All presentation in Transformation Studio are first come first serve. A line will be formed outside of Ah Haa for this presentation. There will be limited seats so please plan for a different event if this is full.
This presentation begins a follow-up to Mr. Ravage’s 2019 lecture at the TMF “
Towards
Industrial Scale Myco-remediation”.
The results of that study, now published in the Summer 2024 issue of Fungi magazine, will
answer the questions initially posed: How effective can native wood rotting mushrooms be, at
the scale of hundreds of tons, in treating waste biomass? What are the differences, if any,
between commonly used wood-rotting mushrooms at rapid biomass decay?
We then move to other frontiers and some dead ends in myco-remediation. The roles of
fungi in the environment will be discussed and how they can both stabilize and de-stabilize
forest function. This sessions ends with a description of an ambitious cooperative undertaking
with soil scientists: the potential use of ancient mycorrhizal fungi to restore a divergent
grasslands overrun by cheatgrass.
