CMS Meeting – April 2024

  • Speaker: Dr. Mike Amaranth – Fry, Thrive, or Die? Spring Mushrooms and Ecosystems Importance
  • When: Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 7pm
  • Live stream Only: CMS YouTube Channel (open and click to set a reminder)

Description of Talk: Mushrooms attract people of all ages and diverse personalities. There are wild mushrooms that make a splendid meal, wild mushrooms that can improve your health—or potentially save your life, alter your mind, and wild mushrooms that can end your life. My presentations are fun and informative. In over 40 years of researching and collecting fungi I have accumulated world-class pictures and stories of fungi and their uses. I will share with your audience. common, delicious, hallucinogenic, medicinal, and poisonous mushrooms of the Western United States. The talk prepares readers to hunt wild mushrooms and to serve them up, and will delight the reader with stories, history, possibilities, recipes and much, much, more. I will focus on mushrooms that occur in the spring.

About the Speaker

 Dr Mike Amaranthus is a world-renowned mycorrhizal scientist, who even has several mushroom species and two mushroom genera named after him. He is the recipient of the USDA Highest Award for Scientific Achievement. Dr. Mike has a BS degree from University of California Berkeley and a PhD from Oregon State University and has authored over a 150 scientific manuscripts. Dr Mike and his wife Eileen founded Mycorrhizal Applications Inc. the world’s largest producer of mycorrhizal fungal inoculum. Dr Mike believes “fungi” should emphasize “fun”. As a two-time cancer survivor, getting to know this fantastic group of mushrooms has enriched and perhaps saved his life. He believes that a mushroom presentation cannot only be accurate and have substance but be entertaining as well.

Fry, Thrive or Die is a fun pocket guide to common edible, medicinal, hallucinogenic and poisonous mushrooms in the western US.  The book is full of recipes, medicinal uses, history and ecology of these significant species. It’s an easy to use field guide with fun stories and up to date information on culinary, medicinal and psychedelic uses.

You can learn more about Dr. Mike at these websites:

Tags:

You may also like...