Hi, I’m Sam, the new mycology apprentice based at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. I’m only in week 3 of my apprenticeship but already I’m learning there is much more to mycology than just mushrooms! I’ll be spending the next few months learning how to identify macro and micro features of fungi in the field and in the lab, how to use keys (fungi ones are hard!) and how to do fungi surveying and recording. The first few weeks have been a dramatic change to my life, as before this I was working in an admin job mon-fri 9-5 and only dreaming of working in conservation ecology! It’s early days but I’m enjoying all the new experiences so far and hope to blog some of these over the next few months.
