Sophie (she/her): i'm super excited.
Sophie (she/her): super excited to see everybody here.
Sophie (she/her): fun guy is not you know, not in the plant kingdom.
Sophie (she/her): But it's very related to gardening and we'll talk about why, today, and all the cool things that are associated with it, so i'm really glad that you guys can all make it.
Sophie (she/her): Before we start, I would just say that, as an organization within a land grant institution dig the campus garden coalition at UCLA.
Sophie (she/her): acknowledges the gabrielle ino tanga people's as the traditional care land caretakers of two bomber, including the Los Angeles face and the South Channel Islands.
Sophie (she/her): And we'll get started with justin.
Justin Haggard (he/him): Yes, so first we kind of wind to just give you some fun fun fun fun I have facts and so that was a little hard to pronounce after I just said fun, but fun fun guy packs.
Justin Haggard (he/him): And yeah This is just kind of to give a little overview, but one thing that a lot of people don't know is that we're more related to fund guy, then we are two plants and so fun guys in a separate Kingdom than plants and animals and then it's more closely related to the animal side.
Justin Haggard (he/him): also find guy accounts for about 70% of carbon sequestration underground and so that it they kind of pulled from the roots of plants so they're not doing it all on their own, but.
Justin Haggard (he/him): that's also something that idea know going into this workshop and also what is kind of mind blowing is that in one teaspoon of soil, you can have eight miles of the phone guy filaments in it so yeah they're really tiny and i'm very abundant in soil.
Justin Haggard (he/him): And then next slide.
Justin Haggard (he/him): Okay, and fungi can also be parasitic, so this is kind of one example of that.
Sophie (she/her): Okay, I Sorry, I have to share my sound.
Justin Haggard (he/him): Okay.
Okay.
Justin Haggard (he/him): So this video is just a tiny bit graphic so if, like you, don't like insert maybe just look away for the next three minutes.
Okay.
Justin Haggard (he/him): 80% of.
Sophie (she/her): You are more successful than me that can be 8 million individuals in a single I.
Sophie (she/her): don't have it all their own way.
Sophie (she/her): These bullets are showing some worrying symptoms.
From a parent's.
Sophie (she/her): infiltrated their blockers and then.
Sophie (she/her): it's infected brain directs this and.
Sophie (she/her): Then actually this orientated it grips a stem with its mandibles.
Sophie (she/her): Those afflicted discovered by the workers of quickly taken away and dumped far away from the common.
Sophie (she/her): It seems extreme, but this is the reason why.
Like something.
The fruiting body of the quadriceps erupts from the.
Sophie (she/her): can take three weeks to grow and when finished the tentative spores from from its.
Then.
we'll be in serious risk.
Sophie (she/her): fungus is so prevalent it can wipe out how common is about.
And it's not just me it's the fall victim to this.
Sophie (she/her): These attacks do have a positive effect on the jungles diversity, since parasites like these stop any one group of animal getting.
Sophie (she/her): More numerous species becomes, the more likely it will be attacked by its nemesis.
Sophie (she/her): yeah so that is a little spooky but that's just to kind of give an idea of the crazy intelligence that i'm that I have.
yeah.
Justin Haggard (he/him): And so, here are some cool innovations that have been done with fun guy and some are kind of older ones, and some are newer ones.
Justin Haggard (he/him): So One example is the mycelium bricks that are used for building this is kind of a newer experimental use for fun guy and that's a picture of it down in the bottom there.
Justin Haggard (he/him): And another cool experimental used is fun guy fabric which you can see there's a picture of a shirt there.
Justin Haggard (he/him): And don't really know how that would feel like when i'm thinking of mushrooms and fabric.
Justin Haggard (he/him): I don't know that doesn't seem to go together but it's kind of interesting that people are coming up with like sustainable ways to create clothing and stuff and fun guy can also be used to clean up toxins and one example of this is kind of if there's oil and soils and stuff or.
Justin Haggard (he/him): Petrol or any of that then fun guy can be used to clean up the soils so that's usually it sounds like that's usually used when there's spills are at old.
Justin Haggard (he/him): Like gas station sites and stuff like that, and then used fermentation is kind of one of the oldest and uses a fun guy that humans have had so yeast fermentation.
Justin Haggard (he/him): has been used by humans for about 5000 years it looked like when I was kind of doing some brief research on this and that's both and like alcoholic beverages which is kind of pictured on the top and also in.
Justin Haggard (he/him): The living for bread so kind of when you think of any bread that rises and that also is using hunger.
Justin Haggard (he/him): And then, here we have another video kind of talking about the world the World Wide Web so it's kind of a play on words, and this is where the mycorrhizal fungi.
Justin Haggard (he/him): On the roots of plants provides nutrients to the plant, but then the plant also is able to communicate with other plants nearby and also gives sugars, to the.
Justin Haggard (he/him): To the phone guys as well, and so trees can warn each other about pests routes these you know kind of see some of those examples in this video.
Sophie (she/her): Like solitary individuals.
Sophie (she/her): trees may look like solitary individuals, but the ground beneath our feet tells a different story trees secretly talking trading waging war on one another.
Sophie (she/her): They do this, using a network that grows around inside their roots the funky provide the trees with nutrients and, in return, they receive sugars, but scientists have found this connection runs far demon possessed.
Sophie (she/her): By plugging into the fungal network trees can share resources with each other, the system has been nicknamed.
Sophie (she/her): It stupid all the trees fondly known as mother trees use this fungal network to supply shaded seedlings with sugars, giving them a better chance of survival.
Sophie (she/her): Those trees that are sick or dying they dump their resources into the network, which might then be used by healthier neighbors.
Sophie (she/her): Plans also use for me to send messages to one another, if they're attacked, they can release chemical signals through their roots, which can move their neighbors to raise their defenses.
Sophie (she/her): But, like our Internet the World Wide Web has its dark side to some kids hack the system to steal resources from nearby trees.
Sophie (she/her): and other species, like the black walnut spread toxic chemicals through the network to sabotage their rivals arboreal cybercrime aside scientists are still debating why plants intubate touristic way.
Sophie (she/her): The hidden network creates a thriving Community between individuals when you're next in woodland, you might like to think of trees, as part of a big super organism chatting and swapping information and food on your feet.
Sophie (she/her): Okay.
Sophie (she/her): So yeah.
Sophie (she/her): And just to give a bit of.
Sophie (she/her): Information on what because it's confusing what fun guy are so when we were talking about the mycelium earlier and how the filaments construct for miles.
Sophie (she/her): that's kind of the feelers of the fun guy and that's there's experiments that show them going through mazes and all these crazy things that they they use those filaments to seek out nutrients and find the path of least resistance pretty much so that's how it relates to the soil and.
Sophie (she/her): Working with plants like trees and then the mushrooms, which are most familiar to us like you can see, on this picture mushrooms are just the fruiting body so like an apple to an apple tree it's just the part that comes out and.
Sophie (she/her): Is you know above ground so hopefully that makes sense to anyone who is a little confused.
Sophie (she/her): And, as I was saying before there's some really important benefits that a thriving fun guy community can have on.
Sophie (she/her): You know people and pollinators as we'll see here, so if you want to any of our pollinator workshops before you'll know that they are very important part of being able to grow food and flowers and.
Sophie (she/her): they're just an important part of the ecological community and so honeybees which are one of you know, one of our favorite pollinator friends.
Sophie (she/her): actually have a mite kind of virus that takes over their system called the Varroa mite and it can devastate.
Sophie (she/her): The honeybee communities, so people see as much as 85% of colony loss due to this night so it's a really serious threat, but as.
Sophie (she/her): People have been noticing in studying certain kinds of fun guy like ratio I believe that's ratio in the picture here that you can see.
Sophie (she/her): They have antiviral properties, and so this works, not only for people who you know eat mushrooms, but also for the bees, who interact with them.
Sophie (she/her): And so it boosts the immune system in a way that's able to keep them from dying from the virus and it's yeah it's a really cool relationship.
Sophie (she/her): It helps a lot with central valley farming, as you can see in this picture, something that I learned recently, is that they actually rent out bee colonies, to put in to the.
Sophie (she/her): Farming farming lands so they'll they'll ship them out, for the time they need the bees to pollinate and then they'll track them to the next place and.
Sophie (she/her): I thought that was kind of crazy so clearly, there are a big part of our agricultural system, and I think most of us already knew that, but the part that relates to fun guy.
Sophie (she/her): it's just interesting to see how you know fun guy work with humans and all kinds of animals.
Sophie (she/her): And another huge aspect of fun guy particularly mushrooms is.
Sophie (she/her): Their health benefits in a ton of different ways, so one of the main.
Sophie (she/her): kind of original not necessarily but like one of the earlier developments from.
Sophie (she/her): Studying fun guy is.
Sophie (she/her): The development of antibiotics so penicillin which is like the first antibiotic comes from fun guy so we do all that pretty sure we do.
Sophie (she/her): From vaccines to.
Sophie (she/her): penicillin is like the original like i'm not pre MED but i'm pretty sure.
Sophie (she/her): it's like all started with penicillin so that's really cool another thing is, you might have heard of micro protein which is protein that comes from eating mushrooms, so if anybody is vegetarian or.
Sophie (she/her): Even just have noticed a lot of vegetarian options that places will be like a portobello mushroom or a mushroom patty or something and it's starting to become more popular not to.
Sophie (she/her): And that's because they're full of protein and they have like a crazy amount of health benefits so just a couple of things are that.
Sophie (she/her): certain types of mushrooms, reduce cancer risks they reduce nerve injuries reduce alzheimer's risk they modulate bread blood pressure.
Sophie (she/her): So many things like the list goes on and on and also, I should just say a lot of the information that I found for this was in a book called fantastic fun guy.
Sophie (she/her): So if you want to know more about the health benefits or anything a you can look it up i'm sure it's anywhere on the Internet, but also a really good source, with some credible authors was that book fantastic fun guy.
Sophie (she/her): So yeah there's those kinds of health benefits and then, of course, I felt like I couldn't go through this workshop without mentioning the psychedelic therapy that has gone through different waves.
Sophie (she/her): You know in like the 60s and stuff it was big and now it's kind of starting to come back.
Sophie (she/her): And there's this book called how to train your mind by Michael pollan which talks about a lot of the science behind it and.
Sophie (she/her): Some really cool stuff related to how psilocybin mushrooms can change your mind, so the picture that I have here just kind of shows, and what I think is really interesting, so this is like what's going on your brain was like neural connections and a is like normal and B is with.
Sophie (she/her): conception of psilocybin and it's interesting because it kind of relates to the mycelium networks that developed in the soil, so I just thought that was cool many people use it, especially if they're in late stage cancer or you know serious health conditions.
Sophie (she/her): it's it's it's now a medical.
Sophie (she/her): practice to to use those mushrooms, to help people kind of come to terms with where they're at in life and it's been known to reduce depression and a lot of things so oh very cool.
Sophie (she/her): Okay, now a lot of the people here.
Sophie (she/her): received mushroom kits and.
Sophie (she/her): If you didn't.
Sophie (she/her): that's all good but i'm going to show a quick tutorial of what we will do with the mushroom kits so first of all, watch this video.
Sophie (she/her): Just kind of a.
Sophie (she/her): Quick version.
Sophie (she/her): Okay, so.
Sophie (she/her): yeah maybe i'll stop sharing my screen.
Sophie (she/her): OK, and then.
All right.
Sophie (she/her): So if you've got your mushroom kit just take a second to get that out.
Sophie (she/her): and
Sophie (she/her): Maybe just give me like a thumbs up if you're ready.
Okay.
Sophie (she/her): So you'll need your kit.
Sophie (she/her): A small.
Sophie (she/her): A small like knife to open up a little plastic area and a fork or something like a fork to agitate the mycelium.
Sophie (she/her): and
Sophie (she/her): A bucket of water eventually you don't need it right away if you don't have that but.
Sophie (she/her): Okay, so first.
Sophie (she/her): We will open up the little.
Sophie (she/her): flap area.
Sophie (she/her): Actually opens on its own, I guess.
Sophie (she/her): Like perforated so.
Okay.
Sophie (she/her): So then.
Sophie (she/her): you'll want to lift up your four.
Sophie (she/her): triangle flaps that you have from doing the X.
Sophie (she/her): And kind of just take your fork or whatever you have and just dig into it a little bit to.
Sophie (she/her): To develop this soil.
mixing.
Sophie (she/her): Probably smells exposed to.
Sophie (she/her): And then.
Sophie (she/her): When you're done with that.
Sophie (she/her): It says to soak.
Sophie (she/her): i'm.
Sophie (she/her): also sorry I should have said before, if you just lift up the top part you can grab the.
Sophie (she/her): Little pager directions if yours has that.
Sophie (she/her): You won't kill them I believe in you.
Sophie (she/her): So I have a bowl of water here it's not super full i'm just gonna take my opened up.
Sophie (she/her): Soil and just drop it in soil upside down.
Sophie (she/her): And let this sit.
Sophie (she/her): overnight.
Sophie (she/her): And then.
Sophie (she/her): Basically, once you're done with that and, like I said, if you don't have water with you right now it's okay just make sure that it has.
Sophie (she/her): enough time to sit.
Sophie (she/her): And then.
Sophie (she/her): you'll just dry off the box after that, let it be somewhere, not in to direct light so maybe facing away from wherever the sun comes in for you and then.
Sophie (she/her): Supposedly, it just kind of does its thing.
Sophie (she/her): Add water starts to dry out but, according to the box, you should have mushrooms in like.
Sophie (she/her): say two weeks, so their oyster mushrooms and.
Sophie (she/her): I believe, Charlotte has some recipes.
Sophie (she/her): That she's going to send out if you're like I don't know what to do with mushrooms.
Sophie (she/her): So now, you can get started on your micro protein journey and.
Sophie (she/her): yeah so so when you open up the perforated like paper side you just kind of cut through with a knife.
Sophie (she/her): Sorry, what i'll be doing.
Sophie (she/her): It doesn't have to be too deep just so that the plastic is.
Sophie (she/her): Like opened, then you use a fork and.
Sophie (she/her): Like agitate the soil, a little bit.
Sophie (she/her): So, at first, when you soak it you want to put it into a bowl like I have a bowl here.
Sophie (she/her): With some water.
Sophie (she/her): But then I think if you have a spray bottle think that's ideal for after it's been soaked but, if not just like a plan, I guess.
Sophie (she/her): And yeah.
Sophie (she/her): I think the box has a qr code to that video I just showed if you need to watch it again.
Sophie (she/her): But does anybody else have any questions right now about it, or about.
mushrooms at all.
Sophie (she/her): So to close off today, I wanted to play mushroom Bingo just to go over a few different types of mushrooms so.
Sophie (she/her): We have.
Sophie (she/her): A narky talky truffles truffles are the really expensive tried.
Sophie (she/her): Sean trail for cine jumbo Jim oh also I.
Sophie (she/her): I just got some jumbo jim's on my arm so.
Sophie (she/her): I have like they're my horizon guy and.
Sophie (she/her): And then there is a morale toadstool amanita and talkie.
Sophie (she/her): So it's basically like.
Sophie (she/her): Just like another word for mushroom but also this kind of typically see which is a form of the amanita mushrooms so yeah that's just some mushroom knowledge for everyone.
Sophie (she/her): Is there anyone who didn't get a link.
Okay.
Sophie (she/her): And you guys are still looking at the mushrooms right.
Sophie (she/her): yeah okay.
Sophie (she/her): So.
Sophie (she/her): I believe i'm just going to call out the mushrooms, and if you get a Bingo let me know.
Sophie (she/her): So the first one is an okie talkie.
Vanessa: Can you tell me what a Bingo is is a three in a row diagonal.
Sophie (she/her): um yeah what's the dimensions of the card just three by three right.
Sophie (she/her): yeah just 300.
Sophie (she/her): OK.
Sophie (she/her): next one.
Sophie (she/her): amanita.
Sophie (she/her): And then porcine.
Sophie (she/her): Bingo.
Karen Yi (she/her): yeah.
Karen Yi (she/her): Okay.
Karen Yi (she/her): Good excellent.
Sophie (she/her): All right, i'll just i'll just keep printing them off, so we got those Karen I got one thing.
Sophie (she/her): And then.
Sophie (she/her): So the first one was an okie talkie.
Sophie (she/her): Then there was amanita and porcine.
Sophie (she/her): And then shedrow.
I can't be.
AMANDA BUENO-KLING: Oh yeah yeah.
Yuerong Xiao (she/they): You think.
Sophie (she/her): Okay.
Sophie (she/her): well.
Vanessa: alright.
Sophie (she/her): Well, you guys are mushroom Queens so.