If you like mushrooms and live around the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois, this is your club. 
We’re not exactly a club. Southern Illinois Mushroom Co-op members are local mushroom growers, wild mushroom foragers, organic farmers, professional mycologists, nature photographers, naturalists and anyone else who appreciates nature and 
        mushrooms. We like to forage for mushrooms 
        together occasionally. We also hunt alone. We utilize
        social media. We meet throughout southern Illinois
        once in a while whenever we want to meet as a 
        group, but we have other lives.
        We pay no dues. Some of our members cultivate 
        edible mushrooms for sale at local restaurants and
        markets. We never sell wild mushrooms. We share
        our mushroom knowledge on the Web and at 
        gatherings and learn whatever we want to know,
        including undiscovered facts about nature and science. 
Here’s what fascinates us: Mushrooms and other fungi in North America are still surprisingly undocumented by science. New species are waiting to be documented everywhere. Maybe in your backyard. 
Here’s where ordinary people can help. 
The mushrooms we find anywhere in nature
might be undocumented species. That’s 
part of our mission. Sometimes we help 
scientists discover new species by reporting 
our finds.
And some of us just like to eat. 
Beyond that, we simply are who we are.    
And every one of you is welcome to join us.http://www.fs.usda.gov/shawneeshapeimage_2_link_0
Let the people forage.

illinoismushrooms.com Jan Sundberg NEXT SIMCO EVENT:
Giant City Early Summer Foray
June 7-8, 2013      
Touch of Nature Environmental Center Makanda, Ill.
Free--public invited JOIN TODAY!
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