), a good knife in a safe sheath, a loupe or magnifier if you have one, a basket or bucket, mushroom field guides (Should include Mushrooms of Western Canada). Any mushrooms you need help identifying.

Things to buy on site: Mushrooms of Western Canada, other field guides.