SCMS June 13th Membership Meeting.

Wednesday, June 13^th: Membership meeting starts at 7:30 PM. Meeting location: Everett Housing Building, 1401 Poplar Street, Everett. Guest speaker: Kira Taylor is an incoming Environmental Science graduate student at Western Washington University, with a focus on Fungal Ecology.  She was a 2011 North American Mycological Association voucher student, and assisted in research being conducted on soil fungi at Indiana University.  She has had a longstanding interest in identifying, cooking, and learning about the fascinating diversity within Kingdom Fungi, and has foraged for mushrooms in places as diverse as New Zealand, France, Switzerland, Hawaii, Colorado, Maine, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, California, and here in glorious Washington state.  New Zealand fungi is of particular interest to her, as she was a member of, and active participant in the Fungal Network of New Zealand for two years, and lived in the country off and on for nearly that long. Her topic: The Fabulous Fungi of New Zealand.

SCMS Annual Plant Sale Meeting

Wednesday, April 11th: Membership meeting starts at 7:30 PM. Meeting location: Everett Housing Building,
1401 Poplar Street, Everett. This is our Annual Plant Sale, a fund raiser for the club. Bring plants and vegetables and bring money where you can buy some cheap wonderful plants and vegetables.

March 31st Foray Message.

Those of you we are planning to go to tomorrows (Saturday, March 31st) foray there is a good chance there won't be much out there.  The foray leader scouted the area earlier this week and thought that it was still early. In any case, the foray leader will be at the designated meeting spot tomorrow between 10 and 10:30 AM.

Want to learn more about Truffles? Come to this Wednesday meeting.

Wednesday, March 14^th: Membership meeting starts at 7:30 PM. Meeting location: Everett Housing Building, 1401 Poplar Street, Everett. Special talk: Truffles - Where, When, What, How by Melodie Gates & Lynne Antone.


SCMS Members Note: Latest NAMA newsletter is now available in Members Only Section.

KOMO News Article on Mushroom Farm Exhibit at Pioneer Square through March 9th

Check out the link to the KOMO News article about the Mushroom Farm Exhibit at Pioneer Square through March 9th. Article discusses use of coffee grounds for growing mushrooms and schedule of events open to the public.
http://www.komonews.com/living/home-garden/Mushroom-project-teaches-warm-sticky-lesson-in-climate-change--140061883.html

SCMS Member Machel Spence Photos Published in Fungi Magazine

You can take a look at her photos in the Fungi Magazine when you follow the below link:
http://www.fungimag.com/press.htm

The article Slime Forest has a direct link:
http://www.fungimag.com/winter-2012-articles/04%20NH%20Nat%20Mo%201111.p1.pdf

SCMS Meeting this Wednesday, February 8th

Just a reminder. This is our first meeting of the New Year. Membership meeting starts
at 7:30 PM.
Meeting location: Everett Housing Building,
1401 Poplar Street, Everett.
Topic: Chaga – Medicinal benefits by Jairul.

Fungus Fair Photos

While we were being dumped with snow, the Santa Cruz club had it's Fungus Fair last weekend. Those interested in seeing mushrooms collected in California can link to the below website:
https://profiles.google.com/113390429066105034359/photos

Note there are several albums on this site, three have nice collection of mushroom photos.

Think Spring!