This is a specialist Field Mycology and Mushroom Foraging Course.
The course is perhaps more suited to people who already have experience identifying mushrooms, rather than novices. Not suitable for children under 12 years.
Craigengillan Estate is part of the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) Biosphere Reserve and boasts 3000 acres of new and ancient native woodlands, pasture, wetlands heaths and lochs.
Your course leaders will be the top Mycologist, Attila Fodi and WFUK’s awesome foraging instructor Jordan McKeating!
On this course you will learn how to identify many interesting fungi. These will include plenty of edible species, which our foraging instructors will discuss in detail, plus many other inedible and poisonous fungi, including little brown mushrooms, polypores, crusts and many other fascinating species which we hope to find along the way.
The course is designed to help you identify a wide variety of fungi in the field, often with the help of books and chemical tests.
As with our normal courses, this will start with a talk on the rules of foraging and how to collect properly. 
We will then set off for roughly a 2.5 hour, slow-paced hour walk, discussing and collecting what we find. We will then stop for a wild food late lunch, prepared by our foraging instructors. This will be followed by a detailed identification of the various species collected on the walk, where you will be taught how to identify species that are a bit more unusual than the mushrooms foragers normally collect.
After the course you will receive course notes by email, listing everything found on the day.
For your day, we recommend you bring:
- Comfortable, weather appropriate clothing and footwear
- Note pad and pen
- Water / drink to stay hydrated
- Camera
Please note that 3.30pm is only an approximate finish time, which may alter depending on circumstances on the day.
Toilets are available at this venue.
Nestled deep within the grounds of Craigengillan Estate, sit two beautifully restored cottages and luxury self catering Glamping pods.
If you would like to make this course into a weekend away and receive a 30% discount on your stay, please email:[email protected]
Find out more about the accommodation here.
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