Registration Requirements: Preregistration required.
Recommended Audience: This program is suitable for adults.
Program Description: Bolster your foraging skills through learning as Emalee and Pete Richman of Rich Life Farm and Fungi showcase their favorite mushroom cooking techniques and recipes. We’ll touch on identification basics and key cautionary notes, ethical mushroom harvesting, how tree identification can help you find mushrooms, and how mushrooms tie into the broader ecology of the land.
We’ll be focusing our search for the top 4-5 common edible autumn species. Long-time foraging group member and mushroom enthusiast Ross Compton will help with mushroom identification on our foray into the woods.
What to bring:
- A pocket knife for harvesting mushrooms.
- A small basket, or mesh style bag to collect your food in. This prevents moisture from deteriorating the mushrooms and helps to spread their spores.
What to Expect:
- Dress for the weather, and wear long pants that are either old or resistant to getting caught by briars and burrs
- This class takes place outside and/or in a non-air conditioned barn.
- Be prepared for an outdoor class that involves off-trail hiking.
Note: Mushrooms are notoriously unpredictable. While we are heading out to search for mushrooms, their emergence depends upon rainfall before this class; we may or may not find any mushrooms.
Accessibility: We do our best to make our programs accessible to everyone when possible. If you have an accessibility question or need, please feel free to reach out to our front desk staff at (513) 831-1711.
Where to Meet: This program meets at the white Creekside Barn at our Long Branch Farm & Trails location (6926 Gaynor Rd., Goshen, OH 45122).
Cost: Member adult $15; nonmember adult $25 (includes daily admission).
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