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SUMMARY:BEGINNER-INTERMEDIATE WALK | LUKE MAURER AND JESSIE VARGO
DESCRIPTION:Luke Maurer and Jessie Vargo\, FeatherCap Field Guide\, FeatherCap Llc.\, Portland\, OR\n\nWhether it’s farming\, fishing\, or foraging for fungi\, FeatherCap is home to all sorts of efforts to connect you to place through your palate.  Luke and Jessie look forward to sharing in the delights of foraging edible mushrooms and reveling in the beauty and diversity of PNW fungi!\nDue to popular demand\, we are adding two more walks after the official event schedule was created!  Join this beginner-intermediate walk with Luke Maurer and Jessie Vargo.  Walk will start from the Neptune Beach South parking lot.  Please note that there are two Neptune Beach parking lots\, and this is the one past Cummins Creek away from Yachats.
URL:https://www.yachatsmushroomfestival.org/event/beginner-intermediate-walk-luke-maurer-and-jessie-vargo/
LOCATION:Neptune Beach South Parking Lot\, 95798 US-101\, Yachats\, OR\, 97498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Walks
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SUMMARY:FOREST BATHING FOR ADULTS | IRENE BAILEY $25
DESCRIPTION:SATURDAY 10AM-12PM – LOCATION: MEET AT INFORMATION TENT NEAR THE PAVILION TO CARPOOL \nWhile offering a renewed sense of interconnection with the natural world\, forest bathing also allows access to beneficial nervous system states that can support long-term health and well-being. Research has proven that forest bathing boosts immune strength\, improves cognitive functioning\, and reduces stress\, anger\, anxiety\, depression\, and sleeplessness. Offered through a series of guided invitations\, the walk will help participants move beyond the busy mind and open to a deeper sense of connection with the natural world. By being present and opening our senses\, we will intimately explore the abundance of mushrooms. Adults Only. \nAbout the speaker: Irene Elle Bailey is a designer and facilitator of nature connection and mindfulness offerings that support the remembering that we are intimately and inseparably connected to all life. Over the past 20 years\, she has worked with numerous environmental and sustainability education programs. She is the founder and director of Temenos Rising where she shares retreats\, workshops\, forest bathing walks\, and mentorship\, all held in deep relationship with the natural world. Irene holds an MS in Leadership for Sustainability Education from Portland State University and is a certified Forest Therapy Guide with the Association for Nature and Forest Therapy.
URL:https://www.yachatsmushroomfestival.org/event/forest-bathing-for-adults-irene-bailey-25/
LOCATION:Offsite
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:BEGINNER-INTERMEDIATE WALK | CHRIS MELOTTI AND MOLLY WIDMER
DESCRIPTION:SATURDAY 10AM-12PM – LOCATION: CUMMINS CREEK\nFor over 30 years\, Chris Melotti has worked as a wildlife biologist and Molly Widmer as a forest botanist. As long-term forest professionals in the Pacific Northwest\, they have learned to expand the beauty and scientific excitement of plants and animals by meeting in the middle with fungi. Bring alive your love of forests with the added love of forest fungi!
URL:https://www.yachatsmushroomfestival.org/event/beginner-intermediate-walk-chris-melotti-and-molly-widmer/
LOCATION:Cummins Creek Trailhead\, Yachats\, 97498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Walks
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SUMMARY:INTERMEDIATE-ADVANCED WALK | JOE SPIVACK
DESCRIPTION:SATURDAY 10-11:15AM – LOCATION: CAPE PERPETUA VISITOR’S CENTER \nJoe Spivack is a mushroom educator who taught community education mushroom courses for 10 years. Joe is a founding member of Cascade Mycological Society.
URL:https://www.yachatsmushroomfestival.org/event/intermediate-advanced-walk-joe-spivack/
LOCATION:Cape Perpetua\, 2400 US-101\, Yachats\, OR\, 97498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Walks
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SUMMARY:BEGINNER-INTERMEDIATE WALK | SUSIE HOLMES
DESCRIPTION:SATURDAY 10:30-11:45AM -LOCATION: CAPE PERPETUA VISITOR’S CENTER\nSusie Holmes is a founding member of the Cascade Mycological Society and biology faculty member at Lane Community College in Eugene\, Oregon\, where she teaches mushroom biology and plant science courses. With interests in biodiversity and landscape ecology\, she works with students in her classes to research phenology and fungal ecology and has co-founded a Fungal Diversity Project titled Macrofungi of Lane County. She has taught fungal microscopy courses for mycology clubs in the PNW\, and she co-organizes the annual Mount Pisgah Mushroom Festival in Eugene.
URL:https://www.yachatsmushroomfestival.org/event/beginner-intermediate-walk-susie-holmes/
LOCATION:Cape Perpetua\, 2400 US-101\, Yachats\, OR\, 97498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Walks
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SUMMARY:BEGINNER-INTERMEDIATE WALK | MATT TRAPPE
DESCRIPTION:SATURDAY 11:30AM-12:45PM – LOCATION: CAPE PERPETUA VISITOR’S CENTER\nDr. Matt Trappe is the lead author of the Field Guide to North American Truffles\, and led forays for the North American Truffling Society for 20 years as Trufflemaster. He earned his Master’s degree studying the habitat and host associations of Winter Chanterelles\, and his Ph.D. studying the effects of disturbance on fungal communities at Crater Lake National Park. He has published papers on post-Fukushima radiocesium accumulation in chanterelles\, the fossilized fungus Prototaxites\, and the enigmatic Sedecula pulvinata\, as well as formally naming and describing the culinarily valuable Oregon Brown Truffle\, Kalapuya brunnescens.
URL:https://www.yachatsmushroomfestival.org/event/beginner-intermediate-walk-matt-trappe/
LOCATION:Cape Perpetua\, 2400 US-101\, Yachats\, OR\, 97498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Walks
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SUMMARY:BEGINNER-INTERMEDIATE WALK | LUKE MAURER AND JESSIE VARGO
DESCRIPTION:Luke Maurer and Jessie Vargo\, FeatherCap Field Guide\, FeatherCap Llc.\, Portland\, OR\n\nWhether it’s farming\, fishing\, or foraging for fungi\, FeatherCap is home to all sorts of efforts to connect you to place through your palate.  Luke and Jessie look forward to sharing in the delights of foraging edible mushrooms and reveling in the beauty and diversity of PNW fungi!\nDue to popular demand\, we are adding two more walks after the official event schedule was created!  Join this beginner-intermediate walk with Luke Maurer and Jessie Vargo.  Walk will start from the Neptune Beach South parking lot.  Please note that there are two Neptune Beach parking lots\, and this is the one past Cummins Creek away from Yachats. \n 
URL:https://www.yachatsmushroomfestival.org/event/beginner-intermediate-walk-luke-maurer-and-jessie-vargo-2/
LOCATION:Neptune Beach South Parking Lot\, 95798 US-101\, Yachats\, OR\, 97498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Walks
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SUMMARY:BEGINNER-INTERMEDIATE WALK | DAN LUOMA AND JOYCE EBERHART
DESCRIPTION:SATURDAY 12-1:15PM – LOCATION: CUMMINS CREEK\nJoyce Eberhart is retired from Oregon State University after 38 years in research. For most of her career she enjoyed doing research on forest mushrooms and truffles with her husband\, Dan Luoma. Dan is a retired professor from the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State University. Dan pursued research on the diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi in natural and managed forests of the Pacific Northwest. He also conducted research on\, and developed monitoring protocols for\, commercially harvested forest mushrooms. Dan has particular expertise with those fungi that produce truffles. He has taught forest mycology through the Siskiyou Field Institute and Southern Oregon University and general mycology through OSU.
URL:https://www.yachatsmushroomfestival.org/event/beginner-intermediate-walk-dan-luoma-and-joyce-eberhart/
LOCATION:Cummins Creek Trailhead\, Yachats\, 97498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Walks
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SUMMARY:INTERMEDIATE-ADVANCED WALK | SUSIE HOLMES
DESCRIPTION:SATURDAY 12-1:15PM – LOCATION: CAPE PERPETUA VISITOR’S CENTER\nSusie Holmes is a founding member of the Cascade Mycological Society and biology faculty member at Lane Community College in Eugene\, Oregon where she teaches mushroom biology and plant science courses. With interests in biodiversity and landscape ecology\, she works with students in her classes to research phenology and fungal ecology and has co-founded a Fungal Diversity Project titled Macrofungi of Lane County. She has taught fungal microscopy courses for mycology clubs in the PNW and she co-organizes the annual Mount Pisgah Mushroom Festival in Eugene.
URL:https://www.yachatsmushroomfestival.org/event/intermediate-advanced-walk-susie-holmes/
LOCATION:Cape Perpetua\, 2400 US-101\, Yachats\, OR\, 97498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Walks
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SUMMARY:CATCHING 'EM\, KEEPING 'EM\, COOKING 'EM | LINCOLN COUNTY MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY $10
DESCRIPTION:SATURDAY 12-2PM -LOCATION: PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH \nIn this workshop\, LCMS presenters will share their best tips on harvesting\, preserving\, and cooking wild mushrooms with a focus on the edible wild mushrooms of the Oregon Coast. The discussion will include their knowledge of flavor profiles and the physical diversity of these mushrooms to decide how best to prepare them for the table. Following the presentation\, participants will enjoy a sampling of “small bites” of several different mushroom dishes made with locally foraged mushrooms and prepared by the Lincoln County Mycological Society’s Kitchen Elves. Each dish is intended to illustrate how people of the world incorporate mushrooms in their cuisine as we celebrate a World of Mushrooms. \nAbout the speakers: \nCathy Piazza\, a native Oregonian\, has lived in Lincoln County since 1988. She is a retired teacher who has been a member of LCMS for more than 5 years. She enjoys foraging for mushrooms and eating them as often as possible. This is all she thinks about during the mushroom season. \nAnna Moore retired from UC Berkeley in 2005 and lives in Florence Oregon\, where she forages in the Siuslaw National Forest for mushrooms and hikes the local beaches for agates. She became interested in mushrooms in the mid-1980s and has foraged for them in California for years. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.yachatsmushroomfestival.org/event/catching-em-keeping-em-cooking-em-lincoln-county-mycological-society-10/
LOCATION:Presbyterian Church\, 360 W 7th St\, Yachats\, OR\, 97498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:INTERMEDIATE-ADVANCED WALK | JON SOMMER
DESCRIPTION:SATURDAY 1-2:15PM – LOCATION: CAPE PERPETUA VISITOR’S CENTER\nJon Sommer has led mushroom forays\, given lectures on a range of mycological topics\, and taught mushroom identification across the United States for more than five decades. He is a well-known speaker and presenter for mycological societies and forays across the country. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Botany at Humboldt State University in Arcata\, California\, and two Master’s Degrees from the University of California\, Davis (Botany & Plant Pathology). He has studied mushroom identification with notable mycologists\, including Drs. David Largent\, Orson K. Miller Jr.\, and Harry D. Thiers. A resident of Colorado for 30 years\, and now living on the Oregon coast\, Jon has in-depth knowledge of fungi across the US\, and particularly northern California and Oregon. He is the immediate Past President of the Colorado Mycological Society and is the current Vice President of the Lincoln County Mycological Society in Oregon.
URL:https://www.yachatsmushroomfestival.org/event/intermediate-advanced-walk-jon-sommer/
LOCATION:Cape Perpetua\, 2400 US-101\, Yachats\, OR\, 97498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Walks
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY 1:30-2:45PM - BEGINNER-INTERMEDIATE WALK | LEE YAMADA LOCATION: CUMMINS CREEK
DESCRIPTION:SATURDAY 1:30-2:45PM – LOCATION: CUMMINS CREEK\nLee Yamada: I’ve been interested in mushrooms for a long time. I’ve been hunting mushrooms for a long time\, way before the 80’s. I started to study mushrooms in the early 80s. I joined the San Francisco Mycological Society\, the Santa Cruz Fungus Federation\, and now I’m a Board member of Eugene Cascade Mycological Society. I have gained a huge amount of knowledge about mushrooms\, and I like to talk about them.
URL:https://www.yachatsmushroomfestival.org/event/saturday-130-245pm-beginner-intermediate-walk-lee-yamada-location-cummins-creek/
LOCATION:Cummins Creek Trailhead\, Yachats\, 97498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Walks
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SUMMARY:BEGINNER-INTERMEDIATE WALK | KRISTEN AND TRENT BLIZZARD
DESCRIPTION:SATURDAY 1:30-2:45PM -LOCATION: CAPE PERPETUA VISITOR’S CENTER\nTrent and Kristen Blizzard are the authors of Wild Mushrooms: A Cookbook and Foraging Guide and the publishers of GeoForager maps. They have been trekking the forests of Colorado\, the Upper Midwest and the Pacific Northwest for years mostly with wild\, edible mushrooms in mind. At first a hobby\, the hunt for mushrooms quickly became nothing short of an obsession. Trent is the President of North American Mycological Association and a certified Wild Mushroom Identifier in Colorado. Kristen serves as NAMA’s Website Committee Chair.
URL:https://www.yachatsmushroomfestival.org/event/beginner-intermediate-walk-kristen-and-trent-blizzard/
LOCATION:Cape Perpetua\, 2400 US-101\, Yachats\, OR\, 97498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Walks
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251018T143000
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SUMMARY:A GLIMPSE INTO THE WORLD OF MUSHROOMS FOR YOUNGSTERS | JENNIFER MACONE $15
DESCRIPTION:SATURDAY 2-3:30PM – LOCATION: MEDIUM TENT NEXT TO CHYRA \nYouth (suggested ages 5-12) are invited to a hands-on workshop to explore all things mushroom. Learn mushroom basics\, assemble a take-home oyster mushroom kit\, learn how to make a spore print\, and get creative with mushroom-based art. \nAbout the speaker: Jennifer Macone has been cultivating\, wild harvesting\, and researching mushrooms for over 20 years. She is co-owner of The Mushroomery\, a certified organic mushroom farm nestled in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains in Lebanon\, Oregon. Jennifer is dedicated to providing the public with a wide variety of cultivated and wild\, gourmet and medicinal mushrooms weekly at farmers’ markets. She also loves sharing her knowledge—from indoor and outdoor mushroom growing\, to preserving mushrooms\, and preparing them in delicious and creative ways.
URL:https://www.yachatsmushroomfestival.org/event/a-glimpse-into-the-world-of-mushrooms-for-youngsters-jennifer-macone-15/
LOCATION:Big Top Tent\, 441 Hwy 101\, Yachats\, OR\, 97498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:BEGINNER-INTERMEDIATE WALK | MATT TRAPPE
DESCRIPTION:SATURDAY 2:30-3:45PM – LOCATION: CAPE PERPETUA VISITOR’S CENTER\nDr. Matt Trappe is the lead author of the Field Guide to North American Truffles\, and led forays for the North American Truffling Society for 20 years as Trufflemaster. He earned his Master’s degree studying the habitat and host associations of Winter Chanterelles\, and his Ph.D. studying the effects of disturbance on fungal communities at Crater Lake National Park. He has published papers on post-Fukushima radiocesium accumulation in chanterelles\, the fossilized fungus Prototaxites\, and the enigmatic Sedecula pulvinata\, as well as formally naming and describing the culinarily valuable Oregon Brown Truffle\, Kalapuya brunnescens.
URL:https://www.yachatsmushroomfestival.org/event/beginner-intermediate-walk-matt-trappe-2/
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CATEGORIES:Walks
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SUMMARY:HOW TO SAFELY IDENTIFY YOUR EDIBLE MUSHROOMS | DANIEL WINKLER $20
DESCRIPTION:SATURDAY 2:30-4:30PM – LOCATION: LION’S CLUB \nThe workshop offers a hands-on experience how to identify mushrooms. You are welcome to bring your own. We will discuss what tools\, i.e. books\, programs and apps (bring your favorites or get my PNW edible mushroom book “Fruits of the Forest” at the event) are best used to get you started. How to use these tools safely – always double or better triple check someone else’s suggestion and relate an identification to the actual mushroom we try to identify. We will look at the major groups of mushrooms and talk about their specific helpful characteristics for safe identification. \nAbout the speaker: Ethnomycologist and photographer Daniel Winkler grew up collecting mushrooms in the Alps. Winkler has served as vice president of the Puget Sound Mycological Society and\, through his travel agency\, Mushroaming\, he runs mushroom-focused eco-tours around the world. Winkler is this year’s Yachats Mushroom Festival keynote speaker.
URL:https://www.yachatsmushroomfestival.org/event/how-to-safely-identify-your-edible-mushrooms-daniel-winkler-20/
LOCATION:Lion’s Club\, 344 4th St.\, Yachats\, 97498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:INTERMEDIATE-ADVANCED WALK | DAVE PILZ
DESCRIPTION:SATURDAY 3-4:15PM – LOCATION: CUMMINS CREEK\nDave Pilz is a retired forest mycologist. During his career\, he spent nine years conducting research on the Productivity and Sustainable Harvest of Edible Forest Mushrooms at the Pacific Northwest Research Station (USDA-Forest Service) in Corvallis\, Oregon. Subsequently\, he worked four more years as a Forest Mycologist with Oregon State University. In these venues\, he published research on the compatible harvest of commercially valuable fungi in forests also managed for timber and other amenities. PDF files of many of his publications may be obtained at: www.pilzwald.com/publications
URL:https://www.yachatsmushroomfestival.org/event/intermediate-advanced-walk-dave-pilz/
LOCATION:Cummins Creek Trailhead\, Yachats\, 97498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Walks
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SUMMARY:BEGINNER-INTERMEDIATE WALK | TRENT AND KRISTEN BLIZZARD
DESCRIPTION:SATURDAY 3-4:15PM – LOCATION: CAPE PERPETUA VISITOR’S CENTER\nTrent and Kristen Blizzard are the authors of Wild Mushrooms: A Cookbook and Foraging Guide and the publishers of GeoForager maps. They have been trekking the forests of Colorado\, the Upper Midwest and the Pacific Northwest for years mostly with wild\, edible mushrooms in mind. At first a hobby\, the hunt for mushrooms quickly became nothing short of an obsession. Trent is the President of the North American Mycological Association and a certified Wild Mushroom Identifier in Colorado. Kristen serves as NAMA’s Website Committee Chair.
URL:https://www.yachatsmushroomfestival.org/event/beginner-intermediate-walk-trent-and-kristen-blizzard/
LOCATION:Cape Perpetua\, 2400 US-101\, Yachats\, OR\, 97498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Walks
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SUMMARY:USING INATURALIST TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE WORLD OF MUSHROOMS: A HANDS-ON LESSON | ANN GODDARD NO FEE
DESCRIPTION:SATURDAY 3:30-5PM – LOCATION: PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH \nJoin this hands-on workshop guiding you on how to use the app iNaturalist in the field and at home on the computer. Bring your cell phone to practice. \nAbout the speaker: Goddard is an amateur mycologist\, particularly studying mushrooms of the Sitka spruce forest of the Oregon coast for the last 43 years. She is a regular contributor to iNaturalist. \nAbout iNaturalist: iNaturalist is a social network for sharing biodiversity information to help each other learn about nature. The primary goal is to connect people to nature\, and the secondary goal is to generate scientifically valuable biodiversity data from these personal encounters.
URL:https://www.yachatsmushroomfestival.org/event/using-inaturalist-to-contribute-to-the-world-of-mushrooms-a-hands-on-lesson-ann-goddard-no-fee/
LOCATION:Presbyterian Church\, 360 W 7th St\, Yachats\, OR\, 97498\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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