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Author: Robert Courteau

Robert Courteau is the creator of Think Fungi, a non-profit organization dedicated to fungi research, education and conservation. Robert is also the President of the Ottawa Mycological Society and a member of the North American Mycological Association’s Culinary Committee. Until 2013, Robert was a chef which led to his foraging of wild mushrooms and subsequent tumble down the rabbit hole of all things fungi. Robert likes to personally welcome every person who joins the Think Fungi community.
Great North American FungiQuest

The Largest-Ever Fungi Bioblitz Is Here

By Robert Courteau, Aug 25, 2022

Fungi serve an invaluable role in our ecosystem. They provide humans and a huge variety of insects and animals with top notch nutrition, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. They are the decomposers of our ecosystem and they provide us with medicine. They raise our bread, turn grain into beer, grapes into wine … Read more “The Largest-Ever Fungi Bioblitz Is Here”

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