NOTE: This event will be mostly in English, but also Finnish is used if needed. :)

Mushrooms are rising up with full power and it is time to get to know more of them!

Welcome onto a basic course for you who wants to know more about edible mushrooms in southern Finland and how to recognize, pick and use them. In this field trip you´ll learn more about the delicious culinary treasures of the nearby forests and your mushroom-hawk-eye will definitely sharpen. Expect to be surprised how exotic mushrooms of the forest can be!

We will focus on: edible mushrooms and their look-a-likes and to the ones you should be aware of: the toxic species.

Take with you:

• Outdoor clothing and shoes, an airy basket, little snack and a water bottle.
• A knife, note equipment and mushroom literature is also useful.
• The guide Tuomas can provide a few baskets and mushroom knives. In case you dont have a basket, bring a container if you wish to carry mushrooms home.

Forest next to Villa Elfvik is a valuable area in the capital region. It is a mixed forest with humid spruce grown locations as also dry pine dominated cliff areas. The area was a quarry until the 60's and since the forest has grown. The topographic differences, tree species diversity and minerals from the rock create good living conditions for mushrooms to grow.

The guide has put up a mushroom exhibition in Villa Elfvik that is open for the whole Sunday 10-16. Welcome to meet diversity of the forest mycelium queendom <3.

The guide also celebrates his 10 year lasting guiding calling that started in Villa Elfvik on 2014! Welcome to celebrate! :)

Cost: 35e

Discounts:

• Unemployed/low-income/students/pensioners: 28e (discount code "opiskelija2" in the webstore, when buying the participation)

Maximum amount of participants: 15

Meeting point: In front of nature house Villa Elfvik, Elfvikintie 4

Time: Sunday 15.9. KLO 16-18:45 (2h 45min)

Physical length of the tour: 1,5-2,5km

Guide: Nature source product advisor, environmental biologist and biology teacher (MsC) Tuomas Lilleberg

More information of Tuomas

Photos: Mira Lainiola