WALT STURGEON aka MYCO HOMBRE

Walt is one of the best fungi identifiers there is!

Walter E. Sturgeon is one of the region's foremost mushroom hunters and wrote a long-overdue field guide to finding and identifying the mushrooms and fleshy fungi found in the Appalachian mountains from Canada to Georgia.

This guide by Walt Sturgeon is destined to be an indispensable authority on the subject for everyone from beginning hobbyists to trained experts, throughout Appalachia and beyond. Walt aka MYCO HOMBRE celebrates more than 400 species in all their diversity, beauty and scientific interest.

Prof. BILL YULE aka BOLETE BILL

Bill is a field biologist and teacher at the Connecticut River Museum, in Essex, Connecticut and a member, officer and Education Chair of the Connecticut Valley Mycological Society since 1988.

He has been a principal identifier, lecturer and presenter in major forays in the last 20 years. His specialties are Boletaeceae and insect/fungus relationships.

Bugs, Slugs & Mushroom Thugs

Bill will discuss best foraging and collecting practices to avoid getting ill from wild mushroom consumption and educate us about all the little critters that like to feast on mushrooms.

Mushrooms Poisons and Poisonous Mushrooms

This program will examine the main groups of mushroom toxins and how the symptoms of poisoning present themselves, treatment protocols and then a survey of the poisonous and toxic mushrooms in our area and their most common look-alikes.

Prof. JAY JUSTICE aka INDIANA JONES

Jay Justice is a retired epidemiologist who has studied the macrofungi that can be found in the Southern and Southeastern regions of the US for over 35 years. He is a co-founder, scientific advisor and one of two chief mycologists for the Arkansas Mycological Society (1982).

Furthermore, he is a scientific advisor to the Cumberland Mycological Society, as well as chief mycologist for the Missouri Mycological Society.

https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/arkansas-mycological-society-3814/

Amanitas arguably are the most recognized and fascinating of all mushrooms. In addition to the genus Amanita, two other groups of the macro fungi that intrigue him are the Chanterelles and the members of the fleshy poroid fungi known as Boletes.

https://youtu.be/cOWIBfiT-3g

ALAN ROCKEFELLER Oakland, CA

Alan is a mycologist stationed in Oakland, CA, where he works out of Counter Culture Labs in support of the Citizen Science Project.

He is a prime expert of the study of psilocybin mushrooms worldwide.

His focus is on plant and mushroom identification (especially hallucigenic mushrooms of Mexico), mushroom photography, PCR, sequencing, analysis and the phylogeny of basidiomycetes.

Alan will teach a Barcode DNR workshop at our Georgia Mushroom Festival on Sunday, May 22, 2022. The class is free, but RSVP is a must for organizational purposes. Ticket is required.

https://counterculturelab.org

ALLEN CARROLL

GREG LAKE, Esq,

Alan is a commercial mushroom grower and the owner of Fungi Farm, a thriving growing operation in Dadeville, AL.

Alan is closely associated with Auburn University and is dedicated to education and bringing mushroom growing into the main stream. His started the first spawn lab in Alabama.

https://fungifarmllc.com/

GREG LAKE, Esq,

Greg is a practicing attorney in Baton Rouge, LA. He is an activist leading the way to Legalization of Nature.

His new book examines the modern scientific literature evidencing the mental health benefits of various psychedelic substances.

He will provide specific legal updates at our MushFest Psilocybin Panel Discussion.

THE MAGICAL KINGDOM OF FUNGI

KINGDOM OF FUNGI

Hymenochaetales Hymenochaetoid clade

Jelly Fungi, Yeasts, and Mushrooms

David S. Hibbett

Dacrymycetes

Tremellomycetes

TREE OF LIFE

KINGDOM OF FUNGI

This tree is based on multiple analyses of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequences alone (Hibbett and Thorn 2001; Hibbett and Binder 2002) and analyses that combine protein-coding genes and rRNA genes (Matheny et al. 2007).

KINGDOM OF FUNGI

HYPHAE

A complicated, radially expanding network called the mycelium,

WALT STURGEON aka MYCO HOMBRE

Walter E. Sturgeon is one of the region's foremost mushroom hunters and wrote a long-overdue field guide to finding and identifying the mushrooms and fleshy fungi found in the Appalachian mountains from Canada to Georgia.

Prof. BILL YULE aka BOLETE BILL

Bugs, Slugs & Mushroom Thugs

Mushrooms Poisons and Poisonous Mushrooms

Prof. JAY JUSTICE aka INDIANA JONES

ALAN ROCKEFELLER Oakland, CA

REGISTER for BAR CODING WORKSHOP

Dr. Roo Vandegrift / Univ. of Oregon

Roo is a mycologist, artist and documentary film maker.

LUXURY ACCESSORIES

FUNGI T-SHIRTS

ANNA McHUGH / MYCOLOGIST

Mycologist/ Teacher

Mycologist/ Teacher

Mycologist/ Teacher

MUSHROOM T-SHIRTS

Mycologist/ Teacher

Mycologist/ Teacher

MUSHROOM VIDEOS

MUSHROOM DRAWINGS

MUSHROOM DRAWINGS

MUSHROOM DRAWINGS

MUSHROOM DRAWINGS

MUSHROOM DRAWINGS

PSILOCYBIN PANEL DISCUSSION

DR. JEFFERESON L GRAHAM

ALLEN CARROLL

GREG LAKE, Esq,

GREG LAKE, Esq,

GREG LAKE, Esq,

GREG LAKE, Esq,

GREG LAKE, Esq,

THE MAGICAL KINGDOM OF FUNGI

KINGDOM OF FUNGI

KINGDOM OF FUNGI

KINGDOM OF FUNGI

TREE OF LIFE

KINGDOM OF FUNGI

KINGDOM OF FUNGI

KINGDOM OF FUNGI

ALL ABOUT FUNGI