A wild edible mushroom workshop is offered from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Northland Arboretum. Presenters are Nich and Sarah Jordan.
Cost to attend is $35 per person for Northland Arboretum members and $45 per person for non-members.
Participants are asked to bring snacks, a bag lunch, camera, notebook, mosquito-proof clothing and mushrooms you are curious about or just want to share.
This workshop is designed to help people develop the skills and confidence to begin collecting, identifying and safely eating wild edible mushrooms.
Activities will include a photo presentation of edible Midwest mushrooms, practice identification with fresh specimens and a mushroom foray in the woods of the Arb.
The class will end the day learning basic mushroom culinary techniques, cooking edible mushroom pizzas together and sampling the creations.
Edibility guidelines, cautions and other pointers will be provided for each “form group” of mushrooms with emphasis on the most common, delicious and readily identifiable mushrooms found in the Midwest.
Dozens of species of edible, inedible and poisonous mushrooms will be on display.
The Jordans are knowledgeable and enthusiastic collectors and cultivators of edible fungi. They have mushroomed everywhere from the rainforests of Hawaii to the mountains of Pacific Northwest but are most impressed by the diversity and abundance of mushrooms in the Midwest field, forest and lawn.
For more information visit the instructors’ Edible Mushroom website at www.mycomagnet.com.
The recommended field guide is “North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi” by Orson K. Miller and Hope Miller, 2006.
RSVP is requested to the Arboretum by phone 829-8770 or email arboretum@brainerd.net. Walk-ins welcome if there is room.
