Expired October 2023 Chapter Meeting: Introduction to Colorado Mushrooms

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Overview

Topic: Introduction to Colorado Mushrooms
Speaker: Erica Davis
Date and Time: Thursday, October 5th  at 7:15 pm (doors open at 6:45 pm for socializing)
Location–Hybrid: In person at the Church of Transfiguration & virtual attendance via Zoom

Presentation Details

As late summer moves into cooler fall, flowers are fading and our spring migrants are turning south.  As we walk in the moist forest slopes of our Evergreen World, we are quite likely to see mushrooms and other fungi poking up from the pine duff or clinging to fallen aspen and pine logs.  If you are like me, you have wondered which, if any of these mushrooms, are edible. While our next presentation will not make you a mushroom expert, it will provide you with some general ideas about edible mushrooms, and more importantly, the resources to help you learn more about mushrooms – edible or not.

Photograph of a porcini mushroom in the wild near Vail, Colorado
Porcini mushroom in the wild near Vail, Colorado. Photograph by Erica Davis and used with permission.

Our Thursday, October 5 2023 Chapter meeting presentation will be ” Introduction to Colorado Mushrooms” by Erica Davis, aka Wild Food Girl, an edible plants expert. In this presentation, we will learn about 5 major edible wild mushrooms of Colorado: porcini or king bolete (Boletus rubriceps), puffballs (various species), oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus species), wood ears (Auricularia americana), and hawk’s wings (Sarcodon imbricatus), their habitats, when to look for them, and how to identify similar-looking mushrooms to be avoided.

Photograph of a Wood Ear Mushroom growing on a log near Breckenridge Colorado
Wood Ear Mushroom near Breckenridge Colorado. Photograph by Erica Davis and used with permission.

The doors will open (and the Zoom link will be live) at 6:45 pm (NOTE: This is 15 minutes later than has been our custom! ) at Evergreen Church of the Transfiguration. The program will start around 7:15 pm with a brief business meeting where we’ll fill you in on all the new and exciting things happening with Evergreen Audubon and the Evergreen Nature Center. The program will begin after these brief announcements.

 

About the Speaker

Photograph of a Hawk Wing Mushroom in the wild.
Hawk Wing Mushroom. Photograph by Erica Davis and used with permission.

Best known as Wild Food Girl, Erica Davis teaches edible plant and mushroom classes from her home in Fairplay, Colorado. Erica started writing about her wild food adventures in 2009. She has taught classes for Colorado Mountain College and presents at plant conferences around the state and country. She holds a BA in archaeology and an MA in education and is hard at work on her first book about edible wild plants in the West. See wildfoodgirl.com for her calendar of online/in-person classes about mushrooms, wild berries, edible weeds, and nuts. Or find her on Facebook (@wildfoodgirl), Instagram (@wild.food.girl), or YouTube (@wildfoodgirl9148).

So be sure to come to the next Evergreen Audubon Chapter Meeting on Thursday, October 5, catch up with your friends and neighbors, get a good seat, and take a more detailed look at the edible mushrooms that grow here in our Evergreen World!

Zoom Meeting Details

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83158390470?pwd=YnczUHJ4WExONTU4RWNDQXZDQzhLQT09

Meeting ID: 831 5839 0470
Passcode: 030633

Dial-in according to your phone’s area code.  If you are dialing in from a Colorado phone, the number is:
+1 720 707 2699 US (Denver)
Meeting ID: 831 5839 0470
Passcode: 030633

Or find the appropriate number for your area code visit the Zoom website https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kzc31iRPZ

Venue:  

Address:
27640 CO-74, Evergreen, Colorado, 80439, United States