Join us for a walk in Van Cortlandt Park East, Bronx this Sunday, January 26th. Please note: the walk will start earlier than we normally do. […]
Next Monday's week's ID meeting will be happening online.
Rather than using our usual format we're going to experiment a little. Since there are fewer fungi to be found this time of year, we'll be diving deeper into genera that a lot of people are interested in. This Monday the spotlight is on the milky caps - Lactarius and Lactifluus, hosted and moderated by the club's own expert Bethany Beech.
Bring your most exciting or confounding milky cap observations and let's figure them out together.
As always we encourage you to use iNaturalist to share your observations - it's a great way to keep track of your finds, and you will be able to participate in these two NYMS projects:
Join us for a walk in Long Pond Park, Staten Island this Saturday, February 1st. The temperatures this week are slightly warmer than last week. Let's […]
Next Monday's ID meeting will take place from 6.30 to 8.30 in person.
Attendees can of course arrive later and leave earlier.
Please bring any interesting specimens regardless of whether you have identified them or not, and check out what others have found.
In person ID meetings are a great way of developing your hands-on identification skills and dipping your toes into microscopy!
Next Monday's ID meeting will take place from 6.30 to 8.30 in person.
Attendees can of course arrive later and leave earlier.
Please bring any interesting specimens regardless of whether you have identified them or not, and check out what others have found.
In person ID meetings are a great way of developing your hands-on identification skills and dipping your toes into microscopy!
Eugenia Bone is an internationally known food and nature writer whose work has appeared in many anthologies, magazines, and newspapers. She is a member of the faculty at the New York Botanical Garden where she teaches classes on mycophagy and psychedelic mushrooms. She is the author or co-author of nine books on food and biology, including the category staple Mycophilia, and most recently, Have a Good Trip: Exploring the Magic Mushroom Experience (October, 2024). She has been nominated for or won a variety of awards, including a James Beard Award. Eugenia is featured in the documentary directed by Louie Schwartzberg, Fantastic Fungi (2019), and in the Netflix children’s show about food, Waffles + Mochi (the mushroom episode) produced by Michele Obama’s Higher Ground Productions. She is past president of the New York Mycological Society.
Next Monday's week's ID meeting will be happening online.
Rather than using our usual format we're going to experiment a little. Since there are fewer fungi to be found this time of year, we'll be diving deeper into genera that a lot of people are interested in. This Monday the spotlight is on the milky caps - Lactarius and Lactifluus, hosted and moderated by the club's own expert Bethany Beech.
Bring your most exciting or confounding milky cap observations and let's figure them out together.
As always we encourage you to use iNaturalist to share your observations - it's a great way to keep track of your finds, and you will be able to participate in these two NYMS projects:
Our February reading will be of Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard. Many of you have read it, some of you have not, but we've yet to discuss it in our book club so the time is ripe to revisit this now somewhat controversial "classic."
Like every winter, we will be holding a business meeting where we'll share our plans for the year and debate the hot topics of the day. […]
W16Next Monday's ID meeting will be happening online. Come share what you’ve found, see what others have found or to ask more general questions about anything […]
February 20th, 7:30 pm Madeline DeDe-Panken will discuss the rise of popular mycology in America at the turn of the twentieth century, focusing on cultural clashes […]
Join us for a walk in Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan this Sunday, February 23rd. As you might have seen in our 2025 NYC Diversity Report, Inwood […]
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