Pholiota destruens fungus on cut end of a log
Coral fungus sp.
Fungus
Pholiota terrestris growing in soil
Cystoderma cinnabarina
Cystoderma cinnabarina
Bolete
Amanita muscaria
Fly agaric / Amanita muscaria
Puffballs and others growing on a tree stump
Our leader for fungi walks, Karel Bergmann
Sitting Earthstar / Geoastrum sessile
Mushroom growing on top of a tall tree stump
Fly agaric / Amanita muscaria
Highlight of my day - Fly agaric / Amanita muscari…
Shaggy parasol / Macrolepidota rhachodes
Shaggy parasol / Chlorophyllum (formerly Macrolepi…
Leccinum ochroleucum
Colourful fungus - details seen when cut
Shaggy parasol / Chlorophyllum (formerly Macrolepi…
Bolete
Shaggy parasol / Chlorophyllum (formerly Macrolepi…
Not "The Sickener"
An unexpected find - Shaggy Manes / Inky caps
Shaggy Mane / Inky Cap
Shaggy Mane / Inky Cap
Amanita muscaria, with insects (mosquitoes?)
Honey Mushrooms
Growing in a crack
Mushroom
Mushroom
Brown Cup & Golden Pluteus / Pluteus chrysophlebiu…
Mushroom crack pattern
Hooded False Morel / Gyromitra infula – poisonous
Puffballs on a rotting log
Honey Mushrooms / Armillaria mellea
Mold on a fungus?
Fungus
Mushrooms
Mushroom growing on a log
Yellow mushroom
Fungus
Mushroom cluster
Fungus
Large, white mushrooms
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Edible Lion's Mane mushrooms / Hericium erinaceus,…
Fungi in Fish Creek Park
Fungus
A mushroom day is a good day : )
Fungi family - and slime mold?
Fungi on a tree stump
Fungus guttation droplets
Mycena galericulata in Keith's forest
Treasures of the Ghost River forest - a little bi…
Fungi in the Ghost River forest
Day 3, fungi, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Day 3, fungi, Pt Pelee
Day 3, Dryad's Saddle (?), Pt Pelee, Ontario
Mushrooms galore
Living on the edge
Onnia triquetra (??) and Blue Stain
Let the light shine in
Most likely a Ground Pholiota / Pholiota terrestri…
Beautiful guttation droplets on a polypore
Fungi on a log
Between the cracks
Puffballs / Calvatia sp.
Scaly Pholiota / Pholiota squarrosa
Magpie Inky Cap / Coprinus picaceus?
Magpie Inky Cap / Coprinus picaceus?
Coral Fungus
Orange Peel Fungus, Peyto Lake
Fungus (Dryad's Saddle?), Pt Pelee, Ontario
At the base of a tree, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Dryad's Saddle Fungus (?), Pt Pelee, Ontario
Fungi on the Oilbird Cave trail
Fungi along the Oilbirds trail
Tree stump covered in fungi, Trinidad
Delicate fungi, Trinidad
Fungi seen on the Oilbird hike, Trinidad
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(Yellow?) Morel mushroom
Unidentified fungus
Chocolate chip lichen / Solorina crocea
03 A gift in August
Strawberries and cream fungus / Hydnellum peckii
Showing off its gills
Colour among the mosses and lichens
Picked for demonstration
Decorating the base of a tree
The Sickener / Russula emetica?
Small fungi growing among the mosses
A special treat at Antelope Hill Provincial Park
Mushroom at Rock Glacier
False Morel fungus
Hiding in the shadows
Shingled/Scaly Hedgehog fungus / Sarcodon imbricat…
Hypomyces luteovirens, syn. Hypomyces tulasneanus
A beauty from mushroom season
Growing on a tree trunk
Turquoise fungi / Blue Stain / Chlorociboria aerug…
Fungi goblets
Deadly duo - Amanita muscaria
Puffballs on Plateau Mountain
Rusty Gilled Polypore / Gloeophyllum sepiarium
Yesterday's find
Strap/Coral Club / Clavariadelphus ligula
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Edible King Oyster mushrooms, Akesi Farms
Another 5 photos, taken at Akesi Farms on 18 August 2019, have been added this morning.
Six days ago, on 18 August 2019, I was fortunate enough to make a return visit to a wonderful farm, NW of the city. I left home a few minutes before 8:00 am and arrived back home at 8:00 pm, feeling totally tired out. This was partly because I had only had a couple of hours' sleep the night before, and because it took me two hours to get to the farm. This was the first time I had ever driven myself there, as we had carpooled on the previous two visits. To say the least, I was not at all impressed to see the Maintenance light on my car dashboard come on before I had even left Calgary! After leaving the farm, I took some back roads that had been recommended to me while I was at the farm; roads that I had never driven before. Beautiful scenery, and I discovered a rather nice old log cabin and two or three old rusty vehicles, including a beautiful big, blue bus. I am SO happy that I made myself do both drives. I had to do it, as this is an amazing farm, and I couldn't bear the thought of not visiting again.
This 53 acre farm, Akesi Farms, is a 90 minute drive from downtown Calgary and is near the town of Sundre. It belongs to Meghan Vesey and Kwesi Haizel. It is permaculture based with future crops of eggs, mushrooms, fruits and nuts! Hard to believe that this beautiful place has only belonged to this young, hardworking, enthusiastic couple since November 2014. A tremendous amount of work, thought and planning has already gone into adding to what was already there, with a 'little' help from family and friends.
www.akesifarms.com/
Below is the link to a video about Meghan and Kwesi and the farm, by The Redneck Gourmet Show, 23 March 2017. The video was taken in winter - in summer, the farm is a mass of colour!
youtu.be/Tih5H5uMDNE
Our visit coincided with Alberta Open Farms weekend, where about 100 farms were open to the public. Our Naturalist leader had arranged to take anyone interested in nature on a nature walk, at 10:00 am and 2:00 pm. A very interesting, short talk on the history of Bergen and the area around the farm was given by Marilyn Halvorson, who has lived in the area for many years. Three tables had also been set up - one had attractive barn quilts painted on wood (Jenni Weeks at N50 Barn Quilts). Another had knitted items and quilts from Irene Echlin. The third had produce such as jars of home-made marmalade (from Kettle Crossing Farm), and also green tomatoes which had been grown in a massive greenhouse near Olds. I discovered when I got home that eating just one tomato at a time was not enough, they were so good. This is something I have been very impressed by ever since I first met Meghan and Kwesi. They are very community-minded, helping other farmers, which is so good to see.
We were also shown a small display of several edible mushroom species that are being grown on the farm, Some of them are also growing in a few places around the farm - Meghan's mother very kindly pulled a little cluster of three Wine Caps that were growing in the vegetable garden, for me to take home and try. Of course, I had to take a few photos the other night, before I added them to a Spanish Omelette : )
Check out their mushroom business. They are selling mushroom spawn for if you want to grow your own. They also offer talks on how to do this. The Fante word "Akuafo" means farmer.
www.fungiakuafo.com/
Thank you so much, Meghan, Kwesi and Meghan's parents, for such a lovely day! Great to see new additions to the farm (well done, Kwesi!), as well as all the familiar things, including those beautiful dogs, Whiskey (male Border Collie/Great Pyrenees cross) and Titan (male Great Pyrenees), and your chickens and geese. Too bad we missed the honey created in your beehives. I wish you all the very best - you deserve all the successes that come your way.
Six days ago, on 18 August 2019, I was fortunate enough to make a return visit to a wonderful farm, NW of the city. I left home a few minutes before 8:00 am and arrived back home at 8:00 pm, feeling totally tired out. This was partly because I had only had a couple of hours' sleep the night before, and because it took me two hours to get to the farm. This was the first time I had ever driven myself there, as we had carpooled on the previous two visits. To say the least, I was not at all impressed to see the Maintenance light on my car dashboard come on before I had even left Calgary! After leaving the farm, I took some back roads that had been recommended to me while I was at the farm; roads that I had never driven before. Beautiful scenery, and I discovered a rather nice old log cabin and two or three old rusty vehicles, including a beautiful big, blue bus. I am SO happy that I made myself do both drives. I had to do it, as this is an amazing farm, and I couldn't bear the thought of not visiting again.
This 53 acre farm, Akesi Farms, is a 90 minute drive from downtown Calgary and is near the town of Sundre. It belongs to Meghan Vesey and Kwesi Haizel. It is permaculture based with future crops of eggs, mushrooms, fruits and nuts! Hard to believe that this beautiful place has only belonged to this young, hardworking, enthusiastic couple since November 2014. A tremendous amount of work, thought and planning has already gone into adding to what was already there, with a 'little' help from family and friends.
www.akesifarms.com/
Below is the link to a video about Meghan and Kwesi and the farm, by The Redneck Gourmet Show, 23 March 2017. The video was taken in winter - in summer, the farm is a mass of colour!
youtu.be/Tih5H5uMDNE
Our visit coincided with Alberta Open Farms weekend, where about 100 farms were open to the public. Our Naturalist leader had arranged to take anyone interested in nature on a nature walk, at 10:00 am and 2:00 pm. A very interesting, short talk on the history of Bergen and the area around the farm was given by Marilyn Halvorson, who has lived in the area for many years. Three tables had also been set up - one had attractive barn quilts painted on wood (Jenni Weeks at N50 Barn Quilts). Another had knitted items and quilts from Irene Echlin. The third had produce such as jars of home-made marmalade (from Kettle Crossing Farm), and also green tomatoes which had been grown in a massive greenhouse near Olds. I discovered when I got home that eating just one tomato at a time was not enough, they were so good. This is something I have been very impressed by ever since I first met Meghan and Kwesi. They are very community-minded, helping other farmers, which is so good to see.
We were also shown a small display of several edible mushroom species that are being grown on the farm, Some of them are also growing in a few places around the farm - Meghan's mother very kindly pulled a little cluster of three Wine Caps that were growing in the vegetable garden, for me to take home and try. Of course, I had to take a few photos the other night, before I added them to a Spanish Omelette : )
Check out their mushroom business. They are selling mushroom spawn for if you want to grow your own. They also offer talks on how to do this. The Fante word "Akuafo" means farmer.
www.fungiakuafo.com/
Thank you so much, Meghan, Kwesi and Meghan's parents, for such a lovely day! Great to see new additions to the farm (well done, Kwesi!), as well as all the familiar things, including those beautiful dogs, Whiskey (male Border Collie/Great Pyrenees cross) and Titan (male Great Pyrenees), and your chickens and geese. Too bad we missed the honey created in your beehives. I wish you all the very best - you deserve all the successes that come your way.
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