| Re: East Sussex Fungi Group
Having noticed the title of this thread and then perused the posts with interest (and occasionally a twinge of horror), to return to Leek's original message, there is now an established ABFG Sussex group, operating predominantly in West Sussex but with an increasing number of East Sussex members.
The Association puts considerable investment into its new groups and also extends cover for Public Liability insurance (mandatory now for an awful lot of woodlands), so we ask new recruits to become ABFG members, which helps support the charity.
The members of the Sussex group are ordinary folk with an interest, basic and otherwise, in fungi, but the group leader is an experienced field mycologist and members are in safe hands. The downside for you, perhaps, is that it is not a 'foraging' group as such. Edibility is somewhat down the list although if edibles turn up, we are not averse to taking them home for tea. If you join an ABFG group you learn to recognise fungi as fungi! That way you help their conservation, one of the ABFG's main roles in life, and probably stay alive a wee bit longer.
Michael Jordan
CEO Association of British Fungus Groups  |