Bonus Speaker | Olga Tzogas: Mushrooms and Culture of Greece

Please join us on March 18 for our second talk this month!

FFSC members will reconvene a second time, to learn from another interesting speaker. The location is tentatively set for Special Noodle. Monitor the FFSC Google Group for details in March.

Would you like to get to know the speaker better? Join us at 5pm for a quick dinner, prior to this event. As this is an extra event this month, please wait for a message to go out to the Google Group, and then reply to that email if you're interested in joining the speaker for a meal.

About the Speaker

Olga Tzogas of Smugtown Mushrooms, based in Rochester, NY returns to her ancestral home to interact, learn and connect deeper to the mycelial communities, and the people still practicing traditional ways of life or those creating a new.

Greece is typically pictured by blue bird skies and matching crystalline seascapes, but Greece is home to lush dense forests of several Oak species, Chestnut, Beech, Fir, Sycamores and Pine to name a few. The life they harbor is exquisite. See the similarities of fungal life that are shared on both continents. Together we see a visual depiction of the funga, flora + fauna of this diverse ecological haven of the country of Greece. Experience the diverse and lush natural world of Greece is its ancient forests, traditional land based living still exist, providing a rich culture weaved within nature itself.

Connections to fungi are ever present and it’s only gaining more attention. Take a look into the relationships the locals have with certain species of mushrooms, plants, & their recipes for use.