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Puget Sound Mycological Society Members' Page Follow PSMS on Facebook Follow PSMS on Flickr Search psms.org www. Home About PSMS History, Mission & Bylaws Presidents The Patrice Benson Golden Mushroom Award Membership Benefits of Joining Join Online Renew Online Join/Renew by Mail Members' Page Events Wild Mushroom Show Research Projects Membership Meetings Field Trips Mushroom Maynia Survivors' Banquet Event Registration Education Poisoning Classes & Workshops ID Clinics Eating Wild Mushrooms Reading List Fungi on Postage Stamps Resources Spore Prints Newsletter Foundation & Grants Harvesting Rules Library Recipes Links Contact Contact Info Directions Welcome to PSMS! We are an organization that encourages the research, education, cultivation, hunting, identification and the cooking of mushrooms. With over 1,200 members, PSMS is one of the largest mycological societies in the country. We share our knowledge about mushrooms through meetings, classes, workshops and field trips. Please join us at a meeting or become a member today! Join PSMS Online Latest PSMS News PSMS Events Update Our Virtual Mushroom ID classes for Members are currently being filled. For more information click on "Events" at the top of this page. Our Annual Fall Wild Mushroom show will be virtual. For more information click on "Wild Mushroom Show" under the Events heading at the top of this page. General Meetings are virtual at this time and speakers are listed on the right hand side of this page. The link to access the October 13th meeting will be posted by October 12th on this page. Fall Field trips, ID Clinics, the Bridle Trails study and the Ben Woo Foray are postponed till next year due to the Covid19 safety concerns. We hope that you are all staying healthy and safe in this time. Your PSMS Board of Trustees For more information regarding public lands closures during this time, please use the links below: WTA State Parks Mountaineers For over fifty years, the Puget Sound Mycological Society (PSMS) has nurtured collaboration amongst its members for an understanding and appreciation of the wide diversity of mushroom species in the Pacific Northwest. We also depend on a diverse membership to support our mission to foster the understanding and appreciation of mycology as a hobby and a science. In recent months, as systematic inequality in U.S. society is revealed to a broader audience, it becomes clearer that inequality imposes barriers on marginalized groups to participation in a wide variety of activities. PSMS opposes all barriers that limit participation in mycology. PSMS and its board members support a more diverse, inclusive, and welcoming organization where all people, especially those who are underrepresented in our organization and society at large, can enjoy mushrooms and all of the activities associated with them. We realize this will be an on-going conversation and are looking to our members for suggestions on ways to increase diversity, inclusivity, and welcoming. Thank you as we join together to make this long-overdue journey toward systemic equality! To all mushroom hunters and PSMS members, As you are experiencing, these are volatile and uncertain times. Due to concerns about the virus and group functions, we have cancelled not only the spring Banquet , and, sadly, all spring Field Trips , as well as public ID sessions (Monday evenings) and the Bridle Trails spring studies . These are not easy nor welcome decisions. Our April PSMS General Meeting on Tuesday April 14th will be at 6:30pm . We are happy to have Cornelia Cho, MD., present a talk on "Medicinal Mushrooms in Clinical Practice". Note that this is one hour earlier than our usual meeting time. This meeting will be a virtual general meeting , which will be able to be viewed on the Zoom application. We are now accepting reservations to this upcoming meeting . At this time, our meeting will be available to PSMS members only. Information regarding future PSMS events will be posted to our webpages as situations unfold. Thank you for bearing with us, on the board, as we navigate unknown waters, Randy Richardson, PSMS President -- Check out the PSMS Blog! Click here to read it. Fall 2019 "Hildegard Hendrickson ID Clinics" are done for the season! Thank you to everyone who participated and helped out. See you in the spring! Click here for more info. Mushroom MAYnia will be held this year at the Phinney Center Community Hall on Sunday May 19th! Family Fungi Fun! Mushroom MAYnia showcases safe cultivation, hunting and harvesting methods and arts and crafts all created from our fungi friends. Educational and fun for the whole family, including foraging tips, cultivation information, nature walks, mushroom talks, truffle flavored popcorn and fungi crafts! More info here . $5 per family, $3 per individual. Sunday May 19th, 12:00pm to 4pm at the Phinney Center Community Hall. -- PSMS Annual Show - Saturday October 27 and Sunday October 28 It's our biggest event of the year and it's coming this weekend! Click here to read all about it! Ben Woo Memorial Foray 2018 - Friday October 19 thru Sunday October 21 The Puget Sound Mycological Society has decided to make the Ben Woo Memorial foray an annual event. This year's foray will be held the same location as the last 2 years. The facility is called Black Diamond Camp at Mt. Rainier and is located about 30 miles east of Enumclaw just off Route 410 near the Crystal Mountain ski area turn-off. It is surrounded by magnificent old growth forest with unlimited habitat easily within driving distance and mushrooms just outside your door. But there is no need to drive anywhere with plenty of forest to explore within walking distance of the lodge. The cost of the event is $180/person. The package includes two nights' accommodations and 5 meals. This is a non-refundable registration fee. Friday night our presenters will be the extraordinarily gifted mycologist Noah Siegel plus author and culinary artist Langdon Cook. Saturday night's speaker will be PSMS's expert mushroom identifier and nice guy Danny Miller. In addition we will hear from the truffle whisperer Alana McGee. Saturday there will be organized full and half day forays. Foray descriptions and sign-up sheets will be available Friday night after dinner. All-day forays will be provider a sack lunch and will be back by 3:00 pm so those folks can still enjoy the dinner. We will be offering several workshops. Sign up for individual workshops on-line when you register. All registrants must be PSMS members. Click here to register Visit the PSMS Library The PSMS library, with about 750 different books – including Ben Woo's personal collection – is available for members to reserve online. Learn more about the library -- Featured Content If You Suspect a Poisoning Contact a physician or Washington Poison Center: 1-800-222-1222 More Poison Information Spore Prints Newsletter Spore Prints is the monthly newsletter of PSMS containing announcements of coming events and speakers, plus a variety of tidbits, trivia, recipes, and research developments. Spore Prints Archive Harvesting Rules Washington state is divided into numerous federal, state, local and Native American jurisdictions. Learn the proper rules for each jurisdiction. Harvesting Information Upcoming Events Oct 17th & 18th, 2020 Virtual Wild Mushroom Show - click for details Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020 - 7:30pm Virtual Monthly Meeting John Michelotti - DIY Oyster Mushrooms: Easy Indoor Cultivation The link to access this meeting will be posted here by Oct 12th. Learn to grow oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus sp.) indoors using low tech methods on house-hold materials like coffee grounds and cardboard. We will talk about the benefits oyster mycelium has in mycoremediation and ways to create basic experiments. We will also touch on the presence of oysters in the northeastern forests and highlight a few other fungi that occur in New York. John Michelotti is the found...