Membership Benefits

Aside from the fun-filled personal interactions and life-long friendships you will for as part of our group, club membership includes all of the following:

• Six issues of our newsletter, The Mushroom Log, which contains a wealth of information including: news items, details on mushroom hunts (forays) in Ohio and across the country, recipes, identification and articles with tips on location, season and habitat.  Paper copies will be mailed to those members who select that membership option.
  
  Editor: Dave Miller, Oberlin College. David.H.Miller@oberlin.edu
   
• Access to the Members Only Portion of the Website (Coming Soon):
   
  • Access to the most recent copies of the newsletter (general public is delayed 3 issues)
  • Access to member's only articles written by Dick Grimm from a pothunter's perspective
  • Additional benefits as they are implemented.
     
• Participation in one or two weekend forays and several one day hunts. At our forays, we collect, identify and display as many different kinds of mushrooms as we can find. A good weekend could yield over 300 species. We also have slide programs, educational talks, and the learning experience of socializing with amateur and professional mycologists.
   
• Identification service.
   
• Associate membership discount in the North American Mycological Association (NAMA), a national amateur mushroom organization. Membership is regularly $35.00, but through the club, it is $32.00.

Our current membership fees are as follows:

• $15.00 annual family membership (newsletter via email and website only)
• $20.00 annual family membership (newsletter via paper, email, and website)
• $150.00 life membership (newsletter via paper, email, and website)

For more information, email jsp@pepera.net, or phone him at (440) 279-0611.

To Join: Simply fill out the Membership Application form and mail it along with your membership dues to:

Ohio Mushroom Society
c/o Jerry Pepera
8915 Knotty Pine Ln.
Chardon, OH 44024