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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.
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.
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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.
ALAN ROCKEFELLER, Mycologist, 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, 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.
APRIL JONES, Founder of the Pinehurst Farmers Market
APRIL JONES, Founder of the Pinehurst Farmers Market
APRIL JONES, Founder of the Pinehurst Farmers Market
APRIL JONES from Columbia, SC, is joining us as a speaker with the important topic of farmers markets, food justice, agriculture and much more. I'm hoping to pick her brain about what to do about our fledgling local farmers market here in Cave Spring (started by me 2 years ago).
April is the founder of the Pinehurst Farmers Market located in downtown Columbia, S.C., in the Pinehurst neighborhood.
April advocates for her community as part of the food justice and food sovereignty movement.
She is passionate about community, gardens, and farmer markets. She is a writer and public speaker.
April also contributes content to her blog Frolicking Americana, Columbia Living Magazine and to national magazines, Mother Earth, Country Lore, The Natural Farmer, Grit, Ark Republic, and Ecoparent Magazine, Growers and Co., Farmers Market Coalition writer, Emerging Leader in food and agriculture nominee, Farmers Market Coalition writer, Sustainable Partner with Duke University Nicholas School of Environment.
April will speak at two MOTHER EARTH events next year! We can help her incorporate mushroom growing into her farmers market concepts.
SARAH PRENTICE University of Florida, Gainesville
APRIL JONES, Founder of the Pinehurst Farmers Market
APRIL JONES, Founder of the Pinehurst Farmers Market
Sarah studies mycology and is currently a teaching assistant in a course called Fungus Among Us: Mushrooms, Mold, and Civilization.
Her past presentation for the Alachua County Library District, Alachua Conservation Trust, Florida Museum of Natural History, Midwest Mushroom Camp has been about mushroom ID and/or basic fungal biology.
Sarah is currently developing her talk for MushFest (updates soon).
ANNA McHUGH: Mushroom Hunter & Artist
Anna's Talk: Mushroom Hunting Foundations 101: for people who are really new to the hobby.
anna's VIDEOS
Anna's mushroom videos are highly informational, easy to grasp and fun to watch.
FUN MUSHROOM BLING WORKSHOP
anna's art
Multi-talented ANNA draws mushrooms and designs and prints mushroom t-shirts !
GREG LAKE, Esq,
DR. BRADLEY COOKE
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.
ALLEN CARROLL
DR. BRADLEY COOKE
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.
DR. BRADLEY COOKE
DR. BRADLEY COOKE
DR. BRADLEY COOKE
Dr. Cooke is a cognitive neuroscientist,
adjunct associate professor of neuroscience and psychology at Georgia State University and works at NIH (National Institute of Health).
He will discuss recent research findings, interpret the effects of psychedelics on consciousness, and look at what value such substances hold for psychotherapy.
Dr. JEFFERSON LEE GRAHAM
Dr. Jeff has been a psilocybin researcher at the University of Birmingham and team member of other clinical trials involving psilocybin.
THE MAGICAL KINGDOM OF FUNGI
KINGDOM OF FUNGI
KINGDOM OF FUNGI
KINGDOM OF FUNGI
TREE OF LIFE
KINGDOM OF FUNGI
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).
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MAY 20 - 22
MMM-JAM is Saturday from 2-MIDNIGHT
DAY TICKET $50
PRE-JAM, Friday 2 to MIDNIGHT
DAY TICKET $30
Friday 12 p.m: Early Arrival for Weekend Ticket Holders!