Edible Plant and Mushroom Photo Contest!
Thursday, April 8, 2021 at 4:52PM As part of ThINC's 2020 Community Sustainability and Resilience Youth Program, ThINCpod member, Aislinn Cottell created a handbook guide to the wild edible plants and mushrooms on Thetis Island! Each entry includes two photos and a description with details on edibility and harvesting precautions. The handbook currently contains 28 species, and we hope to expand it over the course of time.
As the handbook was created towards the end of the growing season, our current identification photos are creative commons sourced, and that's where you come in! Over the summer, we will be subbing out these photos with local Thetis Island images, and we would love your help. Over the coming months, please share your best plant and mushroom pics with us. We will be needing two photos per species: one that shows the entire plant, providing scale and overall shape, and one showing a close-up of the leaves, flowers, fruits, gills, etc. Please refer to the existing handbook photos for examples, as well as the list of species we are looking for.
Wild Edible Plants and Mushrooms of Thetis Island Handbook:
https://910a9ce4-f1fe-410b-b719-d6d404b97bb0.filesusr.com/ugd/a5ed41_d5eae58e851b4b908b1e40bdac3cac37.pdf
Contest Rules:
- Contest is open until September 20, 2021. (Feel free to send them anytime before then!)
- Any part-time or full-time resident of Thetis Island may enter
- Entry method – email your photo(s), subject line “Wild Edible Plants and Mushrooms of Thetis Island” to aislinn@thetisislandnatureconservancy.org. Please include your full name and the plant/mushroom species depicted
- Image requirements: JPEG high resolution
Winners will be contacted by email the week of September 26th, and names and winning images announced on the ThINC Facebook page. The updated handbook, complete with new photos and credits, will be posted to the ThINC website in October 2021.
Looking forward to seeing your work!
Charlotte F
