Book Discussion at The Shed: Entangled Life

August 21, 2025
7:00 p.m.

Join us for this event in our series celebrating fungi.

Emily Whitmore, Spring Green Community Library, will be hosting this casual and lively discussion of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds at The Shed, 123 N Lexington St, Spring Green, WI 53588. She will be joined by mycologists who will share their insights and answers to your questions.

This award-winning and bestselling book is an exploration of this astonishing kingdom of life. It reveals how fungi — and our relationships with them — are changing our understanding of how the world works. Bringing to light science’s latest discoveries, Merlin points us toward the fundamental questions that fungi provoke about the nature of life, intelligence, and identity.

When we think of fungi, we probably think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that support and sustain nearly all living systems. The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. 

Sheldrake’s mind-bending journey into this hidden world ranges from yeast to psychedelics, to the fungi that sprawl for miles underground and are the largest organisms on the planet, to those that make all plant life possible, to those that infiltrate and manipulate insect bodies with devastating precision.

Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. By examining fungi on their own terms, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms – and our relationships with them – are changing our understanding of how life works.

You can buy the books from our friends at Arcadia…or get them at the Spring Green Community Library!