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We're resuming club activities by teleconference, at 7 pm. Topics include morel identification. Members have been sent log-in details by email, or see the notice in the Members Forum.

Topics will include mushroom identification, updates on morel the morel season, and a Q&A period. Details for joining the call are in the Members Forum.

  Like everyone else, we're adapting to pandemic times. Here's the plan for our two-day mushroom show.

Like everyone else, we're adapting to pandemic times. Here's the plan for our two-day mushroom show.

Forager, chef and author Zachary Mazi will be our Zoom guest speaker at 7 pm, Nov. 12. He'll focus on the wild edibles of northern Thailand, the culture of foraging and cooking, and reports of his own discoveries while hiking that mountainous, forested region. His background includes earth sciences, classic training in French cuisine, Pacific Northwest cuisine, and exploration of the culinary and medicinal uses of mushrooms. You can find more about him at www.TheFoodBender.com. Details of the Zoom meeting…

If you don't know about Cordyceps already, you are in for a treat at our December meeting. This is the genus of fungi that is most famous for infecting insects, hijacking their nervous system, and taking their new host for a drive. Oh, and then the mushroom sprouts out of their bodies. Richard Tehan has all the photos. He is a graduate student at Oregon State who somehow maneuvered his way into studying exactly this unusual fungal family. His topic:…

Insert clever mycelium metaphor here. For our January meeting, via Zoom, we're going to hear about, and talk about, making connections across the sprawling world of mycology. Our speaker will be Melodie Gates, treasurer of the North American Mycological Association, and a longtime member of the South Sound Mushroom Club. Her topic:  the benefits of joining NAMA, an organization that brings together professional and amateur mycologists and affiliated mycological societies across the continent. Building on that outreach theme, we'll also explore…