2019/2020 Season
The April and May meetings for 2020 have been canceled due to the COVID-19 Pandemic/Shelter In Place Orders. Until we meet again, stay safe and healthy.
March 2020 MCMC Monthly Meeting
Guest Speaker: Bob Rhoades
Meeting Date: Monday, March 9, 2020
Time: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Venue: Ford House, 45035 Main Street, Mendocino
Note: We will be taking Bob out to dinner after the meeting. All are welcome to join us. Details for location at the meeting.
General Club meeting - All are welcome.
We’ll socialize and talk mushrooms. If anyone finds any mushrooms, please bring them for show and tell. If you have mushroom books, bring them to help with identification.
Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club Presents
Bob Rhoades - Mushroom Papermaking From grown and gathered plants to monotypes and handmade paper, some of my processes and joys. Bob will talk about his most recent work in monotypes and papermaking from local materials, including mushrooms. He will bring a few pieces of his mushroom paper from several years ago to pass around.
Bob Rhoades was born in Cleveland, Ohio where he began his art training at the Cleveland Museum of Art youth classes. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970 from Duke University, then took his first teaching position at Foothill High School in Bakersfield. Rhoades earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1980 at the University of New Mexico. He assumed the position of art department coordinator for the College of the Redwoods, Mendocino Coast in 1982. Bob has taught continuously since 1970 in schools throughout California retiring from full-time teaching in 2012
Bob Rhoades has studied eastern papermaking in Kochi, Japan and non-toxic printmaking techniques in Grand Prairie, Alberta, Canada. At CR he has taught Painting, Color and Design, Printmaking, Paper-making, Sculpture, Drawing, Illustration and Art Appreciation. He has exhibited extensively in the U.S. and lectured in London at the Chelsea School of Art and in Miasa Japan at the Bunka Center. In recent years he has lectured to small groups in major museums throughout western Europe.
His work in paper making began with a CAA workshop led by Don Farnsworth in 1985 which eventually led him to study paper making on the island of Shikoku, Japan and to the south of France along the Dordogne and in Provence. Since retiring from college his paper making has consisted mainly of working with fibers he grows or in more rare examples collects, such as mushrooms.
For information on travel/painting trips in Europe and other examples of Rhoades art visit creekwood studios.com
Time: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Venue: Ford House, 45035 Main Street, Mendocino
Note: We will be taking Bob out to dinner after the meeting. All are welcome to join us. Details for location at the meeting.
General Club meeting - All are welcome.
We’ll socialize and talk mushrooms. If anyone finds any mushrooms, please bring them for show and tell. If you have mushroom books, bring them to help with identification.
Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club Presents
Bob Rhoades - Mushroom Papermaking From grown and gathered plants to monotypes and handmade paper, some of my processes and joys. Bob will talk about his most recent work in monotypes and papermaking from local materials, including mushrooms. He will bring a few pieces of his mushroom paper from several years ago to pass around.
Bob Rhoades was born in Cleveland, Ohio where he began his art training at the Cleveland Museum of Art youth classes. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970 from Duke University, then took his first teaching position at Foothill High School in Bakersfield. Rhoades earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1980 at the University of New Mexico. He assumed the position of art department coordinator for the College of the Redwoods, Mendocino Coast in 1982. Bob has taught continuously since 1970 in schools throughout California retiring from full-time teaching in 2012
Bob Rhoades has studied eastern papermaking in Kochi, Japan and non-toxic printmaking techniques in Grand Prairie, Alberta, Canada. At CR he has taught Painting, Color and Design, Printmaking, Paper-making, Sculpture, Drawing, Illustration and Art Appreciation. He has exhibited extensively in the U.S. and lectured in London at the Chelsea School of Art and in Miasa Japan at the Bunka Center. In recent years he has lectured to small groups in major museums throughout western Europe.
His work in paper making began with a CAA workshop led by Don Farnsworth in 1985 which eventually led him to study paper making on the island of Shikoku, Japan and to the south of France along the Dordogne and in Provence. Since retiring from college his paper making has consisted mainly of working with fibers he grows or in more rare examples collects, such as mushrooms.
For information on travel/painting trips in Europe and other examples of Rhoades art visit creekwood studios.com
February 2020 MCMC Monthly Meeting
Guest Speaker: Megan Isaacs
Meeting Date: Monday, February 10, 2020
Time: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Venue: Ford House, 45035 Main Street, Mendocino
Note: We will be taking Megan out to dinner after the meeting. All are welcome to join us. Details for location at the meeting.
General Club meeting - All are welcome.
We’ll socialize and talk mushrooms. If anyone finds any mushrooms, please bring them for show and tell. If you have mushroom books, bring them to help with identification.
Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club Presents
Megan Isaacs - direct shadowing microscopy to view and analyze soil organisms, including fungi
Megan Isaacs is a farmer, fungi enthusiast, and student of Dr. Elaine Ingham’s Soil Food Web Foundation Course focused on soil microbiology. She and her partner Cameron are currently learning to use microscopy techniques to observe, grow and apply soil microorganisms to their farm Rhizing Ground in Caspar Mendocino.
Her talk will be focused on microorganisms of the soil food web featuring soil fungi and their spores. It will conclude with a live microscope demonstration of soil samples from her farm. Attendees are welcome to bring their own soil samples, learn how to prepare slides and stay late (post lecture/demo) to view the microbes within!
To collect and bring a sample, use a clean apple corer to take a core sample from the top 3 inches of desired location. Place sample in a clean plastic bag and bring it to lecture.
**Disclaimer** Megan is a current student of Elaine Ingham’s Soil Food Web Foundation Course and not a professional consultant, mycologist or microbiologist. Her lecture is based upon her own personal farming experience and the research/findings she has learned from Dr. Elaine Ingham’s Soil Food Web course.
Time: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Venue: Ford House, 45035 Main Street, Mendocino
Note: We will be taking Megan out to dinner after the meeting. All are welcome to join us. Details for location at the meeting.
General Club meeting - All are welcome.
We’ll socialize and talk mushrooms. If anyone finds any mushrooms, please bring them for show and tell. If you have mushroom books, bring them to help with identification.
Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club Presents
Megan Isaacs - direct shadowing microscopy to view and analyze soil organisms, including fungi
Megan Isaacs is a farmer, fungi enthusiast, and student of Dr. Elaine Ingham’s Soil Food Web Foundation Course focused on soil microbiology. She and her partner Cameron are currently learning to use microscopy techniques to observe, grow and apply soil microorganisms to their farm Rhizing Ground in Caspar Mendocino.
Her talk will be focused on microorganisms of the soil food web featuring soil fungi and their spores. It will conclude with a live microscope demonstration of soil samples from her farm. Attendees are welcome to bring their own soil samples, learn how to prepare slides and stay late (post lecture/demo) to view the microbes within!
To collect and bring a sample, use a clean apple corer to take a core sample from the top 3 inches of desired location. Place sample in a clean plastic bag and bring it to lecture.
**Disclaimer** Megan is a current student of Elaine Ingham’s Soil Food Web Foundation Course and not a professional consultant, mycologist or microbiologist. Her lecture is based upon her own personal farming experience and the research/findings she has learned from Dr. Elaine Ingham’s Soil Food Web course.
Members-Only Foray Event
Date: Saturday, January 25, 2020
Time: 8:00 am to 9:00 pm
Venue: TBD
This is a special, all-day foray event for paid members of the Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club. The day consists of a foray, potluck dinner and guest speaker, Chad Hyatt, who will be doing a cooking demonstration.
Paid members will be emailed an invitation to participate on January 20..
Make sure you have a valid membership before January 20 to participate in this event. Pay your dues on the website via Paypal, send a check (address on the website) or do it in person at a meeting.
There will be no additional cost to participate.
Participants must have a valid permit for Jackson Demonstration State Forest.
Time: 8:00 am to 9:00 pm
Venue: TBD
This is a special, all-day foray event for paid members of the Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club. The day consists of a foray, potluck dinner and guest speaker, Chad Hyatt, who will be doing a cooking demonstration.
Paid members will be emailed an invitation to participate on January 20..
Make sure you have a valid membership before January 20 to participate in this event. Pay your dues on the website via Paypal, send a check (address on the website) or do it in person at a meeting.
There will be no additional cost to participate.
Participants must have a valid permit for Jackson Demonstration State Forest.
Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club & Santa Cruz Fungus Federation Present
Eric Schramm: Connections
Meeting Date: Friday, January 24, 2020
Time: 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Venue: Albion Field Station
34000 Albion Street
Albion, CA 95410
Albion Field Station No Pet Policy
We have a NO PETS POLICY. Please make arrangements for the care of your pet before coming to Albion.
Note: Parking is extremely limited down at the filed station. Please carpool or consider parking at the Albion store and joining up with others to carpool down to the station.
Eric Schramm, dubbed “Mister Mushroom,” equips chefs across the county with a culinary arsenal for outstanding cuisine through his business, Mendocino Mushrooms. His extensive knowledge of fungi is impressive. “Mushrooms teach us connection,” he says. “They touch every aspect of our lives whether we know it or not.” “Every living thing on the face of this Earth is connected,” he adds. “Everything has a job, everything has a purpose, and everything is intertwined. Over the past 35 years, these mushrooms have taken me on this journey."
Time: 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Venue: Albion Field Station
34000 Albion Street
Albion, CA 95410
Albion Field Station No Pet Policy
We have a NO PETS POLICY. Please make arrangements for the care of your pet before coming to Albion.
Note: Parking is extremely limited down at the filed station. Please carpool or consider parking at the Albion store and joining up with others to carpool down to the station.
Eric Schramm, dubbed “Mister Mushroom,” equips chefs across the county with a culinary arsenal for outstanding cuisine through his business, Mendocino Mushrooms. His extensive knowledge of fungi is impressive. “Mushrooms teach us connection,” he says. “They touch every aspect of our lives whether we know it or not.” “Every living thing on the face of this Earth is connected,” he adds. “Everything has a job, everything has a purpose, and everything is intertwined. Over the past 35 years, these mushrooms have taken me on this journey."
Foray Event - Usal Redwood Forest
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Date: Thursday, January 23, 2020
Time: 10:00 am to 3:00 pm Venue: Usal Redwood Forest - meet in Fort Bragg to carpool MCMC Member Gabrielle Levine has arranged for a special foray at Usal Redwood Forest on Thursday January 23. Plan to meet in Fort Bragg at 10:00 at RFFI headquarters, 90 W. Redwood Ave, to carpool. A lot of their forestry staff will be joining us, so it should be a great event. It takes an hour or so to get to the woods from Fort Bragg. The approximate timeline for the foray is from 10:00 to 3:00 from Fort Bragg. Email Gabrielle to let her know you're coming. Heavy rains will cancel the event. |
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January 2020 MCMC Monthly Meeting
Guest Speaker: Eric Schramm
Meeting Date: Monday, January 13, 2020
Time: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Venue: Ford House, 45035 Main Street, Mendocino
General Club meeting - All are welcome.
We’ll socialize and talk mushrooms. If anyone finds any mushrooms, please bring them for show and tell. If you have mushroom books, bring them to help with identification.
Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club Presents
Eric Schramm - Lessons from the forest. Eric's lifetime of experience with the forest and the mushroom hunting community give him a unique perspective which he will share with us.
Eric Schramm, dubbed “Mister Mushroom,” equips chefs across the county with a culinary arsenal for outstanding cuisine through his business, Mendocino Mushrooms. His extensive knowledge of fungi is impressive. “Mushrooms teach us connection,” he says. “They touch every aspect of our lives whether we know it or not.” “Every living thing on the face of this Earth is connected,” he adds. “Everything has a job, everything has a purpose, and everything is intertwined. Over the past 35 years, these mushrooms have taken me on this journey.”
Time: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Venue: Ford House, 45035 Main Street, Mendocino
General Club meeting - All are welcome.
We’ll socialize and talk mushrooms. If anyone finds any mushrooms, please bring them for show and tell. If you have mushroom books, bring them to help with identification.
Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club Presents
Eric Schramm - Lessons from the forest. Eric's lifetime of experience with the forest and the mushroom hunting community give him a unique perspective which he will share with us.
Eric Schramm, dubbed “Mister Mushroom,” equips chefs across the county with a culinary arsenal for outstanding cuisine through his business, Mendocino Mushrooms. His extensive knowledge of fungi is impressive. “Mushrooms teach us connection,” he says. “They touch every aspect of our lives whether we know it or not.” “Every living thing on the face of this Earth is connected,” he adds. “Everything has a job, everything has a purpose, and everything is intertwined. Over the past 35 years, these mushrooms have taken me on this journey.”
December 2019 MCMC Monthly Meeting
Guest Speaker: Alexander (Sasha) Viazmensky
Meeting Date: Monday, December 9, 2019
Time: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Venue: Ford House, 45035 Main Street, Mendocino
Note: We will be taking Sasha out to dinner after the meeting. All are welcome to join us. Details for location at the meeting.
General Club meeting - All are welcome.
We’ll socialize and talk mushrooms. If anyone finds any mushrooms, please bring them for show and tell. If you have mushroom books, bring them to help with identification.
Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club Presents
Alexander (Sasha) Viazmensky - Mushroom Foraging in Russia
Alexander (Sasha) Viazmensky is the artist famous for his botanical watercolors.
He resides in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Time: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Venue: Ford House, 45035 Main Street, Mendocino
Note: We will be taking Sasha out to dinner after the meeting. All are welcome to join us. Details for location at the meeting.
General Club meeting - All are welcome.
We’ll socialize and talk mushrooms. If anyone finds any mushrooms, please bring them for show and tell. If you have mushroom books, bring them to help with identification.
Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club Presents
Alexander (Sasha) Viazmensky - Mushroom Foraging in Russia
Alexander (Sasha) Viazmensky is the artist famous for his botanical watercolors.
He resides in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Specimen Collection Foray for Botanical Art Workshop
Date: Friday , December 6, 2019
Time: meet-up 9:45; 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Venue: TBD - Meet outside the Ford House Museum, 45035 Main Street, Mendocino
The purpose of this foray is to find specimens for the Botanical Art Workshop on Dec 7 & 8.
Participants of the Botanical Art Workshop and anyone else that would like to join in are welcome. The plan is to meet up in front of the Ford House Museum at 9:45, determine who does/doesn't have a JDSF permit, then choose our locations and head out into the woods.
If you have a permit for Jackson Demonstration State Forest, bring it. We have options for people without a permit.
See you there, rain or shine.
Time: meet-up 9:45; 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Venue: TBD - Meet outside the Ford House Museum, 45035 Main Street, Mendocino
The purpose of this foray is to find specimens for the Botanical Art Workshop on Dec 7 & 8.
Participants of the Botanical Art Workshop and anyone else that would like to join in are welcome. The plan is to meet up in front of the Ford House Museum at 9:45, determine who does/doesn't have a JDSF permit, then choose our locations and head out into the woods.
If you have a permit for Jackson Demonstration State Forest, bring it. We have options for people without a permit.
See you there, rain or shine.
Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club & Santa Cruz Fungus Federation Present
Daniel Winkler: Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of the West Coast
Meeting Date: Friday, Dec 6, 2019
Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Venue: Albion Field Station
34000 Albion Street
Albion, CA 95410
Albion Field Station No Pet Policy
We have a NO PETS POLICY. Please make arrangements for the care of your pet before coming to Albion.
Note: Parking is extremely limited down at the filed station. Please carpool or consider parking at the Albion store and joining up with others to carpool down to the station.
Daniel is the author of field guides to Edible Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest and California (both Harbour Publishing, 2011 and 2012), Amazon Mushrooms (2014, co-authored) and brand a new "Field guide to Medicinal Mushrooms of North America with Robert Rogers". He grew up collecting and eating wild mushrooms in the Alps and has been foraging for over 20 years in the PNW and beyond, sharing his enthusiasm as a mushroom educator and guide and as PSMS vice-president. In his presentations he is combining his stunning photography with an often funny blend of entertaining stories and scientific information; he likes to refer to as "edutainment". Having been in love with mushrooms since early childhood Daniel managed to bend his career as an ecologist and geographer focused on High Asia towards researching rural Tibet's enormous fungal economy. His Cordyceps research has been featured in The Economist, National Geographic, New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, BBC World Service etc. In the last decade Daniel started exploring neotropical fungi. With his travel agency MushRoaming Daniel is organizing mushroom focused eco-adventures to Tibet, Bhutan, China, the Amazon, Colombia, the Austrian Alps and the Pacific Northwest since 2007 [www.mushroaming.com].
Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Venue: Albion Field Station
34000 Albion Street
Albion, CA 95410
Albion Field Station No Pet Policy
We have a NO PETS POLICY. Please make arrangements for the care of your pet before coming to Albion.
Note: Parking is extremely limited down at the filed station. Please carpool or consider parking at the Albion store and joining up with others to carpool down to the station.
Daniel is the author of field guides to Edible Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest and California (both Harbour Publishing, 2011 and 2012), Amazon Mushrooms (2014, co-authored) and brand a new "Field guide to Medicinal Mushrooms of North America with Robert Rogers". He grew up collecting and eating wild mushrooms in the Alps and has been foraging for over 20 years in the PNW and beyond, sharing his enthusiasm as a mushroom educator and guide and as PSMS vice-president. In his presentations he is combining his stunning photography with an often funny blend of entertaining stories and scientific information; he likes to refer to as "edutainment". Having been in love with mushrooms since early childhood Daniel managed to bend his career as an ecologist and geographer focused on High Asia towards researching rural Tibet's enormous fungal economy. His Cordyceps research has been featured in The Economist, National Geographic, New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, BBC World Service etc. In the last decade Daniel started exploring neotropical fungi. With his travel agency MushRoaming Daniel is organizing mushroom focused eco-adventures to Tibet, Bhutan, China, the Amazon, Colombia, the Austrian Alps and the Pacific Northwest since 2007 [www.mushroaming.com].
Members-Only Foray Event
Date: Saturday, December 7, 2019
Time: 8:00 am to 9:00 pm
Venue: TBD
This is a special, all-day foray event for paid members of the Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club.
Paid members will be emailed an invitation to participate on December 2.
Make sure you have a valid membership before December 2 to participate in this event. Pay your dues on the website via Paypal, send a check (address on the website) or do it in person at a meeting.
There will be no additional cost to participate.
Participants must have a valid permit for Jackson Demonstration State Forest.
Time: 8:00 am to 9:00 pm
Venue: TBD
This is a special, all-day foray event for paid members of the Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club.
Paid members will be emailed an invitation to participate on December 2.
Make sure you have a valid membership before December 2 to participate in this event. Pay your dues on the website via Paypal, send a check (address on the website) or do it in person at a meeting.
There will be no additional cost to participate.
Participants must have a valid permit for Jackson Demonstration State Forest.
Mushroom Botanical Art Class - Alexander Viazmensky
Dates: Saturday & Sunday, December 7 and 8, 2019
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Venue: Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
World-class botanical illustrator Alexander (Sasha) Viazmensky is traveling from his home in St. Petersburg, Russia to teach a botanical art class on the Mendocino Coast! This two-day workshop is co-sponsored by the Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club and Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens. Sasha enjoys working with beginners as well as with experienced artists to make “Mushroom Portraits in Watercolor”. All levels of experience are welcome to enroll. There will be an optional forage with the Mushroom Club on Friday, December 6 to gather specimens for the class (free with cost of the workshop).
Workshop Registration:
Class size is limited! Class cost is $240 for members; $280 for non-members (includes Gardens admission for both days). Payment is due upon sign-up. Please note, all workshop fees are non-refundable unless the workshop has been canceled or rescheduled by the Gardens. Sign up by phoning 707-964-4352 ext. 16 or stop by The Garden Store at Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens.
See the event page, Mushroom Botanical Art, for more detailedinformation.
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Venue: Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
World-class botanical illustrator Alexander (Sasha) Viazmensky is traveling from his home in St. Petersburg, Russia to teach a botanical art class on the Mendocino Coast! This two-day workshop is co-sponsored by the Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club and Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens. Sasha enjoys working with beginners as well as with experienced artists to make “Mushroom Portraits in Watercolor”. All levels of experience are welcome to enroll. There will be an optional forage with the Mushroom Club on Friday, December 6 to gather specimens for the class (free with cost of the workshop).
Workshop Registration:
Class size is limited! Class cost is $240 for members; $280 for non-members (includes Gardens admission for both days). Payment is due upon sign-up. Please note, all workshop fees are non-refundable unless the workshop has been canceled or rescheduled by the Gardens. Sign up by phoning 707-964-4352 ext. 16 or stop by The Garden Store at Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens.
See the event page, Mushroom Botanical Art, for more detailedinformation.
November 2019 MCMC Monthly Meeting
Guest Speaker: Christian Schwarz
Meeting Date: Monday, November 11, 2019
Time: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Venue: Ford House, 45035 Main Street, Mendocino
Note: We will be taking Christian out to dinner after the meeting. All are welcome to join us. Details for location at the meeting.
General Club meeting - All are welcome.
We’ll socialize and talk mushrooms. If anyone finds any mushrooms, please bring them for show and tell. If you have mushroom books, bring them to help with identification.
Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club Presents
Christian Schwarz: The Most Dangerous Fungi in the World: A Mycological Study in Risk Assessment
As mushroomers, we spend a lot of time learning how to avoid deadly mushrooms when we are picking for the table.
And generally, we're very good at it! We go on picking merrily and enjoying our time with each other and the forest around us. But what if our efforts need to be re-examined, broadened, and refocused? We'll use the world of fungi as a lens to explore how our intuitions about risk and danger should adapt in a world that is rapidly changing.
Christian Schwarz is a naturalist currently living in Santa Cruz, the land of milk (caps) and honey (mushrooms). He studied Ecology and Evolution at UCSC, and now spends his time photographing, teaching about, collecting, and researching macrofungi. He is coauthor of Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast. Fungi satisfy his curiosity with their seemingly endless forms – from the grotesque to the bizarre to the sublimely beautiful. Besides dabbling in mushroom taxonomy, he loves fish, plants, nudibranchs, moths, and dragonflies. He is and passionate about citizen science, especially iNaturalist.
Time: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Venue: Ford House, 45035 Main Street, Mendocino
Note: We will be taking Christian out to dinner after the meeting. All are welcome to join us. Details for location at the meeting.
General Club meeting - All are welcome.
We’ll socialize and talk mushrooms. If anyone finds any mushrooms, please bring them for show and tell. If you have mushroom books, bring them to help with identification.
Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club Presents
Christian Schwarz: The Most Dangerous Fungi in the World: A Mycological Study in Risk Assessment
As mushroomers, we spend a lot of time learning how to avoid deadly mushrooms when we are picking for the table.
And generally, we're very good at it! We go on picking merrily and enjoying our time with each other and the forest around us. But what if our efforts need to be re-examined, broadened, and refocused? We'll use the world of fungi as a lens to explore how our intuitions about risk and danger should adapt in a world that is rapidly changing.
Christian Schwarz is a naturalist currently living in Santa Cruz, the land of milk (caps) and honey (mushrooms). He studied Ecology and Evolution at UCSC, and now spends his time photographing, teaching about, collecting, and researching macrofungi. He is coauthor of Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast. Fungi satisfy his curiosity with their seemingly endless forms – from the grotesque to the bizarre to the sublimely beautiful. Besides dabbling in mushroom taxonomy, he loves fish, plants, nudibranchs, moths, and dragonflies. He is and passionate about citizen science, especially iNaturalist.
Mushroom Festival Events
Venue: Ford House, 45035 Main Street, Mendocino
Medicinal Mushrooms Talk
Saturday, Nov 9, from 2:00PM -4:00PM
The Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club presents a talk by Lisa Matthews on the Medicinal Value of Mushrooms.
Lisa's love for mushrooms grew out of a lifelong love for the natural world. Her own natural curiosity lead her to start researching what it is about mushrooms that can make them taste and smell so wonderfully different. In the process, she discovered that mushrooms have far more to offer us in terms of healing and nutrition then most of us believe, even the gourmet ones. She looks forward to sharing her fascinating discoveries with you and hopes to inspire you to get out into the woods, alone or with others, and forage for yourselves.
Mushroom Tasting Sampler
Saturday, Nov 9, from 5:00PM -7:00PM
Members and friends of the Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club are pleased to offer visitors a taste of our local, wild mushrooms. We’ll have an array of both sweet a savory treats for visitors to sample from 5:00PM-7:00PM at the Ford House Museum. Come and see how versatile and delectable mushrooms can be.
Mushroom Identification for Beginners
Sunday, Nov 10, from 11:00AM-1:00PM
Mendocino County forests are abloom with an abundance of mushrooms in the fall and winter, and knowing which ones are edible versus simply interesting takes some training. Learn the basic taxonomic identifying features that distinguish mushrooms from each other, where each unique mushroom species can be found, when they can be found, and the myths associated with them from naturalist and mycologist, Mario Abreu. Mario also offers mushroom walks and a more in-depth mushroom ID workshop at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens during the months of November and December.
Medicinal Mushrooms Talk
Saturday, Nov 9, from 2:00PM -4:00PM
The Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club presents a talk by Lisa Matthews on the Medicinal Value of Mushrooms.
Lisa's love for mushrooms grew out of a lifelong love for the natural world. Her own natural curiosity lead her to start researching what it is about mushrooms that can make them taste and smell so wonderfully different. In the process, she discovered that mushrooms have far more to offer us in terms of healing and nutrition then most of us believe, even the gourmet ones. She looks forward to sharing her fascinating discoveries with you and hopes to inspire you to get out into the woods, alone or with others, and forage for yourselves.
Mushroom Tasting Sampler
Saturday, Nov 9, from 5:00PM -7:00PM
Members and friends of the Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club are pleased to offer visitors a taste of our local, wild mushrooms. We’ll have an array of both sweet a savory treats for visitors to sample from 5:00PM-7:00PM at the Ford House Museum. Come and see how versatile and delectable mushrooms can be.
Mushroom Identification for Beginners
Sunday, Nov 10, from 11:00AM-1:00PM
Mendocino County forests are abloom with an abundance of mushrooms in the fall and winter, and knowing which ones are edible versus simply interesting takes some training. Learn the basic taxonomic identifying features that distinguish mushrooms from each other, where each unique mushroom species can be found, when they can be found, and the myths associated with them from naturalist and mycologist, Mario Abreu. Mario also offers mushroom walks and a more in-depth mushroom ID workshop at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens during the months of November and December.
2019 Continental Mycoblitz, Part 2
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Meeting Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Time: 11:00 am to 4:00 pm Venue: Ford House, 45035 Main Street, Mendocino A small group of us set out to see if we could find anything novel during the Continental Mycoblitz. Despite fairly dry conditions and many moldy and/or desiccated mushrooms, we were able to find over 20 species. We spent some time, post-foray, attempting to identify them all. A species list, as recorded and annotated by Jim Gibson (Thanks, Jim!) is available here. While the pickin’s were slim, a good time was had by all. |
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Continental Mycoblitz 2019
1. Amanita augusta 2. Amanita calyptroderma 3. Amanita gemmata *(we found several of these but never ID'd them) 4. Amanita pachycolea *(constricta) 5. Annulohypoxylon thouarsianum - Carbon Balls 6. Cantharellus formosus 7. Cantharellus subalbidus 8. Fistulina hepatica 9. Fomitopsis pinicola - Red Belted conk 10. Gomphus clavatus 11. Hydnellum sp. 12. Lactarius spp. 13. Lactarius arrillacei var. megacarpus (grows under Live oaks occasionally Tan Oaks... I think this should be L. kauffmanii due to habitat; see comments in MRC p.263.) |
14. Leucoagericus rubrotinctus/Lepiota cristata
15. Nidula sp. 16. Phaeolus schweinitzii 17. Pleurotus ostreatus -oyster mushroom 18. Pluteus exilis -deer mushrom 19. Postia sp. 20. Ramaria acrisiccescens (Ramarias are difficult but I left all as called) 21. Ramaria formosa 22. Russula spp. 23. Russula fragrantissima 24. Russula mendocinensis 25. Russula versicolor- (I don't think this was it, as it grows under Birch trees and that species doesn't grow where we were). |
October 2019 MCMC Monthly Meeting
Guest Speaker: Mike Edwards
Meeting Date: Monday, October 14, 2019
Time: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Venue: Ford House, 45035 Main Street, Mendocino
General Club meeting - All are welcome.
We’ll socialize and talk mushrooms. If anyone finds any mushrooms, please bring them for show and tell. If you have mushroom books, bring them to help with identification.
Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club Presents
Mike Edwards: Growing mushrooms using the PF-Tek cultivation method
Mike will demonstrate how he uses the PF-Tek method to grow mushrooms.
Time: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Venue: Ford House, 45035 Main Street, Mendocino
General Club meeting - All are welcome.
We’ll socialize and talk mushrooms. If anyone finds any mushrooms, please bring them for show and tell. If you have mushroom books, bring them to help with identification.
Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club Presents
Mike Edwards: Growing mushrooms using the PF-Tek cultivation method
Mike will demonstrate how he uses the PF-Tek method to grow mushrooms.
September 2019 MCMC Monthly Meeting
Meeting Date: Monday, September 23, 2019
Time: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Venue: Ford House, 45035 Main Street, Mendocino
General Club meeting - All are welcome.
With reports of summer fog chanterelles and boletes to whet your appetite, come back to the Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club's monthly meetings to get ready for the main mushroom season. We're planning for some great activities this year and we're starting to get requests for help with other mushroom related events, so plan to get involved to make them happen. As we did last year, we’ll socialize and talk mushrooms. If anyone finds any mushrooms, please bring them for show and tell. If you have mushroom books, bring them to help with identification.
This will be our fist meeting of the season. Meetings will continue through May of 2020.
If you'd like, you can bring a snack to share.
Time: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Venue: Ford House, 45035 Main Street, Mendocino
General Club meeting - All are welcome.
With reports of summer fog chanterelles and boletes to whet your appetite, come back to the Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club's monthly meetings to get ready for the main mushroom season. We're planning for some great activities this year and we're starting to get requests for help with other mushroom related events, so plan to get involved to make them happen. As we did last year, we’ll socialize and talk mushrooms. If anyone finds any mushrooms, please bring them for show and tell. If you have mushroom books, bring them to help with identification.
This will be our fist meeting of the season. Meetings will continue through May of 2020.
If you'd like, you can bring a snack to share.
