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So, long Gary Lincoff...
He taught me a lot about plant science, mushrooms and the importance of keeping a daily botany journal. His enthusiasm and passion were contagious. I hope his last days were filled with curiosity, exploration, and poetry. Read his obituary in the NYTimes, here.
Tubaria species and Gary Lincoff on a Mother’s day walk with NYMS in High Rock Park.
Book of December: Fascinating Fungi of New England by Lawrence Millman
Book of December: Fascinating Fungi of New England by Lawrence Millman
Book of December I never thought that I would develop a fondness for fungi, but alas, I have. Don’t get me wrong, I still don’t know them well, but am in the continual process of developing a deeper appreciation for the fruiting bodies I see and the mycelia that probes beneath the surface forever in search of nutrients. For a beginner like me, Fascinating Fungi of New England by Lawrence Millman…
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Her friends, local foragers and their partners, arrive, and Viljoen immediately serves deviled eggs with field garlic, and what she half-jokingly calls "weed bruschetta," toasted homemade sourdough bread topped with sautéed and bitter tasting nettle, dock and field garlic greens. The discussion ranges across many topics, including the large amount of mushrooms Gary Lincoff, a local mycologist and minor celebrity in foraging circles, identified this spring.
NYC Is Your Salad Bar: A Day In The Life Of An Urban Forager: Gothamist
Ha! Our own NYBG Adult Ed Instructor Gary Lincoff got a shout-out in this terrific Gothamist piece as a "celebrity in foraging circles" (I won't tell him, lest he get a swelled head).
Regan Penaluna's profile on Marie Viljoen's urban foraging practice is well worth a read. If you want to learn more before dodging park rangers to pick your next salad, check out our own conversation with another NYBG Instructor, Leda Meredith. ~LM
I was wandering around Central Park looking for mushrooms and hell of pondering my life (desolated and angsty as get out) when I found these guys.
Gary Lincoff, my host for a night, author of the Audubon guide to Mushrooms, and reigning Myco-Records Keeper for Central Park said that it's probably a first record for the park.
The small size, growth on ground (not wood), and very dark gray-brown universal veil at the base of the stipe look good for V. taylori, a name I got from another recent collection made by Patrick Leacock, near Chicago.
June 24th: Fungus installation in John Cage's MUSICIRCUS!
I teamed with the New York Mycological Society (NYMS) to create FORAGING, a multi-location, sound, science and social installation exploring fungi and the people who love them. Passionately dedicated to mycology (the study of mushrooms and fungi), the NYMS began some 100 years ago and quickly went defunct under mysterious circumstances. The society was galvanized in 1962 by avant-garde composer John Cage, a mushroom enthusiast who asserted that “one can learn much about music by devoting ones self to the mushroom.” FORAGING will be presented on Sunday June 24th from 10am – 9pm, beginning in Central Park with a Mushroom Walk lead by New York Botanical Gardens instructor Gary Lincoff, and then traveling to Brooklyn to be part of John Cage’s MUSICIRCUS, an event in which disparate artists perform unrelated pieces in the same room at the same time. FORAGING’s contribution to MUSICIRCUS will be an interactive fungal display featuring specimens culled from the Mushroom Walk. Ensconced by the sounds of John Cage’s 49 Waltzes for 5 Boroughs and lit by nature videos, I will host the FORAGING display in character, channeling Mrs. Lucien M. Underwood -- a real life turn-of-the-century mushroom enthusiast whose throat was slit by the New York Mycological Society’s first President.
FORAGING Location Details: Mushroom Walk Lead by Gary Lincoff Sunday June 24th, 2012 9am – 1pm. FREE for FORAGING participants! Meet at 10 a.m. on the corner of Central Park West and 96th Street in New York City. Bring a bag lunch and an empty egg crate with which to hold mushroom specimens. MUSICIRCUS at Roulette Sunday June 24th, 2012 3pm, 5pm and 7pm. FREE to all! 10 minute performances where I channel Mrs. Underwood will be presented at 3pm, 5pm and 7pm on the hour. FORAGING will be on display throughout the whole MUSICIRCUS (from 3-9pm). Roulette: 509 Atlantic Ave (On the corner of Atlantic & 3rd Aves) in Downtown Brooklyn.
FORAGING Participants: Mushroom Walk lead by Gary Lincoff. Six of John Cage’s 49 Waltzes for 5 Boroughs performed on three speakers by Emily Harris and Paul Sadowski. Nature Videos by Juniper Perlis. Fungal Display built by Philip Lam. Microscopes provided by Guy de Baere at the New York Microscopical Society. Conceived by Natalie Elizabeth Weiss.
