Wednesday, May 24
1:00pm - 4:30pm
at Edgewood Farm

Mycologist Lawrence Millman will give an hour long whiteboard presentation on fungi and their role in the natural world, followed by a two hour walk that focuses on fungal ecology rather than edibility.  You will learn about how certain fungal species are excellent recyclers, how other species help fight climate change, and maybe, just maybe, how a few species get flies to taxi their spores.  Please bring a sense of curiosity and, if you have one, a hand lens.

Mycologist, author, and Arctic explorer Lawrence Millman is the author of 18 books, including such titles as Last Places, A Kayak Full of Ghosts, Fascinating Fungi of New England, Fungipedia, At the End of the World, and — forthcoming — The Last Speaker of Bear.  He has studied fungi all over the world and put together inventories of species in such places as the Canadian Arctic, Honduras, Nantucket, and Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.