To make sure you're prepared for the Spring Kings and then all the boletes that follow, our April 8 speaker will be Daniel Winkler. He wears a lot of hats -- he created the familiar Northwest edible mushroom laminated folder, and he runs MushRoaming, an eco-adventure business. He will talk about Boletes of the Pacific Northwest, and about new training tools called MycoCard. Zoom credentials for the meeting are available to KPMS members.    

Calling all Citizen Scientists -- Lauren Re, of the South Sound Mushroom Club, will be our Zoom guest on   Thursday, May 13, at 7 pm. She'll discuss research projects in mushroom diversity that we can each contribute to, just by reporting our interesting finds. The Zoom link and credentials are in the Members Forum.  

If you're into mushroom dyes, you know about Alissa Allen. If you don't know about Alissa, come to our annual KPMS member picnic prepared to be amazed. All around us are humble mushrooms and lichens that can turn wool and silk into bright purple, green, gold, rose, even neon yellow. Alissa, a KPMS member, the founder of Mycopigments, teaches mushroom identification and dyeing. She'll show us how, guide us through some options, and send each participant home with a fresh-dyed…

We're thrilled to offer, for our September meeting, a live Zoom presentation by Dr. Suzanne Simard, a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia. She is the researcher figuring out how trees communicate and care for each other, with fungal collaborators. She has a famous TED talk and her new book, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, is a bestseller. We hope you'll join us for her insights. Here is the Zoom link,…

We're organizing two member forays this Saturday, Oct. 9, at Green Mountain, west of Bremerton. Our Green Mountain forays are great introductions to our local habitat and species, so we've taken steps with the DNR to make sure we can continue to offer them despite the pandemic. Members can find the details here.

Just in time for the October flush of mushrooms all over the Northwest, we have a new speaker for this month's general meeting, and she'll be talking about Mushroom Identification, a topic near to all our hearts. Leah Bendlin is a Portland-based mushroom and community science enthusiast. She'll join us Thursday, Oct. 14, at 7 pm via Zoom. She'll cover the basics of mushroom identification for beginners, including mushrooms' physical features, lifestyles and ecology. Members can learn more about the…

For our November general meeting, via Zoom, we'll hear about psychedelic mushrooms, the state of research and the prospects for therapy, from  Dr. Sandeep Nayak, a clinical psychiatrist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research. Here's the Zoom link:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84106102951?pwd=LzBmc1hSV1FPUHpFcHZsSWQvUlJvUT09 If you are prompted for credentials, the Meeting ID is 841 0610 2951 and the Passcode is 829270 .

Fungi are hungry, and they can evolve to consume all sorts of compounds that are usually hard to digest -- including toxic wastes. Jack Johnson, a molecular mycologist and community scientist, will talk about this fungal feature on Thursday, Dec. 9, at 7 pm. He'll discuss the ecology, history and industry of what's called bioremediation. He's a member of the South Sound Mushroom Club and lives in the Olympia area. To join our December meeting, here are the Zoom credentials:…