Mushrooms provide food for many species.

Look-alikes provide an opportunity for more careful nature observation.

Mycology’s impact on how I see common images in a new way.

With the use of a balloon, toilet paper and water, it’s easy to demonstrate how amanita mushrooms grow.

A mushroom foray is typically a combination of collection and identification, lectures and educational programs, mushroom tasting and fun events. Clark Rogerson established the event I attended this past weekend. I never knew him, but am grateful to those he taught, who now teach me.