Foraging For Wild Gourmet & Medicinal Mushrooms
Learn And Get Certified!
- video presentations: 41
- field recordings: 20
- quizzes: 1
- printables: 2
- Q&A Support
About This Course
This is an online training course discussing 30 wild edible, medicinal, and poisonous mushrooms together with their look-alikes found across the temperate, Mediterranean, or boreal climates. This mushroom course is dedicated to all beginner fungus enthusiasts wanting to learn how to correctly identify wild gourmet and medicinal mushrooms.
If you love being outdoors and always wanted to learn about wild food, this is a great opportunity for you to learn how to safely collect and identify gourmet and medicinal mushrooms. In addition, this course gives you the opportunity to get certified as Wild Mushroom Hunter serving you as evidence that you have learned and have a degree of experience in working with wild mushrooms.
Mushroom hunting is more than a passion -it comes with benefits on multiple levels. Whether you find yourself looking for treasures in the woods, cook flavorful meals or prepare healing potions and elixirs this will put a smile on your face whenever the rain comes.
You’ll be learning valuable skills that you may use wherever you go for a lifetime. Just to name a few: where to find mushrooms, how to correctly identify them, how to collect and preserve them, or how to cook them.
Who is this for?
- Total beginner fungus enthusiasts interested to forage for wild edible and medicinal mushrooms
- Healers wanting to forage for medicinal mushrooms
- Bushcraft enthusiasts interested to forage for wild food
- Those interested in wilderness survival food
What this program has to offer?
- You'll be able to understand how fungus identification works and what macro-morphological key characters to use in your own gourmet and medicinal mushroom identification
- You'll be able to take your ID journey to a deeper level learning about micro-structural features of mushrooms This will provide you with a clear ID (this requires the use of a microscope)
- You'll learn how to ID edible, medicinal and poisonous mushrooms.
- You'll get certified
Why enroll into this?
- To start a wonderful mushroom passion powerful enough to change your life.
- Because you are bound to nature and want to harvest and enjoy wild food
- Because you want to make your own healing potions by using medicinal mushrooms
- Because you want to cook unique flavorful dishes
- Because you'll be able to identify some of the best edible and medicinal fungi in the wild
- The certificate you'll get will serve you as evidence that you qualify to enroll in some other learning programs
THE MUSHROOM HUNTER STARTER PACK
The basics of mushroom hunting
- Wild mushroom uses
- 10 mushroom hunter rules
- The collecting gear you'll need and how to collect mushrooms
Mushroom identification characteristics
- The mushroom identification language (terminology)
- Identification characters
- Fleshy fungi characters
- Shelf fungi characters
Fungal microscopy
- Terminology
- Working with the microscope
- Structures of the hymenium
- Structures of the flesh/context/stalk
- Structures of the pileipellis
Gilled mushrooms
You’ll be learning how to identify some of the best edible mushrooms out there including their look-alikes.
Mushrooms without gills
Many interesting non-gilled mushrooms are considered functional foods (they’re both, edible and medicinal) – this will teach you how to recognize them in the field.
Medicinal mushrooms
This training module teaches how to identify medicinal mushrooms throughout the woods and talks about their medicinal effects
Bonus
Cooking wild mushrooms is an art! They have a strong distinct flavor and different types of wild mushrooms require different cooking methods. Some are best sautéed, while others are better grilled or stir-fried; however, simple recipes is the way to go when you fully want to feel their flavor and texture. Pairing them with complementary flavors from ingredients like garlic, or herbs can enhance their taste. Here you’ll also find a collection of simple recipes that you can try at home to fully enjoy your wild mushroom harvest.
Instructional Videos
Field Recordings
Printables
Quizzes
Q&A Support
Certificate
Here's What You'll Learn
- How to correctly identify 30 wild edible, medicinal, and poisonous mushroom species
- Discussion on their lookalikes
- Wild mushroom uses in general
- Things to know about mushroom collection and collecting gear
- Mushroom collection ethics
- Mushroom hunter rules
- How to make your personal mushroom herbarium
- Mushroom identification terminology and how to read professional mushroom descriptions
- How to describe what you see in the field and how to take notes using printables
- Where to find and how to identify some of the best tasting mushrooms of the world
- How to forage for medicinal mushrooms
- Fungal microscopy -essential for accurate mushroom identification
- How to cook with mushrooms (flavor, texture, shelf-life, storage, etc) & more
About Your Instructor
I hunt for wild gourmet and medicinal mushrooms since I was a kid. With over 35 years of experience in this field I’m ready to share with you what I have learned during this time so you can start your own wild mushroom journey under my guidance.
Find out more about me
– Daniel Tura, mycologist
Get Your Mushroom Hunter Certificate!
This training provides you with a mycologist endorsed mushroom hunter certificate. However, in order to get it you’ll have to pass a rigorous wild mushroom knowledge test. Through this test you’ll demonstrate that you’re able to correctly identify over 15 edible and medicinal mushroom species and that you’ve gathered some general beginner experience in hunting for local mushrooms. More details on how to get certified will be provided once you sign up for this mushroom foraging course.
READY TO GET STARTED?
Sign up for it today and you’ll get access to valuable knowledge
Wild Mushroom Training Starter Pack
$97
- video presentations: 41
- field recordings: 20
- quizzes: 1
- printables: 2
- Q&A Support
- Free updates
- Certificate
Training Modules: 21
(8 hours & 33 mins. of video material)
Access: instant
one time purchase
FAQs
You get instant access to the first week of the training then gradually you’ll get access to the rest of the material.
No, but you have lifetime access to them
The info includes the following: video presentations (power point presentations), field recordings, quizzes text, printables, and short stories.
Depends on your current experience. If you know less than 20 mushrooms species don’t have any clue about microscopy or want a mushroom hunter certificate and want to learn more from a mycologist -these would be enough reasons to sign up for it
For answers to your questions please contact me via the contact form
Reviews
Very Good Course !!!
I found this course to be very in depth, all the important information and more to get someone started foraging with confidence. The course also is a great resource for someone to refresh and expand knowledge into the micro structures and to take oneself further into the field of Mycology. For myself, i plan to get certification as an identifier and this course is the perfect starter to gaining the knowledge needed to progress. Dont hestitate ! Take the course !
