In this moment I am grateful for warmth, sunshine and birdsong outside the little hut I’m living in.
The second Fungi Friends session at St John’s Church went well and brought some new participants along with some from the first session. Lots of good questions were asked, as always, and we focused on working together to set up our first practical cultivation session to produce Oyster Mushrooms. That session will be happening on Thursday 30th of May and the spawn and substrate have been ordered so will arrive in a couple of weeks. If you’d like to come along and see how we do the cultivation you’re very welcome to join us and if enough people are interested we could do more practical cultivation work in the future.
The next Fungi Friends session is happening on Thursday 16th of May and we are looking to have a practical element to the session to practice cooking and brewing medicinal mushroom teas. I feel it’s important, and fun, to learn how to use the mushrooms we’ll be producing so I hope participants find this valuable and inspiring.
I’m really appreciating how these Fungi Friend’s sessions have developed (or mushroomed) and this could be the start of more practical workshops to learn new skills, informative talks to inspire and many other valuable community supporting projects, all with a fungi theme. Come along to a session or get in touch if you’d like to support and/or join our group of Fungi Friends.
Peace and Mush Love,
Chris Forest
The Lovely Fungus Company 