50th Anniversary Santa Cruz Fungus Fair
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Kingdom Fungi
3,000 – 4,000 species in California
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Meetings, Forays, Classes and Workshops
Fungiphile: an avid partisan of various things related to mushrooms and mycology
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Explore local mushrooms, both deadly and delicious, at the 50th Anniversary Santa Cruz Fungus Fair. View hundreds of regional species, have your mushroom finds identified, hear notable speakers, enjoy activities for kids young and old, visit our vendors, and sample delicious mushroomy treats during our three-day event.
Find out moreTo foster and expand, through education and by example, the understanding and appreciation of mycology and to assist the general public and related institutions to further this goal. And to always keep the “fun” in fungus!
Find out moreMushrooms fascinate us! We hunt for scientific interest and for the table, encouraging a sense of wonder regarding one of the least-understood segments of our environment. Monthly meetings, guided local and long-distance forays and identification classes.
LearnMushrooms: we find them all over. They are ubiquitous and mysterious, common and rare, delicious and sometimes deadly. Mushrooms are among the oldest living things on earth, and a significant theme and resource in almost every human culture over the past 10,000 years. Want to know more? You are already a fungiphile.
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To aid in promoting education we offer full and partial scholarships to members needing financial aid or who express a deep interest in mycology, and students pursuing an interest in fungi at various educational institutions.
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Justin Pierce, our Minister of Video, can be found at most FFSC events with at least one camera in hand. Fungus Fed videos can be seen on our YouTube channel. They can also be accessed from the homepage YouTube button. Future enhancements will include a video archive of presentations...
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12/14/2014, 4-8 pm |
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Scotts Valley Community Center, 360 Scotts Valley Drive, Scotts Valley, CA 95006 |
Be there — Sunday, December 14 at 4 pm!
Our Potluck replaces December's General Meeting. Come spend a delicious evening in the company of the great cooks of the FFSC for our annual Holiday Potluck! Bring your dish of choice, made to serve at least 10. The dish should adhere to the Suggested Species List and be labeled with a dish card, both found here: Potluck Essentials. Please bring your dish hot (as appropriate) and ready to serve, as this facility has only a small kitchen and last-minute cooking is not possible. Chef Bob Wynn will be coordinating service and keeping dishes warm as needed.
Not an experienced forager yet? Purchased mushrooms or desserts are encouraged.
This was one of only a few of this type of Morel that I found on this foray. I was in Lassen National Forest. It was a time when the State had no money to open all of the Campgrounds. It was actually very late in the season for Morels, but there's always something to find. Morels in the Sierras like disturbed areas as well as burns.
I went on a weekday. No one had begun to clean up the campgrounds where I was and so it was a successful hunt...
Polenta to Die For – a..k.a. “Double Your Lipitor” Polenta Dennis Nolan
Dennis Nolan brought this to the Wine & Mushroom Fest and it was outstanding! The original recipe comes from At Home with Michael Chiarello, by Michael Chiarello...
The North American Mycological Association (NAMA) has generously shared an incredible resource with us...
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24-27, October 2013 |
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Shepherd of the Ozarks Conference Center, 1343 SHEPHERD LANE, COUNTY ROAD 139 HARRIET, AR, 72639 |
The 2013 NAMA foray will be held October 24–27 in Arkansas in the Ozark Mountain Range, hosted by the Arkansas Mycological Society.
There's an old folk saying about the Ozark Mountains: "It's not that the mountains are so high, it's just that the valleys are so deep." This is true because the Ozark Mountains are a heavily eroded plateau, pushed up eons ago and carved out by hundreds of streams over thousands of years...
A membership in the Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz is $25 per household for both new members and for renewing members. A household is two adults and minor children. At this time, a household shares one email address and one user name. Each membership payment adds one calendar year to the membership expiration date from the date processed.
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