Mushroom Forage Workshop

Foraging Workshop – Mushrooms

Hosted by EMCS (Edward Milne Community School)

A day to explore the wonderful variety of fungi on the Wild West Coast! Autumn is near approaching and with it comes the meaty and mystical mushrooms. Join Nature’s Chef, Tom Kral for a day of ‘mushroom fever’. He will be sharing his skills in safely identifying, sustainable gathering, preserving and cooking. Learn the best local edible varieties and medicinal conks. These gifts from nature support our immune system and allow us to connect with the earth, understand how you extract their potent powers. To the addition of our workshop there will be some samples of fungi delectables including a mushroom tea.

What we’ll cover;

• How to safely identify
• Where to find mushrooms
• Understanding mushroom families
• Reading forest ecology
• Preserving methods
• Preparing mushrooms so they are delicious
• Medicinal mushrooms
• Medicine extracting

This is a introduction to wild mushroom foraging, we will not be harvesting mushrooms with our time, but fresh specimens will be brought to view, and potentially find some fungi in the field that we are at. I’ll as well be sharing my favourite recipes with you, and how to introduce them to your kitchen.

*Foraged snack & tea offered in the workshop. Bring a camp chair, water, tea, snacks or a meal if you feel you need more for our time. Dress for the weather, we are outside. Bring a note pad.  

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