MSSF 53rd Annual Fungus Fair A Celebration of Wild Mushrooms

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.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, when the first rains tease up the chanterelles and porcini, fungus lovers head to the Fungus Fair.

• Creative and hands-on mushroom activities for people of all ages.
• Lectures (2025): David Arora, Tomas Garrett, Reggie Harris, Christopher Hobbs, Chad Hyatt, Mai Lovaas, Kathi Meier, Daniel Winkler
• Workshops (2025): JR Blair, Eleana Hsu, Jack Laws, Alan Rockefeller. Workshops require 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 lichens, 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
• 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.

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Tickets may be purchased at the door with cash, or Digital Wallet. If you don't like waiting in line, an EventBrite ticket gets you through the admission gate the fastest. Workshops may sell out before fair day; purchasing tickets in advance is advised.