The Viking Experience Academy is back! Memorial Day weekend outside Oxford I can teach you to ID common, delicious, edible mushrooms and…you could be taking other classes in natural dyes, blacksmithing, herbalism, Norse legends, basket making, weaving, historical cooking, fishing net making, Norse pottery making, glass bead making, copper jewelry forging, cold-process soap making, drum making, intro to beekeeping, spoon carving and of course…making mead like a Viking!
Follow the link above for more details. Scroll down the page about 2/3s of the way to read more about my very introductory mushroom ID class using life-size models, a handy handout, Q&A time and vivid stories of foraging safely.
If the weather cooperates, I’ll be able to show some live mushrooms collected on site too. But no promises on that given the weather. FWIW I call May to September “Thunderstorm Season.” Which doesn’t just mean we have thunderstorms, it also means we can’t reliably predict how much precipitation is coming. Take note of how often the weather pros call for rain that doesn’t come or how often it comes when it’s not predicted. It’s not their fault. It’s just thunderstorm season and conditions will flop around.
Will also be selling and signing all three of my books there for cash or check (I don’t like the internets!): Hentopia ($20), Ripe Tomato Revolution ($20) and How to Forage Mushrooms Without Dying: An Absolute Beginner’s Guide ($15), which has sold over 125,000 copies.
Also, there will be food trucks with BBQ and African cuisine. Details in the link in the first sentence. Hope to see a bunch of you there! :-)
Three ways:
1) At events like the Viking Experience above and at upcoming readings/signings/Q&A’s at libraries and bookshops as you’ll see below.
2) You can also buy any of my three of my books at any local bookstore. Even if they don’t have it on hand, they can order it for you.
3) Online via Bookshop.org which is a consortium of locally owned bookstores nation-wide, any of them will ship your book the next day!
4) If you’re nearby-ish, you can stop by my house and I’ll sell you a signed copy—cash or check only. I live at 1412 North Mangum St., Durham, NC 27702 and you can shoot me an email at frankhyman2020@yahoo.com to arrange it.
In 34 years I’ve helped over 500 clients have more beautiful gardens and I can likely help you too. I design and build decks (with my innovative Adiron-deck benches), stone patios and stone walls. As well as treehouses (check my tree house at the corner of Buchanan Blvd. and Gloria Ave. near Duke’s East Campus wall) and moongates, arbors and water gardens. That’s not all. As a horticulturist and designer, I also create gardens with many fragrant and edible and evergreen plants, as well as with pollinators and natives. I’ve installed green roofs and green walls too.
Oh. And affordable, sustainable and charming chicken coops as well. Contact me at frankhyman2020@yahoo.com to set up a meeting. Some photos of my work at frankhyman.com. (it says it’s “under construction” but that doesn’t mean you can’t look at it!)
June 13th from 10-11am, Saturday, I’ll be at a free event at the Chatham County Library in Pittsboro, NC.
Talking Ripe Tomato Revolution and showing my tomato cages and the material you’ll need for a roof for my innovative Tomato House that stops diseases. This is a book which can help you beat the odds on dealing with the too-many diseases that stalk your tomato plants. And….it includes the best recipe for Fried Green Tomatoes. For those who didn’t know, I’m a former organic tomato farmer, have a degree in horticulture from a top hort school—NCSU in Raleigh—and studied under the legendary horticulturist Dr. JC Raulston, for whom the Arboretum is named.
The following Saturday on June 20th from 2-3pm I’ll be back in Oxford for a signing/reading/Q&Aing of “Ripe Tomato Revolution” and showing my tomato cages and the material you’ll need for a roof for my innovative Tomato House that stops diseases. This is a book which can help you beat the odds on dealing with the too-many diseases that stalk your tomato plants. For those who didn’t know, I’m a former organic tomato farmer, have a degree in horticulture from a top hort school—NCSU in Raleigh—and studied under the legendary horticulturist Dr. JC Raulston, for whom the Arboretum is named.
This even it at Wild Hare Books, where you can buy coffee or wine to get the full benefit of this lovely establishment. Beautiful, well-designed space. I was their first author signing and it went very well.
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