The 3rd annual Wild Rivers Mushroom Festival is tailor-made for mushroom lovers! Promising to be better than ever, this fungi-filled festival - once again the first weekend in November (Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 2-3, 2019, 10am to 4pm both days) and once again at the Chetco Activity Center (550 Chetco Lane, Brookings, Oregon) - offers lots of different ways to celebrate the fascinating world of wild fungi.
Center stage is the breathtaking wild mushrooms display, showcasing over 200 local varieties – all of which will be collected from within about 50 miles of Brookings - with folks on hand to talk about and identify the different specimens. Attendees in past years have all pretty much said “WOW!” when asked to describe the fabulous job the organizers do in showing off all the different kinds of fungi the Oregon Coast nurtures!
Found a mushroom you can't ID? Bring it to the festival, and we'll do our best to tell you what it is! Want to learn how to garden with mycelium? Or how to grow your own (mushrooms, that is)? Or when to hunt our state mushroom, the Pacific Golden Chanterelle? Want to learn about the latest mycological discoveries? Learn all that and more...at the Wild Rivers Mushroom Festival!
Over the course of the two-day festival, you can: learn about mushrooms; talk about mushrooms; taste mushrooms; shop for mushrooms; wear mushrooms; even DRINK mushrooms! Both days are packed with all sorts of ways to get your fill of mushrooms...
So why November? Well, the first weekend in November is usually the peak of the wild mushroom season along the southern Oregon coast, and it's pretty easy to fill both days with tons of mushroom-related activities, including: vendors selling fungi-related products (including fresh edible mushrooms); workshops both days, including presentations on identifying, growing, harvesting, dying with, and cooking with both wild and cultivated mushrooms; educational mushroom hikes along various coastal trails (SIX of them this year!); and expert presentations, including a talk by author Noah Siegel, who wrote the book, “Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast”, and plans to share some of his knowledge of our area's wild mushrooms PLUS be on hand to sign copies of his book.
The festival itself is free; the workshops and identification hikes will cost anywhere from $5.00 to $30.00, depending on the activity. Tickets for the workshops and presentations are available in advance and – provided advance ticket sales don't sell ou
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