FFSC News & Stories

Last weekend I drove up Hwy 50 looking for Porcini. At Wrights lake, I found one buggy Bolete and several cuttings. A forest service employee who lives there told me they had a thunderstorm 3 weeks earlier - nothing since.

Fall is coming and rains will be starting, so it's a great time to improve your mushroom ID skills! Signups have begun for FFSC's fall mushroom ID classes. The four-class series will be led by Phil Carpenter on the first and fourth Wednesday: October 2, 23, November 6 and November 26 (changed to Tuesday due to proximity to Thanksgiving). You must be a FFSC member to attend this free course.

Cast your vote and celebrate with a sparkling wine toast! Isn’t democracy great? In fact, if you’re mulling over taking on a position but are still undecided, a glass to help you decide can be arranged before voting...

Dr. Dennis Desjardin will introduce students to the different kinds of mushrooms and other large fungi that occur in the spring in the Sierra Nevada.

Perusing past issues of Duff provides a great retrospective on mushrooming on the Central Coast since the founding of the Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz in 1984.

“Our dilemma is that we hate change

and love it at the same time; 

what we really want is for things to remain the same 

but get better.”

— Sydney J. Harris