Gardening Australia Fungi Friendly Gardening (NEW TIME)

Sapphire McMullan-Fisher will be on Gardening Australia Friday March 25 discussing fungi friendly gardening. View the show then join us after for a Q and A with a panel mycologists and gardeners.

All donations go to Fungi for Land. Fungi for Land is bringing together a team of international and Australian experts on land management, conservation, and fungal ecology, we are creating Australia’s first book on practical land management harnessing the mysterious mycological kingdom. https://fungi4land.com

Speakers:

Sapphire McMullan-Fisher

Sapphire is an ecologist who has special interest in the conservation of biodiversity, particularly the macrofungi and mosses. 

She has been active with Australian scientific groups like the Australian Network for Plant Conservation, Australian Bryophyte Workshops,  Education Subcommittee of the Australasian Mycological Society,  and numerous community groups including many fungi groups, field naturalist clubs and Landcare groups. She is involved in Greening Australia’s Habitat Conservation and Management Course and the new Victorian Nature Stewards program. To read more about her research profile in Research Gate and LinkedIn.

Having lived in four states and traveled across Australia’s landscapes she has been involved in many of the fungal community groups over the years.   She particularly enjoys getting out into the bush to discover fungal treasures as often as she can.

Gold Tufts (Cyptotrama asprata, left) is Sapphire’s favourite fungus. It is delightful from the baby cushion tufts to the mushrooms with their pure white gills.

Roz Hart

Roz is an ecologist with a range of working experience from teaching Microbiology at the University of WA to running an Environmental Consulting Business with her husband Ray. 

More recently she worked as the Community Education officer with Mycologist Dr Neale Bougher on the Perth Urban Bushland Fungi project in WA, a project that raised awareness of the importance of fungi in bushlands, concentrating on Urban bushlands and opening many people’s eyes to the wonders of fungi.

She lives in Perth, close to Kings Park which is Perth’s iconic bushland park. Roz enjoys being a volunteer Guide at Kings Park,  where she encourages and educates other guides and the public about the importance of fungi in the bushland.

She loves bushwalking and exploring all over Australia and New Zealand looking for fungi, constantly learning more about our amazing Biodiversity, which she knows comprises at least 3 Fs: Fauna, Flora and Fungi!

Tasha Nichols

Tash Nicholls is happiest when outdoors. Besotted with the natural world from a young age, growing up exploring the coast lines and bushland of the Mornington peninsula, it makes sense that foraging for and growing her own food has grown from a passion to a career. Tash runs a small scale suburban micro-farm, Margaret's Mushrooms, is a keen citizen scientist, volunteers with MYCOmmunity and supports Fungi for Land, FunFungi Ecology, Fungimap Australia, Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance, Open Food Network and the Australasian Mycological Society. She also works part time as a lab tech for national supplier of fungi culture and spawn, Australian Mushroom Supplies.

Ema Corro

Ema Corro loves everything about fungi and is always amazed by their ability to increase people’s sense of connection with the natural world. She believes that the best way to protect the environment is to involve the community in all aspects of science and conservation. She is President of MYCOmmunity Applied Mycology which is an organisation that aims to raise awareness of the importance of fungi in health, sustainability and the environment, as well as providing scientific training and resources to the community. She is also project leader on the Wild Fungi DNA project which is developing environmental DNA techniques that citizen scientists can use to search for rare and endangered fungi. She has also researched using waste to produce sustainable mycelium-based construction materials