Save the date
Other upcoming winter programs by the Tennessee Valley Chapter of Wild Ones include:› Feb. 15: “Save the Pollinators, Save the World” with Ann Brown and Craig Walker› March 5: Annual Native Plant Symposium, featuring keynote speaker Larry Mellichamp (early registration discount through March 1)
Tradd Cotter, founder of Mushroom Mountain, will deliver a lecture and conduct a workshop this weekend.
Tradd Cotter is the author of “Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation.”The Tennessee Valley Chapter of Wild Ones and the Tennessee Aquarium will present mushroom expert Tradd Cotter in two programs this weekend.
Cotter is a mycologist (an expert on fungi) and founder of Mushroom Mountain, a world-class laboratory and research facility in South Carolina that houses more than 200 species of fungi. Among the missions of the facility is to offer creative ways to apply cultivation skills for food production, mycoremediation of environmental pollutants and natural alternatives to chemical pesticides.
Cotter also is the author of the best-selling book “Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation.”
First up is a lecture, “Soul Mates for Life: Native Plants and Their Fungal Partners,” from 6 to 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 8.