Melany Kahn


This month's general meeting will be held on April 16th at 7:30pm at the Randall Museum located at 199 Museum Way in San Francisco. Our speaker will be Melany Kahn, who wrote the children’s book “Mason Goes Mushrooming”.
A social hour with mushroom identification will begin at 6:30.
If you can't make it in person, the Zoom link is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89184389640?pwd=N2x0V25JNkZaRHZoQ3VBVGJyYURuZz09
 
Curious about the best ways to introduce children to the benefits of mushroom hunting? Melany Kahn quells common fears and puts the “us” in mushrooms, by weaving simple education through playful, fungi-finding adventures. It’s never too early to learn, and never too late to start a family interest in mycology. Melany will discuss simple ‘beginner’ mushrooms, showing which ones to tackle and how, and discuss the many fungal treasures that are not necessarily edible but are fascinating to children. These range from the beauty of turkey tails to the magic of blue-staining Boletes, to stinkhorns (eeew!), to making spore art with gilled mushrooms. The possibilities that the mushroom kingdom offer our kids are endless. The program will be interactive with plenty of room for Q and A through the chat.

Author Melany Kahn started hunting for mushrooms in Vermont in 1968 when her family settled on a farm in West Brattleboro. She attended Wesleyan University, (BA, English/Creative Writing). She holds a Masters in Social Work from Boston College and MFA in Film from The Tisch School at NYU. Melany lives in New Hampshire with her husband and children, and you can find her leading mushroom walks or foraging at every opportunity. “Mason Goes Mushrooming” is her first book.

Website: www.masongoesmushrooming.com

Tedx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rsJRKqBjTM

A podcast: Flora Funga Podcast 97: You're Never too Young or Old to Start Foraging.