The May meeting is our last meeting of the season and will be a potluck dinner. Mushroom Monday May 6th Dinner will start at 7:00 PM in Room 101, Casa Del Prado in Balboa Park. Set- up begins around 6:30. Please bring a cooked or cold dish and your own beverage. (Note: there is no kitchen access).
Please provide a description for your dish. And make sure that you bring your own plates and utensils or the dinner. As part of the conservation efforts to keep our planet green we want to reduce the amount of waste. Thank you for doing your work!

We are excited to have you join us for our Annual Mushroom Pot Luck May Dinner.
We will have t-shirts for sale as well as information on other fascinating fungi stuff coming up later in the year!

The guest speaker for our April 8th meeting will be Eric Mueller. The meeting will be hosted in Room 101, Casa del Prado in Balboa Park at 6:30 pm.

We will take Eric to dinner before the meeting around 5:00pm at the Blue Water Seafood Grill at 3667 India St.

Eric will be discussing basics of mushroom cultivation and different methods for growing mushrooms. He will also be discussing medicinal mushrooms and their health benefits. 

Please bring mushrooms you find so we can get them identified 6:30-7 pm and help promote our citizen science project “San Diego Mycoflora Project” at the same time. Print out data slips here and fill them in before leaving any specimens!

Eric Mueller is a mushroom educator, producer of mushroom grow kits and high-end medicinal mushroom fruit body tinctures. He is also an electrocutioner of various wood items. He has been selling his tinctures and grow kits at both the San Diego Mycological Society and Los Angeles Mycological Society, as well as a few local Farmer’s markets. He also gives lectures to high school students about mushrooms. Learn more and  follow him at @muellermushroom &  muellersmushroom.com

Sam Andrasko is the head grower and managing partner of Creekside mushroom Farms located in the Samataguma Valley in Guatay, CA. He has been growing mushrooms for the past 23 years and is a past President of The San Diego Mycological Society. Sam has invited us to the farm on Saturday March 30th from 10am to 3-4pm’ish to tour his farm and learn about cultivating mushrooms.

We will have the opportunity to make fruitable shiitake and oyster logs and learn hands on how to make our own King stropharia beds that will fruit in the late Spring and Fall here in Southern California. Sam will do his best to provide us instruction on how to manage the cultivation of mushrooms in our arid environment with tips and tricks he has learned through his years of cultivating mushrooms. The farm is located about 30 minutes east of San Diego so bring a dish to share for a lunch potluck.

Cost for the class:
$20 SDMYCO Members
$30 Non-Members

(CLICK HERE TO REGISTER)

Directions to the Ranch:

Address-

Rancho Samataguma Ranch
26930 Old Hwy 80
Guatay, CA 91931

From San Diego: Take I-8 east to to CA-79N/Japatul Valley Rd. exit 40 and turn left after exiting. 5 miles up the road will be Heavenly Oaks residential trailer park on the right. Our entrance to the ranch is on the left. The driveway is called Farley flat road. Enter through the gate and drive 1 mile up the drive to our location. We will direct you where to park once you arrive.

The guest speaker for our February 4th meeting will be Mary Ann Hawke. The meeting will be hosted in Room 101, Casa Del Prado in Balboa Park at 6:30 PM.
We will take Mary Ann to dinner before the meeting around 5:00 at the Blue Water Seafood Grill at 3667 India St.

Volunteers from the San Diego Mycological Society have been archiving mushrooms gathered during their forays at the San Diego Natural History Museum (the Nat) with the goal of cataloging the diversity of mushroom species of San Diego County. Documenting our local flora and fauna is crucial because our region is a global hotspot of biodiversity, yet habitats and species are threatened by wildfire, urbanization, invasive species, and climate change. Come learn how YOU can become a citizen scientist and use the iNaturalist app to participate! You’ll also hear about the DNA Barcoding initiative we’re undertaking, as part of the North American Mycoflora Project.

Please bring in mushrooms you find  so we can get them identified 630-7.

Mary Ann Hawke Ph.D. is a SDMS member, ecologist, and educator who has been spearheading this project in conjunction with the San Diego Barcode of Life and the San Diego Citizen Science Network. Mary Ann was the Director of the San Diego County Plant Atlas and trained 500 citizen scientists to document our local flora.

We need to collect fresh specimens for the fair! Join us on a Foray this Saturday Feb 16 with the San Diego Mycological Society.

***** Members Only *****
(if you are not yet a member you can join online here )

10am @
24251 Highway 76, Santa Ysabel.  Sign says Lighthouse Farm. If you get to the lake or San Luis Rey campground you have gone too far.

Bring your own basket and collecting tools.

Pot-luck style, no access to inside house (so no facilities!).

Please print out, complete and bring along a signed Liability Waiver

If you can’t go on the foray, or prefer to collect somewhere else and bring specimen for the day. (Anyone welcome, i.e., you don’t need to be a member to bring specimens to the fair). Here are some collecting tips.

Store with some of the substrate with which it was found. Can store in fridge inside paper bag, waxy paper bag, or even to go containers. Bring either Saturday night during set-up or Sunday (hopefully before fair begins) and we can use the specimen for our Identification table.
Collect specimen with ID, where it was found, substrate, smell, and other identification details.
Bag for Duff with each collection.