Mark your calendars for our upcoming 2025 Fungus Fair!

The San Diego Mycological Society is happy to announce our Fungus Fair on Sunday, February 16, 2025.

Hope you all have a warm and happy holiday season, and we look forward to seeing you in the New Year!

 

We’re happy to announce the expanded dates, which include workshops and forays on Friday, 2/14 and Saturday, 2/15!

Please join us on Sunday, 2/16 for our annual communal gathering filled with learning, sharing, & loving everything mushroom related!

Featuring food, art, speakers, crafts, live specimens, identification & more!

10am-4pm
Casa Del Prado at Balboa Park

Stayed tuned for updates on vendors, speakers & schedule.

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Dec Holiday Potluck & White Elephant

Holiday Celebration Potluck & White Elephant Gift Exchange
December 2, 2024
Casa del Prado Room 101
6:30 – 8:30pm
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

We invite you to bring a delicious dish to share! It does not have to include mushrooms, but those are always a hit! You may also bring store bought if you prefer.

We will have a card to fill out in advance for the ingredients list. This is useful for those that may have allergies or dietary restrictions.
***If you are using wild/foraged mushrooms, please note that also!***

We ask that you bring your own reusable cup/bowl/plate and utensils, since we are environmental stewards. Let’s help promote and save the environment by using less plastic!

Please note that we do not have kitchen access, but there will be outlets for keeping food warm with crock pots.

For those that want to participate in the White Elephant Gift Exchange, please bring a present for the exchange (this is an optional activity). Mushroom themed items are always coveted and unique packaging can make the exchange even more fun.

Gift items are suggested at $25.

Looking sporeward to it!!!

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SDMYCO Visual Arts Contest 2025

It’s that time of year again!

Come participate in our Visual Arts Contest — rules are linked here: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1PNjujb8JISG8N1A4pTyK7HFjcX3ba0gel02vbnSa6Ro

Excited to see what you come up with,

🫶 your mush-family

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This coming Monday – Annual Board of Directors Election + Summer recap

Hello Myco fam!

Please Join us at our upcoming Monthly Meeting on Monday, November 4th at 7:00pm.
We are holding our Annual Board of Directors Election and you can greatly help SDMYCO by participating with your presence, with your vote and with your willingness to participate in all aspects of the society!

Also, we will be having a summer events recap with Cassandra Ablola and Steve Farrar.

Can’t wait to see you this first Monday of the month!

Mush love,

SDMYCO

 


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Today!! Intro to Fungi – Zoom – Thursday, Oct 3, 7pm-845pm

Hello Mycofam,

Join expert, local fun-guy and world explorer, Dennis Sharmahd, as he introduces you to the wide world of mushrooms, the fruiting body of mycelium.  He’ll amaze you about the variety of edible and tasty mushrooms you can forage in Southern California and easily grow at home.
Join us in-person at the Jurupa Mountain Discovery Center (about 90 minutes north of San Diego-, 7621 Granite Hill Dr., Jurupa Valley) OR  in the comfort of ? by Zoom, log in or call:

Call-in: (669) 900-6833, Zoom ID: 957 9128 9273, Passcode: 121 546

https://zoom.us/j/95791289273?pwd=QUlHZ1hzRkhSWTZNVXdLbzdpRjhTdz09

Free to attend and free parking.  Casual dress.
This is the monthly meeting of the Inland Empire California Rare Fruit Growers.  Expect a short business meeting at the beginning and Dennis should begin about 7:30pm.  Potluck, members and guests are encouraged to share if they have abundance from their garden. Feel free to bring mushrooms, plants or fruit to share, exchange or talk about.
May the spores be with you,
SDMYCO
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La Paloma Movie Screening: Music For Mushrooms

La Paloma Theater will host a special screening for East Forest’s new movie/documentary: Music For Mushrooms on Tuesday, October 8th at 7pm.

There will be a screening followed by a panel to answer questions, East Forest will be attending. This movie is about his music being used for having profound shifts while on mushrooms/ music for the psychedelic practitioner.

https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/la-paloma-theatre/music-for-mushroom

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Kick-Off Meeting & Meet Else Vellinga!

Join us for our 2024-2025 season kick off meeting!

Monday, October 7, 2024
6:45pm Identification
7:00pm Lecture

Balboa Park
Casa del Prado Room 104

Free, open to the public

Else Vellinga is a mycologist who is interested in naming and classifying mushroom species in California and beyond, especially Parasol mushrooms. She has described 22 species as new for California. She got her training at the National Herbarium of the Netherlands, and her PhD at the university of Leiden.

Her interests go beyond taxonomy, and she loves natural history stories of all kinds of organisms. The mysterious world of spores is slowly being opened, and she likes to share the new developments in research and discoveries. Else describes herself as a Dutch, cat-loving, knitting mycologist, who lives in Berkeley, CA.

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Join us @ Wonderland: A Secret Society of Adultologists Event

Friday, September 13
7:00PM -11:00 PM

From all things curious, wacky, mad, and wise, join SDMYCO
at the SDNHM’s Secret Society of Adultologists: Wonderland
for their very merry 150th un-birthday party.

$10 OFF DISCOUNT CODE SDMyco2024

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2025 Fungus Fair Poster Contest

LINK TO CONTEST DETAILS

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We are excited to announce our first-ever fungus fair poster contest! We are calling on all of our artistic members to create a beautiful poster for our annual fungus fair!

Rules

This contest is open to all of our members! If you want to submit but are not a member yet, please sign up at https://sdmyco.org/membership/

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