Resilient Mycology: Mushrooms for Food Security and Mycoremediation Friday, Dec. 6th 7pm-9pm $7-$10 sliding scale donation 218 Saint Helens Avenue, Tacoma, WA King's Books * Mushrooms and mycelium are an element of natural systems that can take your gardening and food production to another level. Protein, medicine, and myoremediation are just the tips of the iceberg of how mycology can be of benefit to our ecosystem and ourselves. Ja Schindler of Fungi For the People will talk on the ability to learn from and adapt with Fungi in an ever-changing world. Traditional and modern reasons and methods for working with mushrooms for food, medicine, and mycoremediation. Author of the book Fungi for the People, this talk is a precursor to a hands-on workshop in the Tacoma Permaculture Food Forest that will take place the next day. Hope to see you there! $7-$10 sliding scale donation Mushroom Cultivation Workshop in Tacoma's Food Forest Saturday, Dec. 7th, 11am-4pm Portland Avenue Community Center 3513 E Portland Ave. Tacoma, WA $10-$40 Sliding Scale Donation * A study of fungal social interplay, uncovering layers of spaces to encourage healthy mushroom societies in soils and trees. A wide range of edible mushrooms, mycorrhizal applications, and mushroom habitat zones will be covered. This will be the beginning of our outdoor mushroom cultivation in Tacoma's Food forest at Swan Creek Park on Tacoma's East side. Though this applies to myroforestry, cultivation concepts can be used in other contexts, as well. Learning how to cultivate mushrooms for food, medicine and mycroremediation gives a rounded view on how to manage and benefit from the direct environments at hand. Workshop will be lead by Fungi for the People founder Ja Schindler, and though part will take place in the food forest itself, the class portion will be indoors at the Portland Ave. Community Center. $10-$40 sliding scale. [cid:image001.jpg@01CDD2C9.209C8340] Micaela Cooley, Urban Agriculture Education & Outreach Coordinator Pierce Conservation District PO Box 1057 | 5430 66th Ave. East | Puyallup, WA 98371 501 S. I Street | Tacoma, WA 98405 Phone: 253.306.3457 | Fax: 253.845.4569 Website: www.PierceCD.org<http://www.piercecd.org/> Promoting the conservation of renewable natural resources in Pierce County since 1949. Follow us on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/TacomaPierce-County-Community-Garden-Program/217603524929355>