fungal boogie

[Alan Muskat]

Greetings intrepid forages!

DATELINE: Last 5,000 years: indigenous hunter-gatherers disparaged by advancing civilization as lowly scavengers and routinely displaced or exterminated.

July 26, 2010: Time Magazine declares foraging to be "the latest culinary obsession." 

Maybe that's why my next three classes are full. In any case, I've added three more Asheville-area classes starting this month:

Saturday, August 21st Zen and the Art of Mushroom Hunting

Saturday, September 4th Making Friends with Fungus

Friday-Wednesday, September 10-15th   Off the Eaten Path

The third event, a wild foods camping trip, is co-sponsored by the Appalachian School of Holistic Herbalism. Come get away for the weekend or if you can, for all five days.

I was featured in the Asheville Citizen-Times this month (see here and here). Next month in Blue Ridge Outdoors I'll be talking about how foraging led me to co-found  The REAL Center, a community, communication, and intimacy school. Our next session kicks off with a "cuddle party" on the 13th. Think mycorrhiza...

For more events coming in October, check my schedule. For medicinal mushrooms, see here. If you'd like a walk on your land or a class in your area, drop me a line. If you want to unsubscribe, send me mushrooms to identify. 

;) AM

 TheREALCenter.org

P.S. recent highlights:

I thought it was an insurance statue until it moved

five pound chaga, fifteen feet above the road, before and after I lassoed, hitched it to my car, and floored it

pint-size terrapin, not interested in canopy tour

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