Tickets will be available at the door (cash or eventbrite)
Sunday, December 7, 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
When the first rains tease up the chanterelles and porcini, fungus lovers head to the Fungus Fair: A Celebration of Wild Mushrooms.
The December 2025 MSSF 53rd Fungus Fair will display fungi collected in various locations in California. Annual collections have been made by MSSF since 1972. This historical information is a potentially important contribution to science as climate change affects our local ecosystems.
- Creative and hands-on mushroom activities for people of all ages. Dyes, Clay, Sunprints
- Lectures: Chad Hyatt, Daniel Winkler, Kathi Meier, David Arora, Mai Lovaas, Reggie Harris, Thomas Garrett, Christopher Hobbs
- Workshops: Jack Laws, JR Blair, Eleana Hsu, Alan Rockefeller [Each Workshop requires an add-on ticket, in addition to your general admission ticket. Space is limited.]
- Naturalistic displays of more than 300 species of locally collected fungi
- Identification table - bring your specimens to find out the species!
- Educational tables on varied subjects such as medicinal mushrooms, myco-remediation, cultivation, ecology, psychedelic fungi, dyes from fungi, toxicology, edible mushrooms, and more...
- Microscopes and spore prints
- Vendors with fun mushroom products
- Mingle and meet other mushroom loving people.
- Come and try a bowl of delicious mushroom soup.
- Book signing by the authors.
- The Fair provides information on the uses and abuses of fungi, with displays and exhibits on ecology, toxicology, and cultivation. Campsite gourmands learn how to serve up the safe and scrumptious species through identification tutorials, and sales of books, teas, snacks, and fresh edibles.
