Foraging Wild Mushrooms at Tower Hill Botanic Garden

Event Description

Foraging Edible Wild Mushrooms
Tower Hill Botanic Garden
11 French Dr. Boylston, MA
508-869-6111 

Saturday, September 26, 9:30am-12:30pm

Member $20, Non-member $35, per class

Learn basic mushroom ID, biology and ecology, and how to hunt several easy-to-recognize gourmet species available at different times of summer and fall. After a presentation, foray into the Tower Hill woods to collect and ID wild mushrooms.
Instructor Timothy Lane is a lifelong forager of plants and fungi. He began harvesting edible mushrooms as a child hunting the cranberry bogs of Carlisle, MA. He has eaten 75 different local species, and collects several species of choice edibles in quantity during season.

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