CMS Meeting – Jan 2025
- Speaker: Meredith Allen and Susie Holmes – Aventura de Hongos: Stories from NAMA Mexicon 2024
- When: Wednesday, Jan 15, 2025 at 7pm
- Where: In person at the Amazon Community Center
- Also live stream: CMS YouTube Channel (open and click to set a reminder)
CMS members Meredith Allen and Susie Holmes will share stories of their adventures participating in the North American Mycological Association (NAMA) Boutique Foray to Valle de Bravo, Mexico in August 2024. The talk will focus on culinary, cultural and ecological themes of the trip.
About the Speakers
Meredith Allen (pictured left) is a longtime mushroom enthusiast and member of the Cascade Mycological Society. She is a past CMS President and Board member and has also served as the CMS Newsletter Editor and the CMS Recording Secretary. In real life, she is an appellate public defender for the state of Oregon.
Susie Holmes (pictured right) is a founding member of the Cascade Mycological Society and biology faculty member at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon where she teaches mushroom biology and plant science courses. With interests in biodiversity and landscape ecology, she is a co-founder of CMS’s Fungal Diversity Project: Macrofungi of Lane County. She has taught fungal microscopy courses for mycology clubs in the PNW and she co-organizes the annual Mount Pisgah Mushroom Festival in Eugene.
