BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Chicago X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VEVENT UID:65@minnesotamycologicalsociety.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261012T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261012T210000 DTSTAMP:20261005T055612Z URL:https://minnesotamycologicalsociety.org/events/stories-from-the-2026-n ama-annual-foray/ SUMMARY:Stories from the 2026 NAMA Annual Foray DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStories from the 2026 NAMA Annual Foray\n\n\n\n\n With Stena Lieb and Kathy Yerich\n\n\n\n\nJoin Marek Scholarship winner St ena Lieb and NAMA Marketing Chair Kathy Yerich to hear highlights from the North American Mycological Association (NAMA) Annual Foray\, held this ye ar on August 27th - in Marquette Michigan.\n\n\n\nThis zoom meeting is fre e and open to the public.\n\n\n\nMMS members at 2026 NAMA YOOP Foray in Ma rquette\, MI\n\n\n\n\nStena Lieb has been an active member of the Minnesot a Mycology Society for over 6 years and has volunteered to assist on multi ple forays. She loves learning more and more about mushrooms with the seas oned veterans at the forays\, but has also been doing a lot of her own res earch using mushrooms for papermaking. She gave a presentation at the Cloq uet foray last fall and at the Bell Museum for the MMS 125th anniversary. Her endeavors lead a bit more toward the art aspect of mushrooms because s he is an artist and an art teacher. She has. a thirst for knowledge and lo ves teaching about things she learns\, which goes hand in hand when it com es to foraging and learning about mushrooms!\n\n\n\nKathy Yerich has been an MMS member for almost 20 years! She is the co-author of the popular and accessible field guide Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest and credits her men tors\, including Ron Spinosa and the late MarekTurowski for the encouragem ent to join NAMA and to continue to seek mushroom knowledge from many plac es!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentations are recorded and posted a few days late r on the MMS YouTube channel. This meeting is free and open to the public.  \;Members receive Zoom \;links on meeting announcements and remin ders. Also\, anyone can click on the button below and provide their contac t info to be sent the Zoom link for this meeting.\n\n\n[frmmodal-content c lass="frm_button" label="Request Zoom link"][formidable id=47][/frmmodal-c ontent]\n \n\n\nIf you haven’t used Zoom before and don't want to miss anything\, click on the meeting link to download Zoom and familiarize your self with it at least 15 minutes prior to the meeting.\n\n\n\nHow to join a Zoom meeting – You do not need a Zoom account\, but you will need the Zoom app installed on your desktop or mobile device. You can either downlo ad the Zoom app in advance here. Or\, you will be automatically prompted t o download and install the Zoom app when you click on a meeting link for t he first time. \;You can also join a test meeting at any time at https ://zoom.us/test.  \;Watch a video on how to join a Zoom meeting here.\ n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://minnesotamycologicalsociety.org/wp-conte nt/uploads/2026/09/NAMA_Yoop-e1789499839328.png CATEGORIES:Membership Meetings LOCATION:https://minnesotamycologicalsociety.org/send-zoom-link/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR