Mushroom Foray
SKU:
$30.00
$0.00 - $30.00
per item
Join us for a Mushroom Foray at the Yew Mountain Center on July 20th!
Begin your day with a guided Mushroom Foray through the Botanical Sanctuary led by Mycol Stevens.
- Participate in a group sort and identification session.
- Continue with a wild sampling session to taste the edible harvest.
- Help inoculate logs to grow shiitake mushrooms
- Enjoy a delicious mushroom-themed dinner.
- End the evening with a BYOI (Instrument) Campfire Music Jam. 7pm -9:30 pm
Your contribution of $15 will help make the event a success!
Enjoy the delicious mushroom-themed dinner for $15.
Don't miss this fun-filled day of exploration, learning, and music!
Date: July 20, 2024
Location: The Yew Mountain Center
Time: 1:00 PM - 7:00 PM Saturday
Why participate?
Enhance your knowledge of fungi through hands-on identification and sorting sessions. Experience the thrill of discovering wild mushrooms in their natural habitat. Gain practical knowledge from a Shiitake log demonstration, useful for anyone interested in growing their own mushrooms. Connect with fellow nature enthusiasts and share your passion for mycology.
Where will you be?
You will be joining us at a 500-Acre Botanical Sanctuary called the Yew Mountain Center. We are the location of the West Virginia Forest Farming Initiative, which fosters collaboration in the Appalachian region for the emerging Non-Timber Forest Product (NTFP) industry. YMC is an educational center for regenerative land management and sustainable income from the woods.
About Your Guide Mycol Stevens:
Mycol Stevens will be guiding us to share and learn together the great diversity of our fungal friends. Mycol first started studying mushrooms when he was blown away at mushroom club meetings in Washington state Olympic Peninsula mushroom club back in 1992. Before then, his Polish uncle would always gift his family jars of wild mushrooms that he and his mom relished. Since first getting overwhelmed by this brave new world in Washington, Mycol has studied from Ohio, to western NC, to Florida, Colorado, Mexico, Costa Rica, as well Botswana and S. Africa and here in the Virginia's too!
Mycol has worked as a botanist and has taught ethnobotany and mycology for many years. His fungal studies are as citizen scientist amateur. He estimates having eaten around 200 species and hasn't died yet! Let's have some fun and learn together. Hopefully we will have a successful foray and also cook up some delicacies from the forest. Mycol will also do a demonstration of cultivating shiitake and oyster mushrooms.
Bring instruments to play for the evening Campfire Music Jam 7 - 9:30 PM
Date: July 20, 2024
Location: The Yew Mountain Center
Time: 1:00 PM - 7:00 PM Saturday
Why participate?
Enhance your knowledge of fungi through hands-on identification and sorting sessions. Experience the thrill of discovering wild mushrooms in their natural habitat. Gain practical knowledge from a Shiitake log demonstration, useful for anyone interested in growing their own mushrooms. Connect with fellow nature enthusiasts and share your passion for mycology.
Where will you be?
You will be joining us at a 500-Acre Botanical Sanctuary called the Yew Mountain Center. We are the location of the West Virginia Forest Farming Initiative, which fosters collaboration in the Appalachian region for the emerging Non-Timber Forest Product (NTFP) industry. YMC is an educational center for regenerative land management and sustainable income from the woods.
About Your Guide Mycol Stevens:
Mycol Stevens will be guiding us to share and learn together the great diversity of our fungal friends. Mycol first started studying mushrooms when he was blown away at mushroom club meetings in Washington state Olympic Peninsula mushroom club back in 1992. Before then, his Polish uncle would always gift his family jars of wild mushrooms that he and his mom relished. Since first getting overwhelmed by this brave new world in Washington, Mycol has studied from Ohio, to western NC, to Florida, Colorado, Mexico, Costa Rica, as well Botswana and S. Africa and here in the Virginia's too!
Mycol has worked as a botanist and has taught ethnobotany and mycology for many years. His fungal studies are as citizen scientist amateur. He estimates having eaten around 200 species and hasn't died yet! Let's have some fun and learn together. Hopefully we will have a successful foray and also cook up some delicacies from the forest. Mycol will also do a demonstration of cultivating shiitake and oyster mushrooms.
Bring instruments to play for the evening Campfire Music Jam 7 - 9:30 PM