Let's get together IN-PERSON! Mark your calendars and REGISTER for this unique opportunity to meet Gabrielle Cerberville, @chaoticforager, Author of the newly released book, Gathered! 

The meeting will be held at Mount Rainier Nature Center.

• Our President, Tom McCoy will start us up with meeting business
• In-person ID table! Bring your mushrooms (or lichens) and learn their identity from our team of identifiers!
• Culinary Chair, Cindy Connelly Ryan, and the committe will delight us with a hospitality table
• Enjoy a riveting lecture by Gabrielle Cerberville

Book description: 

From “the Internet’s Mushroom Auntie,” a stunning, illustrated guide to foraging and the bounties to be had, both personal and edible, in exploring the world around us and using the gifts it has to offer in our lives.

With this book as a guide, readers will learn to find, identify, harvest, and process wild food to use in their own kitchens and develop a greater kinship with the natural world. A memoir with recipes, color photos, and illustrations throughout, Gathered is an invitation to move beyond our comfort zones, open our eyes, and dig into the earth.

Bio: Gabrielle Cerberville, otherwise known as Chaotic Forager and sometimes as the Internet’s Mushroom Auntie, is a celebrated foraging educator, community mycologist, and climate advocate based in the Charlottesville area.

Known for her informative, funny, high-energy social media content, which has gained her nearly two million followers across platforms, Gabrielle has given keynotes, classes, and forays around the country. Gabrielle researches the intersection between art, science, and our responsibility to understand, protect, and communicate with the natural world

See you all there!