Fungi for beginners
(and seasonal, sustainable foraging)
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Autumn 2026 fungi day courses
Juliet Hawkins, an enthusiastic amateur and fungi recorder, will provide an introduction to helping you with skills in the field and back at home with respect to identifying the ‘easier’ larger fungi with gills and pores. The courses will not turn you into an expert overnight but is intended to make you feel more confident about identifying fungi.
Thursday 22nd October 9am-4pm at Milden
Monday 26th October 9am-4pm at private woodland nature reserve
Who is the course for? This is the third year of fungi courses for complete beginners and for those who have dabbled with fungi over the years, but never had time to spend on it or have someone to help develop their id skills.
Fees: £25 per course for Suffolk Naturalists’ Society members (join here) or £50 for non-SNS members
Contact us for further information gfhawkinsltd@outlook.com or 01787 247235.
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Fungi talks & forays for groups staying on-site
In the autumn and early winter Juliet Hawkins can provide some fun sessions of varying length for guests staying at Milden. Due to the highly erratic and elusive nature of fungi, indoor illustrated talks and forays would be entirely dependent on the season, the weather and what you would like to cover! Topics that Juliet has explored before include:
To eat or not to eat? Foraging for edible fungi is a lovely concept … but can you really identify what you are picking? Are you foraging sustainably?
Sustainable foraging, cooking & preserving fungi. So what is sustainable foraging, how to best cook your finds, and how to best preserve a glut?
Meet the ‘mushrooms’: Boletes, Milkcaps, Brittlegills, Parasols, Amanitas, Knights, Funnels, Blewits, Clubs, Corals, Earthstars, Puffballs and so many more ….
