Wild & Local: Mushroom Foraging in Southern California

For anyone who has wondered what edible mushrooms grow in Southern California and how to find them, this one’s for you. Ben Charny is bringing more than four decades of hands-on SoCal foraging experience to SDMYCO for a practical talk on finding edibles in our region. This talk will include: when to go, where to look, what to target, and what to leave behind. Ben Charny has been finding…

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Mushrooms in Summer: A Cooking Demo with Darren Debergh of Border City Ferments

There are few ingredients that do more in a kitchen than a mushroom, and at our July meeting, chef and fermenter Darren Debergh is going to show us exactly why. This one is a cooking demo, so expect real food, real technique, and a lot of umami. Darren Debergh has spent more than 20 years as a professional chef, and somewhere along the way he traded the line kitchen for the fermentation…

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