The Mycological Society of San Francisco Fungus Fair includes the latest collection of expertly identified fungi collected in various locations in the Bay Area.
Come to the Santa Cruz Fungus Fair to learn fascinating and fun facts about beautiful and diverse species of mushrooms!
Welcome to the Annual Napa Truffle Festival, where Michelin star chefs from the United States and Europe come together with renowned truffle experts to celebrate the Périgord black truffle.
This three-day weekend is held in January, and is an almost non-stop event with activities, lectures, and workshops focused on learning about wild mushrooms.
The annual mushroom hunt returns to the park! The Bay Area Mycological Society will join LARPD rangers to lead groups into the park in search of fruiting fungi. We will crawl around under trees, wander through meadows, and examine rotting logs to discover how many different types of fungi we can find. Please remember that you may take lots of photos, but mushrooms may NOT be removed from the park! This event will happen rain or shine.
Winter is the time for romping the hills to savor the year’s renewal, when rain graces our parks.
Join us for a fun and fascinating fungi-themed weekend! Dive into the world of mushrooms with hands-on Citizen Science activities, interactive and educational displays from local mushroom societies, mushroom-themed Stories in Bloom program, a fungi-inspired art gallery, and self-guided activities for children.
Join us to discover the mushrooms of Roy’s Redwoods Preserve.
Ever wonder about all those mushrooms you've seen in the grasslands and forests at Point Reyes National Seashore? The Fungus Fair is a perfect opportunity to see them up close and learn more about them.
This wonderful event will engage, entertain, and educate the community about the benefits, joys, and culinary values of fungi!
Join rangers to discover the mushrooms of Stafford Lake.
Mushroom displays, talks, workshops, crafts, ID tables, activities, vendors, food and more. Meet David Arora author of Mushrooms Demystified
Mushrooms are a fascinating subject, and learning how to draw and paint them will also help you learn and practice some fundamental skills that you can apply to drawing all sorts of things including: thinking three-dimensionally, simplifying structure, understanding perspective and foreshortening, how shadow reveals form, and the order of operations to paint a portrait with watercolor.
Explore the mysterious and fascinating world of wild mushrooms in Point Reyes.
We’ll go exploring for the entirety of this class, applying the skills introduced in Part I (on January 13th or 27th), in search of examples of the wide variety of fungi that occurs at Hidden Villa during the rainy season.
We’ll go exploring for the entirety of this class, applying the skills introduced in Part I (on January 13th or 27th), in search of examples of the wide variety of fungi that occurs at Hidden Villa during the rainy season.
A playful introduction to the awesomely strange, wonderful, and utterly essential world of the fungi. This class will be based on slides and collected specimens to prepare us for upcoming field days on February 3rd and 17th (choose either or both).
We’ll go exploring for the entirety of this class, applying the skills introduced in Part I (on January 13th or 27th), in search of examples of the wide variety of fungi that occurs at Hidden Villa during the rainy season.
A playful introduction to the awesomely strange, wonderful, and utterly essential world of the fungi. This class will be based on slides and collected specimens to prepare us for upcoming field days on February 3rd and 17th (choose either or both).
A week-long focused community science effort in celebration of the mushrooms of the Santa Cruz Mountains!
Join the Mycological Society of Marin and us to discover the mushrooms of Stafford Lake.
Join Ranger Lauren on a winter exploration to discover the wonders of mushrooms. We'll take a leisurely stroll through the Upper Meadow and Deer Camp Cutoff Trail, giving you a chance to observe the incredible world of decomposition and learn about the important role that fungi play in this process.
Join the Mycological Society of Marin and us to discover the mushrooms of Stafford Lake Park. We will learn about identification and fungal ecology and document the fungal diversity of the park.
In the middle of winter, liven up your Sunday with an exploration of mushrooms and their kin in the hills of Black Diamond.
James Morris received his Bachelor’s of Science in Environmental Science from Saint Mary’s College of California in 2019, and is now a graduate student in Dr. Brian Perry’s Lab at CSU East Bay. James is researching the degradative capabilities of wood rot fungi associated with eucalyptus trees.
Why do mushrooms grow in circles? Why are mushroom rings historically associated with fairies? Come learn about funky fungi as we search for mushroom rings, and make your own fairy craft!
Explore the fantastic world of mushrooms, mushrooms, and more mushrooms! In the morning, your instructor will lecture on mushroom types, characteristics, where they are found, and how to forage for them. Following this morning lesson the group will go for a site visit in the National Seashore to forage for mushrooms! Expect to share any edibles, which the instructor will ID.
The redwood forest has towering trees, a diversity of amazing mushrooms (with enough rain), and sometimes hibernating ladybugs. Three fairly easy miles.
Nothing is more elusive and mysterious than the wild mushroom. Join us for an introduction to the mushrooms of the Central Coast!
Get your caps on and be prepared to enter our mycelium/fungus season in the Golden Gate National parks!
Prepare to put on your “mushroom goggles” and look at the forest in a new way. This walk lead by naturalist Harold Hirsch will be an introductory mushroom foray.
Join Marin Municipal Water District and One Tam at Lake Lagunitas to document and identify the mushroom biodiversity in this mycoblitz.
Imagine an organism that feeds you, heals you, reveals secrets of the universe, and could help save the planet. It’s mushrooms!
Join Marin County Parks and One Tam at Roy’s Redwoods as we try to identify and document every fungus species we see! Hone your naturalist skills, learn to use the iNaturalist app, and become our scientific collaborator for a day!
Join us for a walk and talk on local mushrooms that occur in our Bay Area woods, lawns and yes, even gardens.
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