MSSF 54th Annual Fungus Fair - A Celebration of Wild Mushrooms
MSSF 54th Annual Fungus Fair - A Celebration of Wild Mushrooms Date: Sunday, December 6, 2026 Time: 10:00am to 5:00pm Location: El Camino High School, 1320 Mission Rd, South San Francisco, CA 94080 Get Your Tickets Now! Tickets may be purchased at the door with cash, or EventBrite ticket. Workshops may sell out before fair day; purchasing tickets in advance is advised. The MSSF 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. In the San Francisco Bay Area, when the first rains tease up the chanterelles and porcini, fungus lovers head to the Fungus Fair. The location is right across the street from South San Francisco BART station There is ample parking Things to do at the fair... Creative and hands-on mushroom activities for people of all ages - Make mushroom-themed cards, ornaments, collages, hats, clay and felted sculptures, sun-prints and more… Unleash your inner mushroom fanatic at the Craft Zone! 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 Lectures and Workshops 2026 Lectures Speakers: Thea Chesney - Mysteries, Oddities, and Rarities: Cat Adams - Death Will Surely Follow: The Poisonous Chemistry That Makes Mushrooms Fascinating Alan Rockefeller - The Mycology of Central and South America Daniel Winkler - "Fungal Fruits of the Forest" - Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of the California North Coast 2026 Workshops Jack Laws - Mushroom Drawing 101 JR Blair - Mushroom ID Alan Rockefeller - Microscopy Mel Gillman - Zine Workshop (free) Olga Tzogas - Simple Medicinal Mushroom Preparations Eleana Hsu - Fermenting Koji 2026 Free in Craftzone Clay with Liz Vermillion Mushroom Cyanotypes with Karen Rusiniak (Sunprints) Mushroom Mini Canvases Felted Mushroom Sculptures with David Gardella Dye workshop with Liz Vermillion Mushroom block printing with Gabriela Medvetska [Some Workshops require a separate add-on ticket, in addition to your general admission ticket.] Lectures and Workshops - the 2026 line-up below! 2026 Lectures 10:30am - 12:00pm - Speaker: Thea Chesney - Topic: Mysteries, Oddities, and Rarities: Highlights from FUNDIS Challenges and Projects 12:15pm - 1:45pm - Speaker: Cat Adams - Topic: Death Will Surely Follow: The Poisonous Chemistry That Makes Mushrooms Fascinating 2:00pm - 3:30pm - Speaker: Alan Rockefeller - Topic: The Mycology of Central and South America 3:45pm - 5:00pm - Speaker: Daniel Winkler - Topic: "Fungal Fruits of the Forest" - Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of the California North Coast 2026 Workshops 10:30am - noon - Jack Laws - Mushroom Drawing 101 12:30pm - 2:00pm - JR Blair - Mushroom ID 11:00am - 1:00pm - Alan Rockefeller - Microscopy Workshop 1:30pm - 3:00pm - Mel Gillman - Zine Workshop (free) 1:30pm - 4:30pm - Olga Tzogas - Simple Medicinal Mushroom Preparations 2:30pm - 4:30pm - Eleana Hsu - Fermenting Koji 2026 Free in Craftzone 11:00am - 1:00pm - Clay with Liz Vermillion 12:00pm - 1:00 PM - Mushroom Cyanotypes with Karen Rusiniak (Sunprints) 1:00pm - 3:00pm - Mushroom Mini Canvases on Easels with Holly Bazeley 2:00pm - 4:00pm - Felted Mushroom Sculptures with David Gardella 2:00pm - 3:30pm - Dye workshop with Liz Vermillion 12:00pm - 2:00pm Mushroom block printing with Gabriela Medvetska https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mycological-society-of-san-francisco-54th-fungus-fair-tickets-1995039207976 For more info go to https://www.mssf.org/fungus-fairs/index.html