This event is both fun and educational, they have the assistance of Dave Higginson Tranter, who travels the length and breadth of the UK investigating all things fungal.

Fungi are tremendously important to human society and the planet we live on.  Yet, despite their extraordinary impacts on our lives, both directly and indirectly, relatively little is known about them.

Fungi, together with bacteria, are responsible for most of the recycling which returns dead material to the soil in a form in which it can be reused.  Without fungi, these recycling activities would be seriously reduced.  We would effectively be lost under piles many metres thick, of dead plant and animal remains.

Fungi are vitally important for the good growth of most plants, including crops, through the development of mycorrhizal associations. As plants are at the base of most food chains, if their growth was limited, all animal life, including human, would be seriously reduced through starvation.