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Meet Your Instructor
Tim Leavitt started picking mushrooms at a very early age. While still riding in a backpack, he searched for Chanterelles in the woods of Oregon with his father. By the age of 12 he was picking mushrooms and selling them to the local grocery store. Before graduating from college he was already working as a mycologist in the school Herbarium and studying with mycologist, Dr. David Hosford.
After college, Tim went to work for Paul Stamets at Fungi Perfecti where he was introduced to mushroom cultivation. At this point in time, information about mycology was difficult to find and Tim was lucky enough to reside in Paul’s yurt and have access to Paul’s library of clandestine information. Later he continued studying taxonomy with David Hosford and acquired a new position as Pacific Northwest Regional Mycologist for the United States Dept. of Agriculture.
Tim’s interest in mycology went farther when he invested in a truffle farm that ultimately failed due to Filbert blight. After the truffiere, Tim found himself the proud stay-at-home father of two beautiful girls. Tim switched his focus from ecology, taxonomy and mycorrhizology and began to concentrate on mastering cooking wild mushrooms. This led to the creation of a book called “Cooking Wild Mushrooms For People Who Don’t Like Mushrooms” and being included in the “Fantastic Fungi Community Cookbook” along with many other mycologists.
Currently Tim is the owner of the Cedar Falls Treehouse a mycology education center in North Bend Washington. He also created the Cedar Falls Mycology Podcast.
In addition to mycology, Tim also enjoys skateboarding, snowboarding, coaching soccer and hunting.
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