In this moment I’m grateful for the Stepping Stones team providing me and the local community with tasty soup made and served with love.
I’m looking forward to gathering with some local Fungi Friends next Thursday (18th) here at St johns Church in Bridgetown (TQ9 5AE). This will be my first public offering for a long time where I share some of my fungi knowledge and experience. Thanks to Kit from Stepping Stones for giving me a space to do this.
My intention for this first Fungi Friends gathering is to provide space for people with an interest in fungi and mushrooms to meet each other and me to explore what we can create together. I’ll introduce some of the low tech cultivation techniques I have used to produce mushrooms and will be happy to answer any questions you have about fungi more generally.
If there is interest then we can run this gathering every two weeks (and potentially more) to deepen our connection with each other and play with some practical cultivation. I’d love to empower this community to be producing mushrooms with and for each other and if we really get inspired perhaps we could work together to provide mushrooms to the wider community. Being able to produce our own mushrooms to use in the Stepping Stones Cafe would be really lovely and there are so many other creative ways we could work together with fungi.
I’m keen to listen to next week’s Fungi Friend’s participants, to hear some of your stories of connecting with mushrooms and fungi. Perhaps you’ve been out foraging, grown some mushrooms at home already or have a craft skill that you’d like to share that we can incorporate a fungi theme to. I’d love to try embroidering some mushrooms onto my clothes so if that’s a skill you have then I’d love to chat with you about that.
Thanks for your interest in this offering and I hope to see you on Thursday 18th April 2024 for a lovely gathering of fungi friends. We start at 1pm and finish at 3pm – you’re welcome to join at any point. Also, if you’d like to come and get some soup, a cheese toastie and whatever other tasty treats are on offer from the Stepping Stones Cafe then you’re very welcome to come along from 12 midday.
Peace and Mush Love,
Chris Forest
🍄 The Lovely Fungus Company ❤ 