The Mycological Society of San Francisco Fungus Fair includes the latest collection of expertly identified fungi collected in various locations in the Bay Area.
These annual collections constitute a 50-year record of the early winter fungal diversity in our area. This historical information may become an important contribution to science as climate change affects our local ecosystems.
If you are interested in being a part of this year's fair, please reach out to our amazing Volunteer Coordinator Elizabeth Simonson at
fungusfairVC@mssf.org for information on how you can help make this year's fair magical!
We will also be sending an email in early October to the membership with a link to sign-up to volunteer
...or feel free to reach out~
Date: Sunday, December 8, 2024
- Time: 10:00am to 5:00pm
- Location: El Camino High School 1320 Mission Rd, South San Francisco, CA 94080
- Creative and hands-on mushroom activities for people of all ages.
- Lectures (2024): David Arora, Eugenia Bone, Noah Siegel, Gordon Walker, Damon Tighe, Shannon Adams, George Caughey, Thea Chesney
- Workshops (2024): Alan Rockefeller, Noah Siegel, JR Blair, Jack Laws, Eleana Hsu, Wilder Herbertson [Workshops requires a separate add-on ticket , in addition to your general admission ticket.]
- Naturalistic displays of more than 300 species of locally collected fungi
- Identification table - bring your specimens to find out the species!
- Educational tables on varied subjects such as medicinal mushrooms, myco-remediation, cultivation, ecology, psychedelic fungi, dyes from fungi, toxicology, edible mushrooms, and more...
- Microscopes and spore prints
- Vendors with fun mushroom products
- Mingle and meet other mushroom loving people
- Come and try a bowl of delicious mushroom soup
- Book signing by the authors
Hands-on activities include crafts and do-it-yourself mushroom growing kits.
We have many educational tables on varied subjects such as:
- Identification table - bring your specimens to find out what you have found!
- medicinal mushrooms
- myco-remediation
- cultivation
- ecology
- lichens
- psychoactive fungi
- toxicology
- microscopes and spore prints
There will be a naturalistic woodland exhibit and mushroom display tables with more than 300 identified species of locally collected fungi.
The Fair provides information on the uses and abuses of fungi, with displays and exhibits on ecology, toxicology, and cultivation. The mushroom display tables will have an array of several hundred identified specimens of locally collected mushrooms from the forays that took place on the two days preceding the fair.
