Join us at Utopia Fest for a UV Night walk workshop to learn how all mushrooms are magic.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
FRIDAY, MAY 5 at 11:30 AM
Join us to learn why all mushrooms are magic. We will show you how to recycle mushroom blocks donated by local farms to build healthy soil, sequester carbon, increase water retention, feed the soil web, your plants and eventually you! This workshop will cover the basic mycology and then we will show you low-cost and low-tech ways to recycle the organic matter back into the soil and also grow delicious Vitamin D filled culinary mushrooms!
ABOUT THE NIGHT WALK
SATURDAY, MAY 6 at 8 p.m.
Join us a night for a family friendly walk to explore the diverse, nocturnal ecosystem of the festival with UV flashlights to look for night pollinators, glowing plants, fungus, lichens and more.
Guests will learn how fungi is entangled in the garden helping plants gain water and nutrients, creating the pigments that give flowers their beautiful colors, to helping plants communicate with pollinators. We will have a UV flashlights you can purchase. (Recommend 365 nm spectrum.)
As always, we will be giving away recycled mushroom blocks, and reishi mushroom tea will be available so bring an insulated mug. Get creative with glowing outfits, face paint and don’t forget your camera and tripod.
Learn more here about how some plants, mushrooms, lichens and insects have evolved color patterns that are visible in the ultraviolet portion of the electromagnetic light spectrum, which humans cannot see but many insects, birds and animals can see.
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