South Vancouver Island Mycological Society
The Truffle Festival is being organized by the Truffle Association of British Columbia. Click or tap on the image above or on the link https://www.eventbrite.ca/cc/tabc-2022-truffle-festival-71189 to go the website. Once you are on the website, click on one of the advertised events like this one for further information.
January 13, 2022 at 6:45 pm via Zoom
Dr. Gordon Walker will cook for us. He knows about how yeasts and other organisms fit into the world of wine-making. He loves mushrooms. Have a look at the poster below for details.
There are links on the poster that are not clickable – those are listed below the poster in clickable form.
For more information about Gordon and more links about mushrooms click
https://fascinatedbyfungi.com/pages/about
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_2YiFPYbM2qU8QMQboiqpQ
https://www.tiktok.com/@fascinatedbyfungi
Andy MacKinnon talks about the new mushroom guide he authored with Kem Luther, on CHEK.
Members will receive a zoom link about 2 days beforehand. The presentation will be recorded and after editing by Steven Strybosch will be posted on our YouTube Media page, accessible from the members-only section of our website. It will also be live-streamed to our Facebook site.
SVIMS member Marty Kranabetter gets some long-overdue recognition for his lifetime work in mycology. Times-Colonist article from November 21, 2021.
BC Museum is releasing a video in its This Week in History series about its new travelling exhibit on mushrooms. The CHEK news report from November 15, 2021 contains the video. The panels of the display, which is currently at the Swan Lake Nature Sanctuary, can be seen in this report.
A good article (Guardian, 11 Nov 2021) by a writer who really knows the subject that she is writing about.