Here in the Fungi Forest we get to teach people about some of the native mushrooms that are around us.

So this is a mushroom log.

So these are ways that we can take wood that are in the way, the pathway hanging over telephone poles and we can turn it into gourmet food.

So we drill little holes in here and then we put some of the white mycelium that you see, a kind of in the logs, We put some of that in here from that species, and then we cover it over with wax and that seals it back up and gives it time to grow and consume all of the energy that's in the wood and turn it into a mushroom, which is its fruit body.

It's kind of like an apple of an apple tree, but normally about one season to inoculate the whole log and then the second season it will flush or produce as a mushroom.

That is the chaga fungus.

So that's a parasitic mushroom that the fungus is actually killing that Birch tree.

We walk by this world without even knowing it most of the time.

So that's part of this.

This outdoor classroom and especially the fungi forest, is to give some of these trees, some of these things that we walk by, their names and some of that respect that that that they deserve to be there so we can keep those going on for generations.

The Slice from PBS North