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Training

Upcoming training on mushroom picking is divided into three parts

  • Training-1: Beginner.
  • Training -2: Initiate
  • Training -3: Expert

Each training course consists of eight modules, with 35 slides per module, games to promote understanding and memorization, and assessment tests. Following a successful final exam, a training certificate is awarded to each participant.

Beginner training will go online in mid-july of 2017. The two other courses will be added in 2018 and 2019 respectively.

 

Training -1: Beginner

  • Module 1: Mushroom vocabulary.
  • Module 2: Species vocabulary.
  • Module 3: Ecology vocabulary.
  • Module 4: Ecological concepts and development stages.
  • Module 5: Features of the six large groups of mushrooms.
  • Module 6: Major species for picking, where and when to pick.                           
  • Module 7: Main toxic mushrooms and various types of poisoning.
  • Module 8: Picking equipment. 

 

Training -2: Initiated

  • Module 1: Mushroom vocabulary, advanced concepts.
  • Module 2: Features of the main mushroom families.
  • Module 3: Life cycles of mushrooms and trees.
  • Module 4: Forest habitats and populations.
  • Module 5: Mushrooms by season.
  • Module 6: Commercial harvesting.
  • Module 7: Companionship, symbiosis and parasitism.
  • Module 8: Mushroom names.

 

Training -3: Expert

  • Module 1: Photography, a modern means of identification and data collection.
  • Module 2: Identifying Boletes.
  • Module 3: Identifying Polypores.
  • Module 4: Identifying Amanitas and Parasols.
  • Module 5: Identifying Morels, Verpas, Pezizales, and gelatinous mushrooms.
  • Module 6: Identifying mushrooms with gills.
  • Module 7: Identifying truffles and other globular mushrooms.
  • Module 8: Identifying mushrooms with teeth.