The Shiitake log inoculation workshop will be held this Saturday (March 22) at 1:00 p.m. at the Ferguson Township Lion's Club just west of Pine Grove Mills, PA. GPS coordinates: N 40.73046, W 077.89590. This is a hand-on workshop so wear work clothes (bring safety glasses if you have them.) Also you will want to bring a couple of trash bags to put over your log before putting it in your vehicle since the logs will have wax on them which can make quite a mess.

Dues are now being accepted for 2014. We have a great year planned and the schedule will be posted soon! Feb. 22nd wine tasting and talk at Happy Valley Vineyard 7-9 PM. There will be an additional cost for this event and I'll have that info to you next week. March date for the inoculation workshop has not been determined yet - having difficulty with procuring a site. If any members have a place we could hold this, give me a shout. The Bill Russell Foray will be August 22-24 at the Seig Conference Center. More info to come.

Bill Russell Book Signing

Belladonna Herbs
921 Pike Street
Lemont, PA 16851
1-3 pm Saturday Dec. 7, 2013

Is anyone out there familiar with Calocybe gambosa. The mushrooms I found have the right morphology, spore print and habitat for St. Georges mushroom. It is a locally common early spring mushroom in Europe but has also been reported in North America and it is not uncommon for some early mushrooms to fruit in late fall. I eliminated all the listed lookalikes I could find. Pictures on the net varied somewhat - the ones from France were spot on. If they pop up in the same spot first thing next spring that should nail them down.

Allegheny-Clarion school address is:776 route 58,Foxburg,pa 16036.Foxview road is just beside school.If your gps won't work with everything else I put on blog.Chris

use 600 Foxview Road,Foxburg,Pa.16036.That is very close to where we will be.It is Riverstone farms where meeting is.It is where they give carriage rides.The road is just beside Allegheny-Clarion Valley school.If all else fails,my cell no. is:814-316-1040.Chris Cicciarelli

For members who did not attend our annual foray at the Sieg Center, I want to extend my thanks to all for the honor of naming the event after me. The woods have been too dry for mushrooming at my stomping grounds, so I'm looking forward to visiting the woods for some serious fungus foraging at our meeting next Sunday. Bill

meeting 9-15-13 Foxburg.At Riverstone Farm[old Fox estate] Dr.Arthur and Patricia Steffee owners. I'm not up on gps much,but apparently different gps' take different coordinates,so here are four sets:lat. 41.13989 long. -79.671907,set no.2, lat. N410823 long W794018. set no.3 lat. N4108.393 long. W7940.314 set no.4 UTM X is 17N611459 Y is 4555136. Hope these make sense.Chris C. meeting is in H barns.