Category: mycology

• Mycology / Mushroom Reading List

  Do you hate mushrooms and want to understand why, or do you love mushrooms and want to learn more about them? This reading list will help you understand (as much as we can understand) about mycology, the different types of fungi out there, and how mushrooms have and will change the world.

  Erin Stenzel

  November 20, 2025

  mycology, Reading Lists

  book, conservation, ecosystem, list, master naturalist, mushroom, mycology, reading

• Building a Fruiting Chamber for Recycled Mushroom Blocks

  Growing mushrooms from recycled mushroom blocks is a great way help reduce items headed to the landfill, to have fun, and grow food at the same time.

  Erin Stenzel

  April 9, 2025

  mycology

  blocks, crafts, diy, food, fruiting chamber, garden, gardening, master naturalist, mushroom, mushroom blocks, mushrooms, mycology, shotgun, stem

• Gross, What Is That, Poke It With A Stick?  It’s Deer Vomit.

  If you crossed white slime, with orange slime, some dead insects, and mixed in some bubbles, you would have deer vomit. (Fusicolla merismoides)

  Erin Stenzel

  March 30, 2025

  mycology

  deer vomit, Fusicolla merismoides, hiking, master naturalist, mushroom, mycology, slime, walk