Creepy Critters Day at Creamer's Field on Saturday had a fungus among us. Anna Kindberg of the Fairbanks Mycological Society ran a booth in the farmhouse where visitors could touch and smell all kinds of fungi, while families in the craft room made their own mushrooms and practice spore prints. There was even a guided walk through a fresh skiff of snow. Read Kris Capps' story in the News-Miner.
Our take: Kindberg told the paper this community is full of fungophiles, and honestly, she's right. Every August half the town disappears into the birch woods with a basket and a story about the one that got away. Mushroom season is over now, so the spore prints were stand ins, but it sounds like a great warm up for next summer. Creamer's Field keeps coming through with low key things to do with the kids, and we love that about it.
One thing we know about walks at Creamer's this time of year is that half the field comes home on your boots. If the entryway is starting to look like a trail, The Alaska Cleaning Company can get the floors and carpets back in shape. And if the garage still has summer gear and old projects piled up before the snow gets serious, Good Hand Co. can find someone to help clear it out.
Photo: the Creamer's Dairy barn at Creamer's Field in Fairbanks. By Harpyr at English Wikipedia, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.