Mycosymbiotics Mushroom and Arts Festival: Full Schedule

11:00am PDT

Opening Ceremony

Opening Ceremony!!

Let's get together and discuss how this festival is going to go down! Join us as we discuss logistics for the festival, how it operates, and how you can get the most out of it!

Speakers

Cassandra Posey is the founder of Cognitive Function LLC, a company focused on applications of medicinal fungi and plants to further holistic living through comprehensive research and development. Cassandra holds a degree in Visual Arts and Communication, believing the best way to... Read More →

Olga Tzogas

Mycologist, Smugtown Mushrooms

Her journey with Fungi and plants started over ten years ago. Working with these allies by foraging in both urban & more wild settings, and developing skills to identify for food and medicine. In 2011, Smugtown Mushrooms was established because there was a need for mushrooms & growing... Read More →

Friday August 2, 2019 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Fishing Creek Community Center

Social

12:00pm PDT

First Foray

The first foray at Boyd's Big Tree Preserve dive into this 1,025-acre state park full of Oaks, Chestnuts, Paw Paws. Easy walking trails and little to no brush between the trees!

Speakers

Eric Joseph Lewis

Expert Vibes Technician

Since 2010, Eric has been studying plantsfull time and working with them. He is a plant lover whodedicates much of his energy to deepening the relationshipbetween people and plants. Eric is continually encouragingpeople to respect the plants as people and eat somethingwild every... Read More →

Jon Martin

Mycologist, Wild Identifier, Fungi Jon

Jon Martin is a Florida mycologist focused on mushroom identification, cultivation, cooking, and photography. Through relatable, practical, and witty ways of teaching, he inspires othersto explore the world of mycology and observe nature intentionally. From their significant rolein... Read More →

William Padilla-Brown

Director, Mycosymbiotics

Friday August 2, 2019 12:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Boyd Big Tree Preserve Conservation Area

Foray

3:00pm PDT

The Many Kinds of Mycorrhizae

A breezy and accessible introduction to the 8 kinds of known associations between fungi and the roots of plants. The fact that fungi associate with many plants at the roots is now common knowledge, but this class will grant a familiarity with the many different types of these mycorrhizal associations, from Vesicular Arbuscular Mycorrhizae (VAM) to the mysterious Dark Septate Fungal Endophytes.

Speakers

Brodie Pomper

Green House Manager, Kurt Bluemel Inc.

Brodie Pomper obtained a B.S. in Plant Science from Penn State in 2016, and has been working as a greenhouse manager at various wholesale nurseries since. In the course of being a plant husband, knowledge and application of mycorrhizal fungi has been a consistent theme. He plans to... Read More →

Friday August 2, 2019 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Fishing Creek Community Center

Mycology (Identification & Science)

4:00pm PDT

Mushroom Farming, Co-ops, and Sustainable Local Economies

Mushroom farming utilizes agricultural waste products to grow nutritious food and medicines for our communities. However starting a farm requires a significant amount of start-up capital, which is cost prohibitive to most people. Cooperative business model offers a way for those looking to start a farm a way to spread the costs and benefits among the stakeholders of the business. Co-ops help keep money cycling within a community and help spread the wealth throughout them instead concentrating in the hands of a few people. This class will cover cooperative business in the context of mushroom farming and a general introduction to cooperative businesses.

Speakers

Phillip Balke

Professional Arborist, Central Texas Mycological Society

Phillip Balke has been a resident of the North Central Texas Plains bioregion since 1989. Since early on he has enjoyed being outside and enjoying the abundance of nature. He moved to San Marcos, TX where he earned a degree in Psychology with a minor in Horticulture. He is currently... Read More →

Friday August 2, 2019 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Fishing Creek Community Center

Social Work

5:00pm PDT

Location Transition

The transition from Fishing Creek Community Center to the Weekend Venue of Camp Reily.
This is a great time to find a parking spot, and get your tents set up!

Speakers

William Padilla-Brown

Director, Mycosymbiotics

Friday August 2, 2019 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Main Venue

6:30pm PDT

Check In

Check in to get your Wrist Bands

Friday August 2, 2019 6:30pm - 7:00pm PDT
Main Venue

7:00pm PDT

Dinner / Mushroom Beer Mixer

Enjoy Dinner w/ produce provided by Lancaster Farm Fresh and The Woodlands at Phillips

Sponsors

Lancaster Farm Fresh

Lancaster Farm Fresh Cooperative(LFFC) is a non-profit organic farmer’s cooperative of over 100 family farmers headquartered in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. We focus on creating healthy high quality foods from our highly maintained and enriched soils on our small-scale family... Read More →

The Woodlands at Phillips

Friday August 2, 2019 7:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Main Venue

Meal

7:00pm PDT

Mushrooms of Florida

Join central Florida mycologist Jon Martin in a photo foray showcasing beautiful Florida
mushrooms! Along the way, you’ll learn species taxonomy & identification features,
professional photography techniques, and more. Get to know subtropical species and learn
how to capture amazing mushroom photos!

Speakers

Jon Martin

Mycologist, Wild Identifier, Fungi Jon

Friday August 2, 2019 7:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Lodge @ Main Venue

Mycology (Identification & Science)

7:00pm PDT

Making Medicines with Mushrooms

Learn the basics of making your own medicine with mushrooms! We will discuss some of the best and simplest ways to optimize the benefits of common medicinal mushrooms growing in your local forest or at your friendly neighborhood mushroom farm. We will walk through step by step processes of how to make several of these medicinal preparations as well as sample some of them along the way. Each participant will go home with a handout and the confidence to begin a home Mushroom apothecary!

Speakers

Nina O'Malley

Medicine Maker, Mush Luv

Nina O’Malley, is a medicine maker and mushroom grower dedicated to helping the earth and people heal. Nina spends her time building relationships with plants and Fungi. A co-founder of Mush Luv, she offers fresh, local gourmet mushrooms, local medicinal products and educational... Read More →

Friday August 2, 2019 7:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Outdoor Classroom @ Main Venue

Wellness

8:00pm PDT

5 years of MycoFest

Join in on this presentation/panel with William Padilla-Brown, Olga Tzogas, and Cassandra Posey recapping the past 5 years of Myco Fest. The ups and downs, our progress, our findings, and our plan for the Future!

Speakers

William Padilla-Brown

Director, Mycosymbiotics

Olga Tzogas

Mycologist, Smugtown Mushrooms

Cassandra Posey

Founder, CEO, Cognitive Function

Friday August 2, 2019 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Main Venue

Headline

9:30pm PDT

Live Music w/ The Sweet Life

The Sweet Life is like a big, funky bowl of soup. They blend genres - mixing together different ingredients like funk-jam with a little jazzy salt and pepper, and a hint of spicy psychedelic, topped with a little dance party garnish (because it's all about presentation) to serve to you, the perfect combination for the best ear pleasing, rump shaking, head banging, foot stomping bowl of soup that you've ever had.

Friday August 2, 2019 9:30pm - 10:30pm PDT
Lodge @ Main Venue

Music

10:30pm PDT

Live Music w/ Humandala

Humandala fluidly blends electronic and organic rhythms, melodies and harmony to facilitate a journey through the many facets of the human experience.

Artists

Humandala

Friday August 2, 2019 10:30pm - 11:30pm PDT
Lodge @ Main Venue

Music

11:30pm PDT

Super Nicer & Brock Genesis from Exmag DJ set

Super Nicer & Brock Genesis of Exmag will be performing a DJ set!

Artists

Exmag

Friday August 2, 2019 11:30pm - Saturday August 3, 2019 12:30am PDT
Lodge @ Main Venue

Music

11:30pm PDT

Mushroom Beer Mixer / Camp Fires

Speakers

William Padilla-Brown

Director, Mycosymbiotics

Friday August 2, 2019 11:30pm - Saturday August 3, 2019 1:30am PDT
Main Venue

Social

7:00am PDT

Morning Yoga

Bring your mat and gear for a morning yoga sesh with Eric Joseph Lewis

Saturday August 3, 2019 7:00am - 8:00am PDT
Lodge @ Main Venue

Wellness

8:00am PDT

Breakfast

Enjoy a breakfast featuring produce from Lancaster Farm Fresh & Mushrooms from the Woodlands at Phillips

Sponsors

Lancaster Farm Fresh

The Woodlands at Phillips

Saturday August 3, 2019 8:00am - 9:30am PDT
Lodge @ Main Venue

Meal

10:00am PDT

Fungi in Environmental Restoration and Remediation

From breaking down toxic contaminants to enhancing plant immune systems to making soil richer and more accommodating for life, fungi play many crucial roles in helping the landscape. How can we as citizens take this knowledge and put it into practice to help the ecosystems near and dear to us? Learn about the scientific concepts at play in “Mycoremediation”, how and why fungi heal our environment, and how to practically incorporate fungi into land management. Considerations will be made towards partnering with institutions, understanding the scientific validity of projects and having realistic expectations for implementing a promising but unproven science. There’s so much more to fungi than mushrooms, so come get hyphae!

Speakers

Leif Olson

Environmental Scientist

Leif Olson is an interdisciplinary environmental scientist and practitioner who works to connect the understanding and implementation and ecological function, environmental health, and human need. He received his bachelor's degree in ecology from the University of California at Santa... Read More →

Saturday August 3, 2019 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Lodge @ Main Venue

Mycology (Identification & Science)

10:00am PDT

Foray @ Boyd Big Tree

Foray through Boyd Big Tree

Saturday August 3, 2019 10:00am - 12:30pm PDT
Boyd Big Tree Preserve Conservation Area

Foray

11:00am PDT

Fungi and Food Security

This workshop will cover the basic principles of sustainable food security and environmental systems thinking. We will talk about how mushroom farming is a sustainable way to provide food, medicine and remediation to communities while operating in a sustainable manner. By applying systems thinking and basic environmental analysis, we can help solve food scarcity internationally with mushrooms

Speakers

Tess Burzynski

Founder, Educator, Fungi Freights

Tess Burzynski is the founder, head educator and cultivator at Fungi Freights Urban Lab and Environmental Studio. A Science degree graduate from Wayne State University, she works as an Environmental Scientist and continues doing research with Mycoremediation in the city of Detroit... Read More →

Saturday August 3, 2019 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Lodge @ Main Venue

Social Work

11:00am PDT

Myco-Emotional Remediation : Cultivating the Toxic Narrative

Fungi entice those who are interested in mind-expanding concepts or remediation.
Remediation implies the cleansing of an environment. Potentially the most toxic, and
influential of all are the unaddressed emotional environments we operate within. If we
examine the Narrative within Mycological communities what do we see? Have we disguised
toxicity as a decoration that underlies our passive participation in a corrupt system? Who came
before us to do this work and why have they gone unmentioned? Let’s explore the culture
and history of fungi to complete a tool-set that we can use to sequester these vectors for
contamination.

Speakers

Ava Arvest

Mycologist, Myco Uprrhizal

Ava Arvest is a cultivator, musician, artist, and business owner. She has been cultivatingfungi since 2011. Her focus is in medicine for the community and individuals. Curious about themicro and macro relationships between fungi and their commonalities between humans. Sheis intent... Read More →

Saturday August 3, 2019 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Outdoor Classroom @ Main Venue

Social Work

12:30pm PDT

Lunch

Lunch Featuring Produce from Lancaster Farm Fresh & Mushrooms from The Woodlands @ Phillips

Sponsors

Lancaster Farm Fresh

The Woodlands at Phillips

Saturday August 3, 2019 12:30pm - 1:30pm PDT
Lodge @ Main Venue

Meal

2:00pm PDT

MycoPaper: Making handmade paper with mushrooms

Using foraged polypore fungi participants will learn DIY paper making techniques. Participants will walk away with a myco paper zine that clearly illustrates the process in addition to learning how to find, and ethically forage, for paper-friendly mushrooms.

Speakers

Nica Rabinowitz

Artist, Fiber House Collective

Nica is an artist and educator working at the intersection of biological design, social justice, farming and textile creation – exploring handcraft from farm to fabric and from soil to soil. She is the Founder and Creative Director of Fiberhouse Collective. Her practice is rooted... Read More →

Saturday August 3, 2019 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Lodge @ Main Venue

Art

2:00pm PDT

Foray @ Detweiler Park w/ special Cordyceps Foray

Group Carpool to Detweiler Park 400 acres with 7 miles of trails!

Speakers

William Padilla-Brown

Director, Mycosymbiotics

Ryan Paul Gates

Mycologist, Terrestrial Fungi

Ryan Paul Gates has spent the past 10 years collecting and breeding fungal cultures from around the world.

Jeff Manganaro

Wild Cordyceps Master

Born and Raised Jeff has been activley hunting Cordyceps for the past 3 years and Foraging Mushrooms for 20 years

Saturday August 3, 2019 2:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
Detweiler Park

Foray

3:00pm PDT

Mushroom, Lichen, and Natural Dyes

The world is full of color, and as humans, we are constantly trying to capture that color. In this class, I want to take us back to the way that dyeing used to be done, with a little help from some modern kitchen staples. We will talk about the process of small scale dyeing, what type of equipment is needed, and how to have success using the things you find during your walks in the woods. It’s an experimental approach to the ever-changing and endless possibilities of natural color.

Speakers

Samantha Feld

Owner-Operator, The Mushroomworks

Samantha Feld is a naturalist, a teacher, an artist, a forager, a mushroom and plant nerd, and a constant student of all of the wonders of the forest. She is the owner-operator of a small mushroom growing and foraging business in Baltimore, Maryland called The Mushroomworks. This... Read More →

Saturday August 3, 2019 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Outdoor Classroom @ Main Venue

Art

3:00pm PDT

Demystifying Truffles

This talk will cover the main ecological, economic, and culinary aspects of both wild and cultivated truffles. Learn about ethical and sustainable harvesting methods, pitfalls to avoid, market considerations, and how to get the most bang for your buck when splurging for these wondrous delicacies.

Speakers

Sunny Diaz

Truffle Hunter, Cascadia Truffles

Sunny has a background in public health research and health care administration but found her true calling in working intimately with nature while supporting local food and justice oriented communities. She, with her Lagotto Romagnolo Stella, hunts truffles professionally from November... Read More →

Saturday August 3, 2019 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Lodge @ Main Venue

Mycology (Identification & Science)

4:00pm PDT

MycoCulture - Permaculture + Mycology

Can Mycology Inform A Lifestyle?
What can we learn from Permaculture aka People Care + Earth Care + Future Care?
Come Inoculate the Permaculture Lens with Mycology with author, educator, & enthusiast Matt Powers!! Learn mycological lifestyle choices that serve the environment, save you money, and keep you and yours healthier!

Speakers

Matt Powers

Author, Educator, Entrepreneur, & Family Guy, PowersPermaculture123 LLC

Matt Powers is an author, educator, and entrepreneur focused on radically transforming the K-12 experience for children everywhere by aligning their education with current regenerative science, natural principles, and clear ethics: earth care, people care, and future care. Through... Read More →

Saturday August 3, 2019 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Lodge @ Main Venue

Social Work

6:00pm PDT

*PANEL* The Future of Medicinal Mushrooms

Join in this Juicy Panel featuring some of the Nations Leaders in Medicinal Mushroom Production and Distribution! See where we are going as a country in the field of Medicinal Mushrooms!

Speakers

Tradd Cotter

Mycologist, Mushroom Mountain

Tradd Cotter is a microbiologist, professional mycologist, and retired landscape designer, who has been cultivating mushrooms both commercially and experimentally for more than thirty years.Tradd is the author of the best-selling book Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation (2014... Read More →

William Padilla-Brown

Director, Mycosymbiotics

Olga Tzogas

Mycologist, Smugtown Mushrooms

Ryan Paul Gates

Mycologist, Terrestrial Fungi

Ryan Paul Gates has spent the past 10 years collecting and breeding fungal cultures from around the world.

Saturday August 3, 2019 6:00pm - 7:00pm PDT
Lodge @ Main Venue

Headline

6:00pm PDT

Dinner / Mushroom Beer Mixer

Dinner Featuring Produce from Lancaster Farm Fresh & The Woolands at Phillips

Sponsors

Lancaster Farm Fresh

The Woodlands at Phillips

Saturday August 3, 2019 6:00pm - 7:00pm PDT
Lodge @ Main Venue

Meal

7:00pm PDT

BeeMushroomed: How fungi can help give bees a chance

Paul Stamets and Fungi Perfecti, makers of Host Defense, have teamed up with Washington State University to study the effects of fungal extracts on bees. Together our efforts have raised over 5 million towards this important cause! We will discuss our past research, future plans and what, as individuals, we can do to give bees a chance.

Speakers

Loni Jean Ronnebaum

Fungi Perfecti Retail Office Manager, 9 years, Fungi Perfecti

Loni Jean Ronnebaum aka Ronnebaumanita Loniscaria has long been passionate about fungi. She graduated from the Evergreen State College in 2009 with a BS in Mycology and Natural Sciences. She has since been working in the offices for Fungi Perfecti, presenting at many events around... Read More →

Saturday August 3, 2019 7:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Lodge @ Main Venue

Headline

7:00pm PDT

The Mushrooms, Fungi + Culture of Greece

Join Olga Tzogas from Smugtown Mushrooms as she showcases the fantastic world of the mushrooms, fungi and flora of Greece. Olga has been going to Greece their whole life. It wasnt until recently that she realized that the part of that country where their roots are from have mountains and forests of Oak, Beech, Chestnut, Black Pine and Fir. Where spring water comes out of the faucet and the air is clean. In fact, there's a vibrant and incredible mushroom culture there. Over the past 5 years Olga has been returning to her ancestral homeland seasonally to explore not just the ancient ruins of Greece but also the ancient mycelial networks present there. The typical image of Greece is usually coastlines and sparkling beaches of clear Mediterranean Sea water. Of course, those vistas are worth the rave, but Greece is more than the beach and islands, its the mountains, the water, the hot springs, the forests, the plants, its the slow paced villages & the busy late night streets of Thessaloniki. Not often is this diverse country noted for its wide ranging cuisine, ecosystems and its flora and fauna. Take a look into the relationships the locals have with certain species of mushrooms & plants, & the recipes for use. Together we will experience the different bio-regions visited and the life that grows there during the fall months. See the similarities of fungal life that lives there and here in the Eastern States. Enjoy a visual journey through the mountains, coastlines and villages of Greece.

Speakers

Olga Tzogas

Mycologist, Smugtown Mushrooms

Saturday August 3, 2019 7:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Outdoor Classroom @ Main Venue

Mycology (Identification & Science)

8:00pm PDT

*Keynote* The Future of Medicinal and Agricultural Fungi

For millions of years fungi have torn apart and restructured the Earth to stabilize ecosystems. Understanding how mushrooms, molds, mycorrhizae and endophytes function in their roles can create novel solutions for agriculture and medicine. These two key paradigm shifting scaffolds that modern civilization relies on, is currently in a downward spiral. Let us reimagine the possibilities, and they will materialize if we assemble and support the needs of our planet first, the rewards will be truly magical.

Speakers

Tradd Cotter

Mycologist, Mushroom Mountain

Saturday August 3, 2019 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Lodge @ Main Venue

Headline

9:15pm PDT

Ecstatic Dance w/ Joy Rise

JOYRISE Dance | ecstatic dance-inspired freeform, intentional movement

Artists

JOYRISE

https://www.facebook.com/joyrisedance/https://www.instagram.com/joyrisedance/

Saturday August 3, 2019 9:15pm - 10:30pm PDT
Lodge @ Main Venue

Music

10:30pm PDT

Live Music w/ DJ Aspin

Artists

DJ Aspin

Saturday August 3, 2019 10:30pm - 11:30pm PDT
Main Venue

Music

11:30pm PDT

Live Music w/ It's Cosmic

Artists

It's Cosmic

Saturday August 3, 2019 11:30pm - Sunday August 4, 2019 12:15am PDT
Lodge @ Main Venue

Music

12:15am PDT

Live Music w/ Shawan & The Wonton

Soul Songstress, Shawan Rice, invites the crowd into her world with her poetic lyrics and haunting melodies. Drawing inspiration from her Life experiences ranging from; Love, Loss, Grief and acceptance, concertgoers easily connect to her sound and story. The vulnerable and transparent nature of her approach to music leaves the listener with an experience like no other.

Artists

Shawan Rice

Sunday August 4, 2019 12:15am - 1:00am PDT
Lodge @ Main Venue

Music

7:00am PDT

Morning Yoga

Bring your mat and gear for a morning yoga sesh with Eric Joseph Lewis

Sunday August 4, 2019 7:00am - 8:00am PDT
Lodge @ Main Venue

Wellness

8:00am PDT

Breakfast

Enjoy a breakfast featuring produce from Lancaster Farm Fresh & Mushrooms from the Woodlands at Phillips

Sponsors

Lancaster Farm Fresh

The Woodlands at Phillips

Sunday August 4, 2019 8:00am - 9:30am PDT
Lodge @ Main Venue

Meal

8:30am PDT

Tea Ceremony

Sunday August 4, 2019 8:30am - 9:00am PDT
Chanterelle Chapel

Wellness

9:00am PDT

Morning Circle

Let's go over the day!

Speakers

Cassandra Posey

Founder, CEO, Cognitive Function

William Padilla-Brown

Director, Mycosymbiotics

Sunday August 4, 2019 9:00am - 9:30am PDT
Main Venue

Social

9:30am PDT

Bookbinding

A bookbinding workshop where we will use the paper made from mushrooms to make small notebooks

Speakers

Isis Rivas

Isis is an Atlanta raised book artist and educator who began as a dedicated diarist. Isis began making books in 2015 then teaching workshops because not only is it important for people to learn new skills but to know the power of intentional writing.

Sunday August 4, 2019 9:30am - 12:30pm PDT
Russula Recreation

Art

10:00am PDT

Growing Reishi as Art

The fungal kingdom is blessed with some of the most visually stunning organisms on planet Earth! Among the most beautiful of fungi are the members of the genus Ganoderma. Unarguably one of the most visually appealing mushrooms that we can cultivate as medicine. The vast diversity in the genus, as well as Ganoderma’s sensitivity to various environmental parameters, make it an excellent candidate as a medium for living art. In this workshop, I will discuss various techniques for growing Ganoderma as art and medicine. I will share various tips on how to avoid spawn consolidation, manipulate forms, grafting, prolonging the growth of your Reishi bonsai for as long as possible, and discuss growth attributes of the various Ganoderma strains available from the Terrestrial Fungi strain library.

Speakers

Ryan Paul Gates

Mycologist, Terrestrial Fungi

Ryan Paul Gates has spent the past 10 years collecting and breeding fungal cultures from around the world.

Sunday August 4, 2019 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Lodge @ Main Venue

Cultivation

10:00am PDT

Stropharia Workshop: Gardening with the Giant

Learn about Stropharia rugoso-annulata and take home a small patch for expansion.

Speakers

Loni Jean Ronnebaum

Fungi Perfecti Retail Office Manager, 9 years, Fungi Perfecti

Sunday August 4, 2019 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Outdoor Classroom @ Main Venue

Cultivation

11:00am PDT

Gardening with Mushrooms

Learn some low tek outdoor methods for growing mushrooms that anyone can use! We'll focus on planting in containers and on the soil in a garden setting.

Speakers

Charlie Aller

Mycologist, Mush Luv

Charlie Aller, aka Charliceps, is a nature lover, myco-freak and co-founder of Mush Luv. 6 years ago, after hitting rock bottom, his myco-phobic cultural conditioning was weakened just enough for a wandering spore to germinate. Once the fungus took root the decomposition could commence... Read More →

Sunday August 4, 2019 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Outdoor Classroom @ Main Venue

Cultivation