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Join us for one of the most popular and timeless wintertopics in natural history: edible mushrooms. If you’ve ever been stopped on ahike by a curious-looking mushroom and wondered, “Could I eat that?” thispresentation is for you. The forests, grasslands, and woodlands of SonomaCounty host about 3,000 species of mushrooms, half of which are edible. Localmushroom hunter, Darvin DeShazer, will take us on a visual journey through someof his favorite local fungi fares and even offer some hints on where to findthem
NOTE: No mushroom should be eaten unless it can first bepositively identified as edible. Successful identification of mushroomsrequires practice and expertise beyond this presentation.
Darvin DeShazer is a retired science teacher with fortyyears of mushroom hunting. He is one the co-founders of SOMA (Sonoma CountyMycological Association) and creator of SOMA Camp, which is the fund raiser forhis scholarship program. His love for hunting mushrooms has resulted in over10,000 color photos of fungi on Mushroom Observer and iNaturalist andcontributed to the popular book 100 Edible Mushrooms.
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Location:
Laguna De Santa Rosa Foundation
900 Sanford Road
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
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