The Big World of Tiny Fungi

Description

Artworth and local artist, author and community mycologist, Jan Thornhill, will present two engaging biodiversity talks at the Aron Theatre Co-op. The Big World of Tiny Fungi is an introduction to the smaller species of fungi that aren’t as much use as food for the belly, as morels are, but their beauty could be considered food for the soul. Though many are so small you either need the eyes of an eight-year-old or a hand lens to see them, most are decomposers so, once you start looking, you can find them almost anywhere – on logs and twigs, on soil and leaves, on needles and nuts, on grasses and moss, and – thank goodness or we’d be buried in it! – on dung.