Fungi for beginners
(and seasonal, sustainable foraging)
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Autumn 2025 fungi day courses
9.00am - 4pm on 16th & 23rd October, 5th November 2025
At Milden Hall near Lavenham.
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’ macro-fungi with gills and pores. The course will not turn you into an expert overnight but is intended to make you feel more confident about identifying fungi.
Who is the course for? This is 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.
Course fee for single standalone days or series - Suffolk Naturalists’ Society members @ £25 per day, Non-SNS members @ £50/day booked or £130 for all three days.
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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 ….
