{"id":1833,"date":"2024-08-11T18:50:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T23:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2025-04-21T14:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T19:52:06","slug":"foray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=1833","title":{"rendered":"Foray"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just got back from the Central Pennsylvania Mushroom Club\u2019s<\/a> annual weekend-long foray. This might be the nerdiest thing I\u2019ve ever done outside a work context, and I say this as someone whose main hobbies involve medieval recreation and science fiction conventions. I am delighted!<\/p>\n

\"Cluster<\/a>
Mushroom Foray<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After a too-hot and too-wet week, it was a lovely weekend to be outside. I had great conversations with interesting people, and listened to talks on chestnut blight, bolete identification, and on medicinal mushrooms. And of course, we collected and identified a whole lot of mushrooms.<\/p>\n

\"Two<\/a><\/p>\n

I learned a bunch of new mushrooms, and got to try a new-to-me mushroom as well, the lilac bolete Boletus separans<\/em>. There was a huge flush, and the expert who gave the bolete talk, Greg Marley, collected a pile and cooked them up for breakfast. Delicious! <\/p>\n

\"Table<\/a><\/p>\n

But that’s not all! I made several sheets of mushroom paper, to varying success. The birch polypore paper turned out very brittle, but the darker mixed violet tooth polypore and Berkeley polypore paper is great. I have a whole basket of dried birch polypores from last year, so I may give it another try on my own. I printed myself a copy of this year’s foray art, although on regular watercolor paper.<\/p>\n

And! I won a huge batch of mushroom-dyed yarn in the silent auction. It was dyed at a previous foray, and the person who had it hadn’t done anything with it, so into the auction it went. I also came home with a lovely dyer’s polypore to do some dyeing experiments of my own. I still haven’t found any on my own, but Greg gave me the one he found. <\/p>\n

The timing is pretty horrible for me most years, so this is the first foray I’ve attended despite being a club member for four or five years, but I had a grand time and will definitely try to attend again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just got back from the Central Pennsylvania Mushroom Club\u2019s annual weekend-long foray. This might be the nerdiest thing I\u2019ve ever done outside a work context, and I say this as someone whose main hobbies involve medieval recreation and science fiction conventions. I am delighted! After a too-hot and too-wet week, it was a lovely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-doing-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1871,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/1871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}