Outside of the animal kingdom, our closest relatives are the fungi. Fungi can do all sorts of amazing things; they can grow large enough to cover entire states, can be used to make packaging materials, can be used for bio-remediation, can glow with an otherworldly luminescence, and they often can be eaten (And they are delicious).

Think you’re a Fun-guy or a Fun-gal? Let’s do some DIYmycology. We’ll be bringing in a few kits from Ecovative/GROW bio (https://grow.bio/) for people to make their own sculptures and teddy bears. We’ll do a demo of growing your own oyster mushrooms at home. And we’ll play around with culturing mushrooms from the store or environment to be grown in a lab space. And we’ll try to come up with a few surprises as well.

Beyond our demos and experiments, we encourage people to take advantage of the drink specials provided by our hosts, the Empirical Brewery Taproom.

Come, enjoy some great conversation, explore the biology of a strange and wonderful kingdom of organisms, and have a great time with us!