I started getting interested back college. I took a few biology courses and was confused why their was so little research and information available on fungi compared to animals or plants. From their, I started buying field guides (my favorite so far is the 2021 edition of the Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America) and using websites like iNaturalist.org, mushroomobserver.org, and mushroomexpert.com to try to start identifying the species I came across while walking through the woods.

If you happen to live in Eastern North America, another good resource is a man named Adam Haritan. He runs a website and a YouTube channel called Learn Your Land and has dozens of great videos on how to ID both edible and non-edible/toxic species in Eastern North America. He also has an online course that covers edible fungi species using a similar video style to what you can find on his YouTube channel but with much more detail. The course costs a few hundred dollars, but I can attest that it is very thorough and designed to be accessible to people with no prior info on fungi.