Come learn how to make tempeh from tempeh expert Barry Schwartz. In an one-hour workshop, Barry will guide you through the process of fermenting soybeans with […]
Next Monday's ID meeting will take place from 6.30 to 8.30 at Paul Sadowski's apartment in Chelsea, Manhattan.
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!
We will be headed to Long Pond Park, Staten Island this Sunday February 4th! Come along for this Staten Island winter walk.
Next Monday's ID meeting will be happening online. Since there are fewer fungi to be found this time of year, we'll be diving deeper into families […]
Most fungi are completely invisible to humans. While we love to admire beautiful mushrooms and other large fruiting bodies in the forest, entire communities of cryptic and microscopic fungi are living and growing under our feet. Single-celled fungi, also known as yeasts, are among these cryptic fungi. Because they are single-celled, we can't see them with our own eyes, and yet they exist in almost all environments on Earth. The single-celled growth form evolved several times from hyphal ancestors and is common worldwide, but yeasts' roles in ecosystems are often mysterious.
In this talk, I will introduce you to the wonderful world of naturally-occurring yeasts; giving some historic context on how humans have been interacting with yeasts for thousands of years, before discussing what we do and don't know about yeast ecology in nature. Then I'll discuss my own work with yeasts: I work with yeasts in several natural New England habitats, including temperate forests and carnivorous plants. I am working to expand our knowledge of yeast ecology and evolution by focusing on how yeasts interact with other living things in nature. With this talk, I hope to give audience members a new appreciation for the mysterious and intriguing invisible fungal diversity they encounter every day.
We will be headed to Long Pond Park, Staten Island this Sunday February 4th! Come along for this Staten Island winter walk.
Next Monday's ID meeting will take place from 6.30 to 8.30 at Paul and Juniper's apartment in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
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!
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. […]
Join us for a walk in Kissena Park, Queens this Sunday, February 18th!
The taxonomic position of slime moulds has baffled naturalists and scientists for centuries. When “the father of taxonomy” Swedish botanists Carl Linneus devised his system of classification he included slime moulds (and fungi) in the plant kingdom. Slime moulds were subsequently placed in various kingdoms but are now regarded as amoebozoans.
Sarah Lloyd has observed slime moulds in a eucalypt forest at Birralee Tasmania for 13 years. It is now considered a hotspot for myxomycetes, with over 120 species documented from the site including 4 hitherto undescribed species, one new genus and more new species awaiting further study. In this webinar Sarah will discuss these and also describe the important ecological roles of slime moulds.
Sarah Lloyd has had a lifelong love of birds, and since 1988 when she moved to live in a forest at Black Sugarloaf, Birralee in central north Tasmania, an interest in plants, bryophytes, fungi and slime moulds. She has contributed to several citizen science projects including the Australian Bird Count, and Fungimap, a project to record Australia’s undocumented fungal species. It was through Fungimap that Sarah was introduced to slime moulds. In 2019 she was awarded an OAM (Order of Australia medal) for “services to conservation – and slime moulds”. She is author of numerous books, including Where the Slime Moulds Creep (4th Edition, 2022).
Next Monday's ID meeting will be happening online. This time, the focus will be on the polypores. Polypore expert Tom Bigelow will give brief introduction to […]
The banquet has been a storied part of the club's past back since the club's founding in 1962. I fact John Cage himself wrote to the club that "All that is necessary is an annual program of lectures and walks and a banquet." Our last banquet took place in February 2020, just before the pandemic closed everything down. Well, it's time to bring it back!
We are very happy to invite you all to the NYMS winter banquet. This year we are going to explore a newly opened restaurant in Flushing, with a rather promising name, Mushroom Hot Pot. And since the Asian New year is this month, we can welcome it by partaking in some fungal goodness!
The Mushroom Hot Pot is located at 36-55 Main Street, four blocks north (toward Northern boulevard) from the Flushing-Main Street stop on the 7 train (last stop). The restaurant offers a variety of dishes from across China, primarily focusing on Sichuan dishes, but the centerpiece is the non-spicy mushroom hotpot from Yunan province. For this dinner the vegan/vegetarian mushroom hot pot contains 4 different mushrooms (some shipped dried from Yunan) with vegetables, tofu and noodles. Complementing it will be five dishes focused on vegetables (some vegan, and ranging from medium spicy to spicy), and two Sichuan fish dishes with Sichuan peppercorns (so mala spicy!). Thus, there should be plenty options for vegetarians, and a good selection of vegan dishes! So please join the fellow club members and learn how various mushrooms are utilized in Sichuan and Yunan dishes!
The number of attendees is limited to 108 due to the restaurant's space, so do not dilly dally if interested!
You may choose to prevent this website from aggregating and analyzing the actions you take here. Doing so will protect your privacy, but will also prevent the owner from learning from your actions and creating a better experience for you and other users.
