Catch My $20 Mushroom ID Class on Sat. July 25 at 2pm.

Learn 8 common, local, wild, edible mushrooms using life-size models. Host wrote top-selling ID book. Indoors, so not subject to drought.

Learning to ID wild, edible, delicious mushrooms is easier than you think.
We’ll pass around 8 life-size models so once you’re in the field, you will be much more confident of success. Late summer and fall is the high season for foraging mushrooms in piedmont, NC, so you will be ready to bring home gourmet food.

You will also receive a handout of local foraging information, have time for Q&A, plus signed copies of the host’s”How to Forage Mushrooms Without Dying: An Absolute Beginner’s Guide“ will be available for purchase for $15 cash or check. It has sold over 127,000 copies and no one has died yet! Top forager and author Sam Thayer says, “The book is excellent.”

Your host, Frank Hyman, has been certified by Tradd Cotter to sell wild mushrooms in 3 states. He has foraged with professionals in 7 states and 6 countries. Frank has made as much as $200/hour selling wild mushrooms to chefs in downtown Durham, NC.

In my 20’s I managed an organic tomato farm. A few years later I earned a double major in horticulture and design. I studied under the legendary Dr. JC Raulston, for whom the Arboretum is named. That and 40 years of home gardening with tomatoes qualified me to write the leading book on growing this Queen of the Garden without losing your mind or your crop:
Ripe Tomato Revolution

In this book I include my innovative techniques—meaning they are not found in other books or blogs—for having little to no leaf diseases or pest insects. And my plans for creating an inexpensive mobile and easy to empty compost bin, making baby greenhouses, Tomato Houses to keep leaves dry and many other time-saving and hassle-free gardening techniques.

With this drought, many cities are limiting sprinklers, but they still allow irrigation from soaker hoses and drip lines.

Check out my article in Triangle Gardener about using these options to water your garden efficiently and without being a scofflaw. Bonus: Your tomatoes will have much fewer leaf diseases!

See you in August for more class updates and links to helpful articles.

Let me know if you have questions about gardening, foraging or chicken-keeping.

Later, Frank