Which is why they suggested finding an organization/association

How does one start searching for an organization/association? My first instinct, and pretty much everyone I know’s first instinct, would be to search online for a mycology group, which is likely surrounded by other highly SEO optimized AI generated mycology group website. And then you go to a meet that doesn’t exist, and you try the next group you found online and find that group doesn’t exist, ad infinitum.