Hello MycoPeeps!

*** Remember we will be meeting at room 104 today for the movies ***

Here’s our flyer for our SDMYCO 2024 Fungus Fair!

Tell all of your friends about it!

Links coming soon for volunteers and also…

We have an art contest this year!

SDMYCO ART CONTEST

Categories for the art contest include:
1. Traditional 2D art
2. Sculpture
3. Mixed Media
4. Digital Art
5. Fabric & Fiber Arts
6. Photography

Contest Rules & Guidelines
1. The entrant must be a member of SDMYCO. If not already a member, please sign up on our website before submitting.
2. Each participant may enter up to 6 pieces total in the contest, with no more than 2 entries for any one category.
3. Art must visually depict fungi somewhere in the piece and/or use fungi as an ingredient (including but not limited to dyes, paints, and paper made from mushrooms, dried mushrooms in mixed media, etc.).
4. By entering, the entrant agrees to allow SDMYCO to use submission images in our newsletter, social media, website, printed promotional materials, and anywhere else SDMYCO sees fit. (please include your account name if you would like to be tagged on social media).

Prizes
1. Six participants (one winner from each category) will receive a one-year membership to SDMYCO.
2. Honorable Mentions may be presented for entries found to be of particular interest but that do not place.
3. Winners will be announced via SDMYCO’s channels (e.g., Newsletter, social media, etc.).
4. The physical artwork for both Winners and Honorable Mentions will be displayed at SDMYCO’s Annual Fungus Fair to be held on February 18, 2024, in Balboa Park.

FOR MORE DETAILS PLEASE SEE HERE

See you soon!

Mush love,

SDMYCO

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Hello MycoFriends!

We hope you are having a wonderful holiday season and looking forward to seeing you in the New Year!

Monday, January 8: Monthly Meeting in Room 104
***please note the date and room for this meeting***
6:45pm Identification
7:00pm Movie Night – Planet Fungi & The Mushroom Manifesto

Let’s settle into the New Year with a double header Movie Night!

Feel free to bring your own snacks and beverages to watch during the show.

We’ll be meeting in Room 104, across the patio from our regular meeting space.

Planet Fungi: North East India

In the ultimate armchair travel adventure, the hero of fungi lovers across the globe, photographer Stephen Axford, is on the hunt for the answers we all want to know. A breathtaking and magical fungi safari to one of the most remote places on the planet – the eastern Himalayas.

The Mushroom Manifesto
Taylor Lockwood’s epic career tale covering decades of discovery, travel, photos, video, and time lapse of mushrooms.

Monday, February 5: Monthly Meeting
6:45pm Identification
7:00pm TBA

Saturday, February 17: Annual Foray
10:00am – 1:00pm

Sunday, February 18: Fungus Fair
10:00am – 4:00pm

Monday, March 4: Monthly Meeting
6:45pm Identification
7:00pm TBA

Monday, April 1: Monthly Meeting
6:45pm Identification
7:00pm TBA

Monday, May 6: Monthly Meeting
6:45pm Identification
7:00pm TBA

***Please keep rain in your thoughts so we can get out into the field and foray!

***Reminder that you can always bring in specimens for identification to our meetings! Let’s show and tell what you’ve found in your local neighborhoods!

See you soon!

SDMYCO

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Hello Festive MycoFolk!

Here’s what’s coming up.

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Hello MycoFriends!

Our Annual Board of Elections is coming up on Monday, November 6. If you’re able to share your time and talents with us, please fill out our Board Member Application so we can get to know you.

We’d like to give a huge shout out to our current Board of Directors who volunteer their time to make our events great! Thank you for all you do!!!

If you are interested in volunteering with us this season, please fill out our application so we can get to know you ahead of the election:

SDMYCO Board Member Application

We’ll have a summer recap by Cassandra Ablola and Steve Farrar after the elections.

To read the current Sporadic Press newsletter, become a member here.

SDMYCO UPCOMING 2023 – 2024 SEASON:

Monday, November 6: Monthly Meeting
6:45pm Identification
7:00pm Annual Board of Directors Elections
7:30pm NAMA & Psychedelic Science + Telluride Recap

Monday, December 4: Monthly Meeting
6:00pm – 8:30pm
Annual Potluck and White Elephant Gift Exchange

Monday, January 8: Monthly Meeting in Room 104
6:45pm Identification
7:00pm TBA

Monday, February 5: Monthly Meeting
6:45pm Identification
7:00pm TBA

Saturday, February 17: Annual Foray
10:00am – 1:00pm

Sunday, February 18: Fungus Fair
10:00am – 4:00pm

See you soon!

SDMYCO

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Hello Myco fam!

Our Annual Board of Elections is coming up on Monday, November 6.

If you’re able to share your time and talents with us, please fill out our Board Member Application so we can get to know you.

We’d like to give a huge shout out to our Board of Directors who volunteer their time to make our events great!

Thank you for all you do!!!

https://forms.gle/v8jUbGBFv1iGfSLH6

We’ll have a summer recap by Cassandra Ablola and Steve Farrar after the elections.

See you soon!

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Hello Myco friends!

We still have openings available for our MycoMixer coming up this Monday, October 16th!!

Here’s the menu with a bit of information on the MycoMixer coming up!

Tell your friends and hope to see you there !!

Mush love,

SDMYCO

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If you are able to share your time and talents with us, please fill out our Board Member Application so we can get to know you.

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Hello Mycophiles!

Here’s the mouthwatering menu with a bit of information on the MycoMixer coming up this October 16th! Hope to see you there

Mush love,

SDMYCO

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Hello Myco Fam!

Happy National Mushroom Month!

Mushroom season is here!!! We are so glad to have seen many of you during our summer events and we are excited to get back into the groove of our regular Monthly Meetings!
Kicking off is one of our own, Matthew Meyer, coming back to give us some info on what he’s been up to during his PhD!  He will be speaking about plant pathology and how fungi chemicals interact with other organisms.

Also, Here’s the upcoming season schedule. Can’t wait!

SDMYCO UPCOMING 2023 – 2024 SEASON:

Monday, October 2: Monthly Meeting
6:30pm Identification
7:00pm Lecture with Matthew Meyer – Ohio State University PhD candidate

Monday, October 16: MycoMixer
Additional details below
6:30pm – 8:30pm
Hive Sushi Lounge

Monday, November 6: Monthly Meeting
6:30pm Identification
7:00pm Annual Board of Directors Elections & NAMA & Telluride Recap

Monday, December 4: Monthly Meeting
6:00pm – 8:30pm
Annual Potluck and White Elephant Gift Exchange

Mush Love,
SDMYCO

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Hello Myco friends,

Attention… Coming in hot!!

An Intermediate Mushroom Cultivation Class with Eric Mueller, this coming Friday, September 15th.

Gain more understanding of mushroom cultivation in this intermediate class and take away a shiitake kit to practice your new skills!!

This is a members only workshop and members will receive the registration link for the class.

Registration required
$60/person
5:30pm – 8:30pm

Also, please remember there will be no regular Monday monthly meeting this upcoming first Monday.

Enjoy the rest of summer until we reconvene and see you soon!

Mush love,

SDMYCO

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