Fungus Fair 2019 - Program Schedule
The Fungus Fair has two main speaking venues: the main room (Room 3) is where you'll find our headliners and cooking demonstrations. Entry passes to the main room will be available outside the room 30 minutes prior to the scheduled presentation.
A smaller lecture room (Room 1) down the hall has informative and educational talks about mushrooms, given by local, knowledgeable mycologists. The schedule for these rooms is listed below.
Visit the Kid's Room (Room 7) mushroom activities such as clay sculpture, water colors, face painting, and making mushroom dyed fabric. Join us Saturday and Sunday 10:00 – 4:00.
You can also ask questions about mushrooms you have brought to the fair in the main auditorium at the mushroom identification table, staffed by our best identification experts.
Friday, January 11, 2019
Room 3
| 2:30 - 4:00 |
Best of mush-roaming's eco-adventures exploring the world's exotic destinations for medicinal, edible, bizarre and colorful fungi |
Daniel Winkler |
| 5:30 - 9:30 |
After Hours Mushroom Dinner - separate admission |
Details and Reservations |
Room 1
| 2:15 - 3:15 | California, Land of the Year Around Mushroom Forage | Noah Siegel |
| 3:30 -4:30 | An Introduction To Mushroom identification | Phil Carpenter |
| 4:45 - 5:45 | An Introduction into Mushroom Cultivation | Justin Pierce |
Saturday, January 12, 2019
Room 3
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Herbal Spirit Medicine The ancient use and modern scientific research of the benefits of psilocybin and an overview of the genus of Psilocybe mushrooms for healing and health |
Christopher Hobbs Ph.D. |
| 12:30 - 2:00 | Hallucinogens as Entheogens How hallucinogens have the potential to make the world a better place |
Michael Beug |
| 2:30 - 4:00 | Medicinal Mushrooms of North America Theories of why mushrooms hold great medicinal promise for practical uses |
Daniel Winkler |
| 4:30 - 5:30 |
Cooking Demonstration |
Chef Chad Hyatt, Jeff Emery |
Room 1
| 10:30 - 11:30 | An Introduction To Mushroom Identification | Phil Carpenter |
| 1:30 - 2:30 | Mushrooms of the Sierra Nevada Mountains | Thea Chesney |
| 2:45 - 3:45 | The Top Ten Edible and Poisonous Wild Mushrooms | Douglas Smith |
| 4:00 - 5:00 | Civilizations' Ten Most Dangerous Fungi | Christian Schwartz |
Sunday, January 13, 2019
Room 3
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Hallucinogens as Entheogens How hallucinogens have the potential to make the world a better place |
Michael Beug |
| 1:00 - 2:30 | Longevity The life history of Medicinal Polypores |
Noah Siegel and Christian Schwarz |
| 3:00 - 4:30 |
Herbal Spirit Medicine |
Christopher Hobbs Ph.D. |
Room 1
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast | Noah Siegel |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Flavorful, Fancy, and Foul Fungi from Far Flung Forests | Daniel Winkler |
| 1:30 - 2:30 | All you wanted to know about mushrooms and how to cook with them. A question and answer session. |
Chef Chad Hyatt Phil Carpenter |
| 3:00 - 4:00 | Mushrooms of Mexico | Alan Rockerfeller |