For upcoming lectures see our main events page!

- Recently Past Lectures -

March 2022

February 2022

January 2022 - Gabriela D'Elia on the culture of Tropical or Sidereal astrology and fungi as symbols connected to those systems

December - Melissa Klotka's Mushroom Ketchup cooking demo + Holiday Party and WMS board elections

November - screening of the film, Psychedelia

October - Rose Tursi Fun and Fungal: Facts you didn't even know you didn't know about the world's most commonly eaten mushrooms!

September - This month's meeting occurred during Cable Northwoods event

August - Maria Pinto Dispatches from the African Diaspor(e)a

July - Dr. Patrick Leacock The Joy of Fungal Sex

June - William Padilla-Brown Everything Truffles: Science and Culture

May - Eugenia Bone Kitchen Mycology: Fantastic Fungi Community Cookbook

April - Michael Zirpoli More about Morels

March - Dr. Britt Bunyard Amanita Identification Made Easy

February - Mariah Rogers Social Mycology, Community Science

January - Alan Bergo Mushroom Preservation with the Forager Chef

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All Zoom meetings start at 6:30 PM CST.
Third Thursday of Each Month

We get going with 30 minutes of collaborative identification of WMS member fungi observations as everyone joins the meeting. These will be from our 2020 & 2021 forays.

Virtual foray project links:
2021 WMS Virtual Foray
All WMS iNaturalist Projects
Our Blog on the Projects
Mushroom Observer
A typical lecture runs from 7:00 - 7:45 PM concluding with Q&A from 7:45 - 8:00 PM
Presentations lengths will vary, however.

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