Foraged Finds: Wild Foods and Medicines of our Forests, Farms and Urban Lots

Learn what fungi and plants exist commonly within living communities.  Gathering increases our awareness of the ecology of our environment and helps us reconnect to our ancestral selves. It doesn't take much to walk out the door and find edibles, medicinals and even poisonous life forms. Journey into the field of knowledge we all once knew.  Tap into the diverse and vast world of fungi and plants that live within the region. Exploring the ethics of gathering and what sensitive, threatened and endangered species occur.

This class will have a stronger focus on wild mushrooms and common plants to get confident recognizing in the wild.

This event is FREE + OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Speaker Bio

Olga Tzogas created and operates Smugtown Mushrooms in Rochester NY. Her journey with fungi and plants started over ten years ago. Working with these allies by foraging in both urban and more wild settings, and developing skills to identify for food and medicine. In 2011, Smugtown Mushrooms was established due to a need for mushrooms and growing supplies, workshops, events and community based science in her area. While continuously learning more and embracing the never-ending, unlocked potential of mushrooms and fungi. Olga teaches workshops throughout the world about wild mushroom identification, medicinal mushrooms, biology, and mushroom cultivation. She was a core organizer for the 2016 Radical Mycology Convergence and the MycoSymbiotics Festival from 2015-17 and helped establish the first ever New Moon Mycology Summit in 2018. Olga returns annually to offer mushroom and plant focused tours within her ancestral home of Greece.