Free lecture:  7:30 Wednesday November 19 Tinicum Municipal Building

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Mushrooms

(but didn’t even know to ask)

Mushrooms and other fungi are mysterious, important and fascinating. Neither plants nor animals, they play important roles in the lives of both. This presentation with slides will let you in on lots of inside information about these little-known organisms.

Dr. Marion (Martie) Kyde has shared these secrets with garden clubs, nature clubs, Master Naturalists, nature centers, watershed groups, and schools since 1995. Her doctoral dissertation at Rutgers University was on endomycorhizzae ( come and learn what they are) in a 45 year-old Tinicum successional forest. Dr. Kyde has served on the Tinicum Open Space Commission, Tinicum EAC, and spent 16 years on the Tinicum Conservancy Board. She also directed the Tinicum Creek Watershed Conservation Plan, Tohickon Creek Watershed Conservation Plan, Tinicum Township Regional Biodiversity Study (Roaring Rocks/ Creek), Tinicum Creek Headwaters Study, Little Tinicum Creek Riparian Restoration Study, and the Lower Tohickon Creek Greenway Study, and is currently the Vice Chair of the Lower Delaware River Wild and Scenic River Steering Committee.

Martie is a singer, calligrapher, cardmaker, quilter, gardener, and pushover pet parent.