Thirty-Third year for Colorado's Telluride Mushroom Festival

This year the Telluride Mushroom Festival celebrates all things mycological for the thirty-third year. From guided forays, to presentations and workshops, a parade and a cook-off, there is something for everyone.  The festival is scheduled for August 16 though the 19^th this year and takes place in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado.  Workshops and lectures, cover a variety of topics including mycoremediation, medicinal and psychoactive fungi, how to grow mushrooms, mushrooms used to dye fiber, and, of course, edible mushrooms.  Keynote speakers include Taylor Lockwood, John Holliday, and Langdon Cook.

With a reputation for fun and craziness, this year some serious science is planned. Featured Speakers include our very own Noah Siegel & Christian Schwarz who will be presenting a talk on mushroom taxonomy.  For the first time the event plans to collect mushrooms and submit samples for DNA sequencing. Festival participants will be invited to bring fungi samples to the voucher program science tent. The specimens will be packaged and sent off for DNA analysis as part of an on-going project to identify fungi of the Telluride area. 

Also familiar to some of us is Allisa Allen who will be conducting a workshop, using mushroom dyes for coloring wool and silk.  Last year Allisa did a fantastic mushroom dye class for FFSC members here in Santa Cruz.

For more information:

http://www.telluridemushroomfest.org/program.html