Fungal restoration in the Mallee

In May 2025, we asked our friends at MYCOmmunity and Fungi4Land to show us how to do fungal restoration the right way.

Nearly 120 people registered for the series of three webinars! Here are the resources from those webinars:

Webinar recordings

Session 1: Fungi ecology, problems & ID - Recording

Session 2: Restoration techniques - Recording

Session 3: Fungal restoration in the Mallee considerations - Recording

Fungi spores for restoration - How to

We are very lucky to have access to this document in draft form ahead of the Fungi4Land book which should be out later in 2025. (Please be aware that this draft document is still making its way through fullscientific review).

Inside this guide you can find:

• Why use spores for restoration?

• The basics of how to collect fungi spores for restoration.

• Procedures to add spores to plants in the nursery and in the bush.

• Mycorrhizal mushroom spores for restoration, identification and collection.

  • Puffballs

  • Pretty mouths

• Restoration using animal scats.

• Designing and implementing monitoring of trials.

Thank you:

MYCOmmunity - We aim to increase community awareness about fungi and support citizen mycology.

Fungi4Land - Our guide will focus on integrating fungi into current management tool kits. We know that healthy bushlands are resilient due to the myriad of interactions between our animals, fungi, plants and microbes.

This project is funded by the Victorian Government through a Landcare grant from the Mallee CMA.