This Month's Talk

After the event: Andy brought us a fascinating talk, with plenty of hard science for the initiated, and interesting anecdotes to whet the appetites of beginners to fungus identification and surveying. We were interested to learn that the fields at High Greenwood, part of the National Trust Estate, are ranked very highly, in fact fourth in England for their score in fungus biodiversity

Our National Trust contact Natalie Pownall  invited us to a couple of events coming up:

  Woodland by night, wildlife watch at Hardcastle Crags. Here’s the link to the website. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/events/98b62237-587d-4377-b581-361f4e35f5fc/pages/details or https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/hardcastle-crags FREE

Booking available for the night walk on Friday 14^th September

-        Wax Cap Workshop study days 4^th – 5^th October. Meet at Gibson Mill 10am Thursday 4^th October for morning training followed by an afternoon identifying wax caps in the field! Friday 5^th October meet at Hollin Hall for full day in the field studying wax caps using keys. The aim is to provide training in ID skills and habitat condition assessment in order to enable future “in-house” monitoring of the Hardcastle Crags grasslands. Training and workshop are for interested parties able to commit to surveying wax caps at Hardcastle Crags annually thereafter. Maximum 25 people. Booking required via Natalie.Pownall@nationaltrust.org.uk