On Saturday 24th September I went to a public talk given by Paul Stamets, a mycologist from Washington State in the USA, who was visiting Findhorn for a couple of days. I had seen him give a lecture at Findhorn last year, and he’s a very inspiring speaker, speaking from the perspective of over two decades of studying and working with fungi, which he is convinced can be used to help address many of the environmental and health-related problems in our society today.
Paul is a wonderful character and gives his talks whilst wearing a hat made from a fungus – the felt-like material called amadou that is extracted from the tinder fungus (Fomes fomentarius). He lives and expresses his passion for all things fungal, and when I went to Glen Affric the next day I therefore had fungi on my mind, especially as this year has been such a good one for them. [Read more…] about Tooth fungi and slime moulds
