Alison Pouliot – Alison Pouliot Photography

NEWS

UNDERGROUND LOVERS has been nominated as Readings non-fiction book of the month. Read review here.

UNDERGROUND LOVERS BOOK LAUNCH

Please join us for the launch of my new book, Underground Lovers: Encounters with fungi on Wednesday 15 March at Radius Art Gallery in Hepburn Springs. Please see here for further information and bookings.

Or view the Underground Lovers trailer.

Further book launches will be held in:

Melbourne, VIC, on 17 March 2023

Hobart, TAS, on 29 March 2023

Bicheno, TAS on 30 March 2023

Lockwood South, VIC on 18 April 2023

Apollo Bay, VIC on 20 April 2023

Gellibrand, VIC on 23 April 2023

Mulligans Flat, ACT on 28 April 2023

Orange, NSW, on 10 May 2023

Wooragee, VIC on 19 May 2023

Mansfield, VIC on 7 June 2023

Tilba, NSW on 30 June 2023

AUTUMN 2023 MUSHROOM FORAYS & EVENTS

The 2023 autumn mushroom events are now posted here. Bookings can be made directly with the workshop hosts listed with each event. I look forward to seeing you in autumn!

VIDEOS

Spineless wins an award at the Nature Without Borders International Film Festival.

A new video on a recent fungus foray in Wooragee by Stephen Curtain here.

A new video about Slow Mushrooming by Jacqui Schulz here.

BOOKS

THE ALLURE OF FUNGI – Read reviews and purchase here.

WILD MUSHROOMING – Read reviews and purchase here.

UNDERGROUND LOVERS – Read reviews and purchase here.

Underground Lovers: Encounters with fungi

FOR ALL EVENT DATES AND DETAILS PLEASE SEE HERE

Online Fungus Workshops

UPDATE ON AUTUMN 2020 MUSHROOM WORKSHOPS & FORAYS

Given the current situation, fungus forays and workshops in the next six weeks have been postponed until 2021.

Workshops scheduled for June 2020 will be reviewed in the coming weeks.

Meanwhile, a series of online workshops have been scheduled. We really hope you can join us!

MUSHROOM DISCOVERY WORKSHOP

Although the world is in lockdown, the fungi are running riot out there in the forest! The recent rains could mean we are in for a bumper fungus season. This online workshop introduces participants to the diversity, ecology and curiosities of the Kingdom Fungi. In the first part of the workshop participants will learn how to recognise the major fungus morphogroups; the various parts of different types of fungi; and the features used to make identifications in the field. We will then work through participants’ specimens and identify them and discuss them. Don’t forget to bring along some fungus specimens.

Further to the workshops, you might also be interested in some recent podcasts and articles as listed below.

PODCASTS & ARTICLES

RRR Uncommon Sense with Amy Mullins, listen here.

ABC Fungi for a Healthy Planet with Robin Williams, listen here.

The Age Newspaper, Fungi aplenty equals a happy garden, read here.

Sydney Morning Herald, Fungi bring life to dark places, read here.

THE ALLURE OF FUNGI, by Alison Pouliot

Read reviews and purchase here.

SUNDAY 26 APRIL, 10:00–12:00 WORKSHOP BOOKINGS FULLY BOOKED

FRIDAY 1 MAY, 2pm–4pm WORKSHOP BOOKINGS FULLY BOOKED

SATURDAY 2 MAY, 2pm–4pm WORKSHOP BOOKINGS

COST: $20

FURTHER INFO: bookings@fungiaustralia.com

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Fungi for a healthy planet

Big Ideas with Paul Barclay. ABC RN.

The Magic of Mushrooms recorded 10 March 2019 WOMAD Planet Talks with:

Dr Brian Pickles -Lecturer in Ecology University of Reading

Dr Alison Pouliot – Ecologist and ANU Honorary Fellow

Dr Michael Hornblow – Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Design University of Tasmania.

Gavin McIntyre Co-founder of Ecovative Design

Host- RN’s Robyn Williams

Hear the panel recording on ABC RN here.

Hear the panel recording here

For Sale

Ramsar Wetland

Breathe

The Forest of Numbers

The Forest of Numbers

When trees are marked with paint, usually a fluorescent cross, it means they are destined for felling. Yet these numbers were obviously painted for another purpose.

I soon discovered that the numbered trees are part of a scientific study to look at exchanges between trees and soils. In the interim, almost every other tree more than a few years old in this part of the forest has been felled. The numbered trees were spared for their ‘research value’ and have since taken on a new significance, a perverse reminder that we can count in two digits, the last remaining trees.

Heading South

Heading South

Bramblings (Fringilla montifringilla) breed in the forests of Russia and Scandinavia. As from September, they migrate south in the millions in search of beech nuts.

Migrating birds have lots to contend with. Physical objects such as television and mobile phone transmission towers obstruct their flight. But more insidiously, the effects of climate change can alter birds’ delicate seasonal clocks.

Warming temperatures in many regions also change plant growth patterns, throwing biological cycles out of sync. Nothing operates in isolation. Climate change can disrupt relationships and the timing of critical life events.

Given the expected decline of European beech due to climate change-induced drying, beech trees are expected to disappear in these low-elevation forests.

What then will these birds eat?

745 Bäume

745 Bäume

On 16 June 2017, a group of protestors who were protesting against the proposed A5–Westast Autobahn attached posters with the words ‘irreplaceable’ in French and German, to the 745 trees that will be felled should the project go ahead.

If you stop at just one of any of those 745 trees, gaze into it branches and recognize its worth, the enormity of the loss becomes apparent.

Yet some still struggle to comprehend the value of old trees, preferring lorries and concrete, noise and pollution and a fractured town.