Functional Fungi Seminar with Attila Födi at GCWG

Join us for 2 hours seminar on Functional Fungi with expert Mycologist Attila Födi and discover history and benefits of medical mushrooms .
 
Functional Fungi- The Things you never dared to ask about Medicinal Mushrooms.
The history, and current applications of Medicinal Mushrooms is a vast topic. The latest encyclopaedic work contains more than 1,500 macrofungi (fungi which are visible by naked eyes) with known medicinal potentials. It contains their traditional and modern applications, the historical sources about their usage and their isolated main active compounds. It is almost 1300 pages long. Unfortunately for most of you, it was written in Chinese (same as most of the monumental works about the topic). Lucky enough, I am one of the few who can read both the Classical Chinese sources and contemporary Chinese texts too. 
The Iceman and His Mushrooms
In 1991 at the Ötzal Alps (Austrian-Italian border area) a frozen, mummified body of a man was found. He lived about 3300 BCE, but the thick ice conserved his body (and possessions) amazingly. He was named after the location as Ötzi.
This workshop starts with two - nowadays well-known - mushrooms which were found amongst other things with Ötzi.
About the speaker:
Attila Fodi is a field mycologist, has been a registered, qualified mushroom expert of the National Food Chain Safety Office (Hungary) since 2014. Attila is a member of both the Hungarian and British Mycological Societies. He provided Mushroom Training courses in Hungary, UK and Ireland in the last couple of years. Since he joined the Wild Food UK team (2022), he provides Field Mycology Courses in various locations in the UK under the umbrella of one of the biggest foraging companies of the country.
He is often invited speaker of various conferences and mushroom events (e.g., the 3rd and 5th UK Medicinal Mushroom Conferences, and the Bristol Fungus Day 2019). His main research area is the medicinal properties and application of mushrooms. Several articles, introductory booklets and some of his books have been published in Hungarian, and have been translated to English, Czech and Slovakian languages.
TIME:
1pm- 3pm
 
PLACE:
GRANTON CASTLE WALLED GARDEN
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