I learned things which I probably never otherwise learn.   I was expecting it to be interesting, but it was 10 times everything that I thought. 

I learned about different sorts of mushrooms - gilled mushrooms and polypore ones, which have tubes underneath where they release spores. Renee showed us some of the places you can find them and told us some different names of fungus like 'Dryad's Saddle'.  We also might have found a rare mushroom.

In the Art session I learned from Alice that you can make ink out of several natural things including ink cap mushrooms, oak galls and walnut shells. In the art session got to have a go with using all those inks making art inspired by mushrooms and spore prints. It was very creative, and I experimented with making the ink run across the page like mycelium. Other people drew detailed pictures of fungus with the natural inks or made potato prints inspired by mushrooms too.

I would really recommend the fungus walk and making it was really interesting, fun ,and interesting and brilliant. More young people could come on these days because they’re really interesting.