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Fall 2024 "Hildegard Hendrickson ID Clinics" at CUH are done for the season!
Thank you to everyone who participated and helped out. See you in the spring!PSMS Inclusivity Statement
For over fifty years, the Puget Sound Mycological Society (PSMS) has nurtured collaboration amongst its members for an understanding and appreciation of the wide diversity of mushroom species in the Pacific Northwest. We also depend on a diverse membership to support our mission to foster the understanding and appreciation of mycology as a hobby and a science. In recent months, as systematic inequality in U.S. society is revealed to a broader audience, it becomes clearer that inequality imposes barriers on marginalized groups to participation in a wide variety of activities. PSMS opposes all barriers that limit participation in mycology. PSMS and its board members support a more diverse, inclusive, and welcoming organization where all people, especially those who are underrepresented in our organization and society at large, can enjoy mushrooms and all of the activities associated with them. We realize this will be an on-going conversation and are looking to our members for suggestions on ways to increase diversity, inclusivity, and welcoming. Thank you as we join together to make this long-overdue journey toward systemic equality!
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Upcoming Events
2024 PSMS MEMBERS HOLIDAY MEETING
Date: December 10, 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Cost: $10 per member
Place: UW Center for Urban Horticulture
Our December MEMBERS ONLY meeting (no Zoom) will be a PSMS hosted "Holiday Bash". This event will include light finger foods and alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. COVID restrictions have been dropped, so masking is optional. We will have hand sanitizer available. Doors will open and check-in will begin at 7:00 PM.
This will be a good opportunity to share your mushrooming foraging successes after an outstanding fall mushrooming season and to get to know others in the club. Books and mushroom-related merch will be available. Once again, we are renting the atrium and garden areas to allow people to spread out, get some fresh air and mingle in small groups.
This event is hosted by your PSMS Board (past and present) and provides an opportunity to meet them as well as our Committee Chairpersons.
Since space is limited, we require pre-registration to attend. Sign-ups will begin on December 1 and you will be receiving a special announcement in your e-mail providing details on signing up. All Attendees must already be current members; we do not accept membership dues or renewals at this event. We are sorry but there are no refunds if you register but do not attend.