Offsite Fall Mushroom Foray with El McFarland [Session 2] [SOLD OUT]

This class is hands on, so come prepared to walk in the woods. We will likely be off the beaten path, so good woods shoes/boots are a must. Please bring some water, a knife, a collecting basket (or cardboard box), a camera and/or notebook, tick protection, and paper lunch bags to separate your finds.

At the end of class, we will come back together and talk about how to verify our finds. How to use field guides, dichotomous keys, and online resources will be discussed. We will then talk about how to prepare and preserve different species and celebrate all that we have learned by cooking up some of our finds and enjoying the gifts of the woods.

We recommend Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians by William C. Roody as an excellent beginning field guide.

Meet Your Teacher

El is an aspiring CAM practitioner focusing on herbal medicine and a Wholistic approach to wellness and vitality. Her passion is connecting with people, using acutely polished listening skills and balanced knowledge, drawing from many modalities of the world to help them figure out what works to help them feel their best and live a high quality of life!

In the meantime, while El pursues her passion as a student at ACHS and becoming a registered herbalist with the AHG, she owns Handy Human Solutions LLC managing jobs operating as a licensed & insured electrician & handy human all around. If there’s a handy task she can likely figure out a way, specializing in old work homes and trying her best to find creative solutions for what her clients can dream up. One particular niche she enjoys filling is designing gardens- various raised bed styles and vertical approaches to having and maintaining a personal garden in urban and space limited locations.

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