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2024 Fungi Fest, Saturday, October 12
October 12 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Celebrate the fantastic world of fungi with Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory and the Central Oregon Mushroom Club on
Saturday, October 12, 2024
from 10am to 3pm
The first annual FungiFest & Mushroom Show took place in 2017 at the end of Central Oregon’s fall mushroom season, under a foot of snow. Each year since then, the event has grown in scale and has been moved up to early October to coincide with the peak of our area’s mushroom season. The event is presented in partnership with Central Oregon Mushroom Club (COMC) whose members provide the expertise for collecting and identifying hundreds of mushroom specimens and share their passion for mushroom diversity throughout the event.
The 2024 event is scheduled for Saturday, October 12 and will take place in person at Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory. A keynote lecture from a guest mushroom expert, mushroom foraging field trips, a mushroom dinner and other programs are held in the days leading up to the main event. Although the Fest is free to current members of COMC, everyone must register online. Go to the Sunriver Nature Center and Observatory website at https://fungifest.snco.org
EVENTS LEADING UP TO FUNGI FEST
Thursday, 10/10 at 5:30pm, our headline speaker, Jeremy Collison of Salish Mushrooms, presents “The Forest’s Hidden Tapestry.”
This talk will equip you with practical knowledge to interpret the forest’s mysterious messages, identify forest types, and offer new perspectives on the various organisms associated with mushroom foraging. The headline speaker will be presenting from Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory’s Pozzi Education building located at 57245 River Road.
After the lecture on Thursday, join Jeremy and the Central Oregon Mushroom Club at the Owl’s Nest for a fungi-themed happy hour from 4 pm to 6 pm. There will be a mushroom-themed drink and appetizers!
Friday, 10/11, from 9 am to 2 pm: Join our fungi experts on a field trip into the local forests.
With expert foragers as your guides, you will learn how to identify mushrooms and where to look for them. Help collect the diversity of species that will be featured and on display for the mushroom show portion of Saturday’s festival. We will meet at Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory and carpool from there. Please bring your own food for the day.
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(Registration is limited)
Friday, 10/11, from 5 pm to 7 pm: After foraging for mushrooms, you can satiate yourself at our Mushroom Dinner.
A five-course meal prepared by five-star chef Josh Hendrix at the Sunriver Resort, this gourmet culinary experience will be one you won’t soon forget. Dinner reservations will be taken by the resort at www.sunriverresort.com