The fungus among us

LIBERTY, NY — There will be a workshop on mushrooms led by Peter Podaras on Sunday, March 22 at 1:00 p.m. at the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Sullivan County at 64 Ferndale-Loomis Road. The topic will be how to grow shiitake mushrooms using oak logs. The hands-on workshop will cover selecting the correct woodspecies for different types of mushrooms, how to inoculate a log and care of the logs to produce a mushroom crop.

The cost for members is $17 and $20 for non-members.

For more information call 845/292-6180.