Category: Mushroom Trading Post
More being with mushrooms, at Saari Residence
2019 was filled with mushrooms. Sweet dessert mushrooms, big fat blue ones, tiny pea-sprout-tasting ones, pretty much any kind of edible mushroom you can imagine. For two months I was an autumn Saari Residence fellow in the Kone Foundation’s country manor near Turku, southern Finland, being taken mushroom-picking by hairdressers,…
mushroom days at the end of the world
This (european) autumn & winter I was lucky to be in Finland – where it gets really cold – in the Australia Council residency at HIAP, Suomenlinna, a 19th century fortress island in the central harbour of Helsinki. I arrived in September, just in time for the last weeks of…