When: Wednesday December 16 @ 7pm
On Dec 10 I hosted a 1hr talk (link) with a really basic overview on how cultivation works. Now that I’ve poured some agar plates and cleaned up my lab, I will share some of the projects I’m getting started.
Recording Here
In my intro talk, we discuss 10 of some of the most popular mushrooms for beginner. Here is another group of mushrooms that are quite distinct and should be relatively easy to recognize.
Here is.a recording of the Intro to Mushrooms talk from Mar 23.
Many mushroom hunters are quite secretive about their spots. This is because once you find an area that produces a large number of mushrooms, it may continue producing for years. I don’t have secret spots. You can see everywhere I go right here. I do enjoy exploring though. Here I share some of the tools…
This is a simplified talk on some interesting mushrooms we can find around the Pacific Northwest.
Bring on the morels! Low-elevation morels have been popping around the Pacific Northwest since early April however it’s still early season for much of the region or even possibly still covered with snow. Most of the mushrooms people are finding in the Salish Sea region are landscape morels or Morchella importuna. This are dark, conic-shaped…
The process is extracting and analyzing DNA from mushrooms is a lot easier than you might think. Here is a very basic overview of the process Extract DNA from your tissue Select a very specific region to copy Make millions of copies Send those copies to a lab for sequencing Search for that DNA sequence…