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- FFSC Minister Elections 2013 | Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz
News & Stories / Stewardship FFSC Minister Elections 2013 The Fungus Federation By-Laws call for election of Club Ministers (Officers) every two years. Phil Carpenter • April 1, 2013 Ministers 2011. Illustration by Angele Mele We are now at the end of the current two year term and re-election of Ministers will be conducted at our last regular meeting of this mushroom season in May. Our bylaws also call for a slate of Ministers nominated for the next season to be announced in the April and May issues of the DUFF . At the April general meeting, the Ministers nominated will be announced and additional nominations from the floor will be taken. The slate to date is printed below. Duties of the various Ministers can be seen in the bylaws. This notice is a call for nominations for the elected Minister positions. If you are interested in doing some interesting and rewarding work, please notify me regarding the position you are interested in. While some Ministers have graciously consented to continue their positions for another two years, all positions are open for nomination (volunteering) and election. We would welcome the chance to have two people vying for a position! As someone who has been a Minister for most of the 25+ years that the FFSC has been around, I can attest that it is a lot of fun (the monthly Minister’s meetings alone are worth it!) and a great group of which to be a part. Consider joining us! Phil Carpenter Prime Minister Members Only Content Login Join FFSC Related Posts Elections 2013: Wednesday May 15th Previous Article All News & Stories Next Article
- Peter Vahlberg | Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz
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- Earth Star | Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz
Earth Star (Astraeus hygrometricus). Photo by Tim Teske Earth Star Tim Teske Found in Rancho San Antonio park along the Rogue Valley Trail. Appeared shortly after a brief day of rain during an unusually dry season. Learn more about the genus Astraeus : Astraeus (fungus) , Wikipedia Barometer Earthstars (Genus Astraeus) , iNaturalist California Mushrooms, page 460 Astraeus hygrometricus , Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast, page 533 Camera Apple iPhone X Focal L. 4mm Aperture f/1.8 Shutter Sp. 1/100s ISO 40 Flash Off Photo taken on December 23, 2017 Mushroom(s) ... Previous Photo Back to Gallery Next Photo
- Happy New Year from the CEO, 2001 | Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz
News & Stories / Happy New Year from the CEO, 2001 Happy New Year! I trust your holidays were great, with plenty of candy caps in your stockings and boletes on your latkes. Deb • January 1, 2001 Marasmius oreades (fairy ring marasmius) © mitchellpittsley (CC-BY-NC) (from inaturalist.org, obs. 185374436) I'm happy to say that with the new year we have a new Minister of Propaganda, Madeleine Wyke. Madeleine is from Sweden, loves mushrooming, has a wonderful laugh and I believe she can catch a copy error at twenty paces. Welcome, Madeleine! Many thanks to Marje Young and Larry Payne for their great work on the Duff . Don't miss the 27th Annual Fungus Fair. The Friday evening preview reception for FFSC and Museum Association members is a wonderful opportunity to see and admire the displays without the crowds. As always, we need your help with setup the week prior, various jobs during the fair, and cleanup at the end. Our Fair is truly superb, gets better every year, and I am very proud of it. Thanks for helping out! Members Only Content Login Join FFSC Related Posts Previous Article All News & Stories Next Article
- Echo Summit 2015 Foray Report | Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz
News & Stories / Echo Summit 2015 Foray Report Another great Echo Summit Foray is in the history books. Anne Stockel • September 21, 2015 Lisa finds a Ganoderma tsugae (North American Hemlock Reishi) at Echo Summit (2015) Members Only Content Login Join FFSC Related Posts 2013 Echo Summit Foray Recap Previous Article All News & Stories Next Article
- FFSC History | Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz
FFSC History In the Fall of 1984, 20 people attended the first meeting of the Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz. The club was founded to make learning about wild mushrooms interesting to both science oriented and curious naturalists alike, and above all to make the hunt and ID fun for everyone and their families. First Duff Illustration Spores The Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz (FFSC) was founded by David Arora in 1984. There were two Fungus Federations before ours, one in Pasadena, CA and one at University of California Santa Cruz. First newsletter and invitation to join FFSC The idea to form a mushroom club in Santa Cruz grew out of David's fungus fairs held at the Santa Cruz Natural History Museum (1974), Sanborn Park in Saratoga, CA, and Coyote Point in the San Francisco Bay Area. These fairs were well attended by curious members of the public, encouraged by the museums as a public event. Requests by interested persons for more information led to classes on taxonomy, field trips, and eventually his published field guide Mushrooms Demystified. (Which came to be known among FFSC members as "the Bible".) Hyphae David Arora drew interested parties from the rosters of his classes, and his fellow fungifiles in Santa Cruz, to discuss the formation of a club and to see who among them would be willing to participate in such a venture. They would hold monthly meetings during the mushroom season to discuss fungi appearing that month, have general identification discussions, speakers, and have group forays to local areas to gather mushrooms and learn about habitat. The club would also be responsible for gathering mushrooms for the Fungus Fair. The club's first newsletter in 1984 would be entitled The Federation Flyer , renamed to Ascus the following month, and to Duff a year later. Not everyone was enthusiastic about local forays. Fearing they might lose the secrecy of their hunting spots. Nevertheless, in the Fall of 1984 the first meeting of the Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz was held at the Natural History Museum and was attended by about 20 people. Officers were appointed and volunteers accepted to run the organization with a $25.00 annual membership fee. David named the officers "Ministers" to keep everyone from taking themselves too seriously. Among those in attendance were: Luen Miller, Newsletter editor and Mushroom of the Month writer; Bob Sellers, Foray leader and newsletter contributor; Craig Mitchell, membership; Ed Aguilar, Long Distance foray leader; Joe DeSmet, Treasurer and Non-profit organizer; Bo Heinricks, writer; Lia Matera, author of Mushroom Mystery books; Shea Moss, Culinary Coordinator; Jerry Moss, member; Anne, member; Joy Churchman, member; Bill McGuire, member; John Anderson, Museum Director; Patricia, head of museum volunteers, and David Arora, Founder. The underlying purpose of the club was to make learning about wild mushrooms interesting to both science oriented and curious naturalists alike, and above all to make the hunt and ID fun for everyone including their families. Announcement of the 1984 Fungus Fair in Ascus newsletter The first FFSC-sponsored Fungus Fair was held at the Santa Cruz City Museum (now the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History) and was attended by record crowds. Club members now swollen to 50 and their families were enlisted to hunt in organized forays the week prior to the fair. Volunteers turned the museum into a sylvan forest using local materials, and filled baskets with mushrooms identified and tagged so onlookers could compare them to what they might see while walking in the woods or their backyards. Books on fungi, t-shirts and aprons were sold. Miriam Rice gave a demonstration of mushroom dyes. Chanterelle soup and CandyCap cookies were available for sale to pique the interest of those on the fringe of "why hunt wild mushrooms?" And The FFSC was on its way. It was not long before the Natural History Museum could no longer hold all the people who were drawn to the Fungus Fair. 1998 Fungus Fair Recap in the Duff newsletter In 1998, the Fair was held at Harvey West Park, with great success. In 1999, the new location became the Loudon Nelson Community Center (now corrected to Lo n don Nelson) in downtown Santa Cruz. A large auditorium was available to house the Fair, and 5 classrooms were available to provide space for speakers, vendors, and a kids room, and a cafeteria to hold a sold out "After hours dinner" on Friday night. Mycelium The FFSC has gained recognition as a major player in mycological organizations in North America, Mexico, and Europe. Phil Carpenter, who joined in 1984, continues to teach Mushroom ID workshops, which garner both scientific and culinary interest and routinely sell out. One of our members, Christian Schwartz, a Mycologist at University of California Santa Cruz, put forward a proposal for a new documented library of species identification with DNA testing and the FFSC embraced it. We reached out to the North American Mycological Association to include other mushroom clubs to help with the funding and to contribute fungus species. A scholarship program for university students interested in pursuing the study of fungi was instituted in the late 90s. "Fungus Fair postponed due to good weather" --Calendar page from 1987 Duff Since 1984, the paid membership has grown from 20 to over 425 family and individual memberships. Each year there are more forays, events, and speakers. Numerous local forays are held for members and the general public weekly during the season. Long Distance forays to the Sierra, Mendocino, Sonoma County, and Alaska are held in Fall, Spring, and Summer. The Duff newsletter evolved from print to PDF, and then to an earlier version of this website. In 1998 the FFSC sponsored the North American Mycological Association foray at Asilomar. 500+ Guests from all mushroom clubs in North America attended. Member dinners and parties included: The Holiday Potluck in December, Celebrity Chef pop up dinners, the Friday night After Hours Dinner after the Fair, Wine and Mushroom Dinner, and the Continental Beer Picnic (now called Suds & 'Shrooms). All long distance forays included a potluck dinner -- whether camping or staying in lodging. We published the final Duff newsletter in May 2013, and published all content online thereafter. In January 2024 we celebrated the 50th Fungus Fair in Santa Cruz. This was the 37th fair organized by the FFSC—each succeeding fair drawing more people than the last. Nearly 6,000 paying guests were noted at the 2024 Fungus Fair. This count did not include children under 12, who were admitted free of charge, or the school classes and seniors admitted for free to the Friday afternoon opening of the 50th Fair. 2025 Fungus Fair Volunteers. Photo by Peter Mu The attitude fostered by the FFSC is "Keeping the fun in fungus". We know each other. We help each other learn and include one and all into our fold. We work hard, we play hard. Many enduring friendships have evolved. Lifelong partnerships, weddings etc, are common. Science, the Hunt, the food and wine are all part of the package. One visiting mycologist from out of State attended a party with me after an exhausting day at the fair. He was greeted with hugs and acceptance by all. He remarked in awe, "This is not just any mushroom club, you are all friends." When it rains it spores! Shea Moss Members Only Content Login Join FFSC
- Echo Summit 2010 Rocked | Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz
News & Stories / Field Reports Echo Summit 2010 Rocked We came, we forayed, and everyone scored boletes. The food was awesome, the company outstanding and the dehydrators were humming. All the above was accompanied by beautiful warm and sunny weather. Bill White • October 1, 2010 Phil and Margaret with a few of the many boletes found over the weekend. Photo by Debbie Johnson Saturday dinner featured Marje Young’s incredible Chicken with Olives, Onions and Sage . And Dennis Nolan served up a first for many with his Bolete Fries . Members Only Content Login Join FFSC Related Posts Echo Summit Lodge – SOS 2013 Echo Summit Foray Recap Previous Article All News & Stories Next Article
- Stephanie S. Jarvis, MSc | Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz
Stephanie S. Jarvis, MSc Dir. of Mycology R&D | M2 Ingredients; Founder | Pacific Truffle Growers Stephanie Jarvis is an interdisciplinary mycologist and executive cultivator with over 20 years of leadership in solid-state fermentation, fungal biotechnology, and ecological restoration. With a Master of Science in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology from San Francisco State University, her groundbreaking thesis on the Lycoperdaceae of California included statewide fungal surveys, DNA sequencing, and the discovery of two new species. Stephanie has since built a career at the intersection of applied science and regenerative agriculture. She is the founder of Pacific Truffle Growers, where she leads orchard restoration, truffle DNA diagnostics, and mycorrhizal cultivation strategies across the U.S.A. Her dual background in taxonomy and field management has made her a trusted consultant for landowners, mushroom farms, and food innovators alike. Additionally, Ms. Jarvis is the Director of Mycology for the largest functional mushroom farm in North America, M2 Ingredients, where she spearheads many R&D projects to improve the efficacy of the functional mushroom industry. A recognized authority in functional mushroom cultivation, Stephanie has developed substrate efficiency protocols for species like Hericium erinaceus , Cordyceps militaris , and Ganoderma lucidum , leveraging qPCR and NGS to validate species purity and optimize biological efficiency. Her passion for sustainable systems includes pioneering the reuse of wine industry byproducts for Shiitake and Oyster mushroom cultivation. Beyond the lab and field, Stephanie is an award-winning educator, keynote speaker, and lifelong mentor. She has led university biology clubs, authored public-facing educational programs, and served as an advisor to the North American Truffle Growers Association. Certified as both an arborist and fermentation specialist, she brings rare fluency in science, soil, and storytelling — cultivating not only fungi but futures. Stephanie Jarvis in Spain with Tuber melanosporum 2018 Upcoming Santa Cruz Fungus Fair Talks Buy Tickets Truffles: The Egos, Ecology, and Economics of Cultivating and Hunting Nature’s Nuggets of Gold Because these fungi are far more than gourmet ingredients — they’re ecological power players, political lightning rods, and the ultimate test of patience for… Show More Saturday, January 10, 2026 11:05 AM - 12:05 PM Room 3 Past Santa Cruz Fungus Fair Talks Truffles: The Egos, Ecology, and Economics of Cultivating and Hunting Nature’s Nuggets of Gold Because these fungi are far more than gourmet ingredients — they’re ecological power players, political lightning rods, and the ultimate test of patience for growers. In this talk, mycologist Stephanie Jarvis takes you beneath the soil to explore the history, science, human drama, and real-world economics behind truffle cultivation. From wild foraging ecologies and insect symbioses to inoculation techniques, soil chemistry, irrigation systems, and electroculture, learn what truly makes a truffle orchard succeed — and what makes it fail. Part science, part storytelling, part agricultural strategy, this session is a deep dive into one of nature’s most mysterious and valuable organisms.Why do truffles inspire obsession, competition, and entire underground economies? Santa Cruz Fungus Fair Saturday, January 10, 2026 11:05 AM - 12:05 PM Room 3
- Albion I 2002: Species List | Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz
News & Stories / Field Reports Albion I 2002: Species List Our members collected over 200 species at our first Albion foray of the season. Henry Young • March 1, 2002 Hypholoma fasciculare. © Damon Tighe (CC-BY-NC) (from inaturalist.org, ID 67267989) Members Only Content Login Join FFSC Related Posts Albion I Foray, December 2003 Albion I Foray 2005 Species List Previous Article All News & Stories Next Article
- Porcini Pastries | Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz
Porcini Pastries This recipe is inspired by Eastern European pastries. Give it a try, and let us know what you think! by Bo Letos Boletus edulis. © Darvin DeShazer (CC-BY-NC) (from inaturalist.org, obs. 324431143) Method Dough Combine flour, salt and baking powder in a large bowl. Cut in butter till mixture is crumbly. Stir in yogurt till a ball of soft dough forms. Wrap in wax paper and refrigerate. Filling Boil potatoes with skins on and chop into quarters. Soak boletes in 1 cup hot water for about 20 minutes or until reconstituted. Drain and reserve the liquid. Chop the mushrooms. Heat oil in a skillet, and add onions and garlic, then sauté till translucent. Add boletes and sauté about 5 minutes. Add the mushroom-soaking liquid and continue to sauté till 2-3 Tbsp. of liquid remains. Add the potatoes, caraway, savory and eggs. If mixture seems very dry, add softened cream cheese. Assemble and Bake Preheat oven to 375°F. Remove dough from refrigerator, and divide into eight equal sized balls. Roll each ball to about 1/4 thick, and shape into rectangles. Place about 1/4 cup of the filling in center of each rectangle. Fold long sides of dough inwards, then seal by wetting the overlaps with water. Fold the shorter sides of dough inwards, then seal by wetting the overlaps lightly with water. Place on a cookie sheet with the folded side down. Bake in a preheated 375 oven for 30 minutes or till golden brown. Recipe contributed: November 1994 Editor's note: This recipe was inspired by a recipe found in the Asheville Mushroom Club's March 1993 issue of Sporadic News . Objective: Main course Total Time: About an hour Yield: About 4 servings Suggested Mushrooms: Porcini (Boletus edulis, Boletus regineus, Boletus rex-veris) Join FFSC or renew your membership to access the rest of this content. Join FFSC Login as an FFSC member to access the rest of this content. Login Ingredients Dough 2 1/2 Cups flour 2 tsp. baking powder 1/4 tsp. salt 1 c. butter 1 c. yogurt extra flour for rolling Filling 1 1/2 oz. (one and a half ounces) dried boletes 6 medium red potatoes 1 chopped onion 2 cloves garlic, chopped 2 Tbsp. oil 1/3 tsp. caraway seeds 1/2 tsp. savory 2 hard-boiled eggs, chopped Salt & pepper to taste Previous Recipe All Recipes Next Recipe
- North to Alaska v.2 | Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz
News & Stories / Field Reports North to Alaska v.2 Sunrise...again? It just went down! On your mark, get set, hunt! Hugh Smith • September 1, 2011 Tricholoma murrillianum (magnivelare) (matsutake). Photo by Hugh Smith Yes, sunrise again. It rises slowly and in an odd place, south of East. Then it stays up for a long time. A long time! The days are currently 15 hours, 40 minutes, losing 5 minutes per day. And don’t miss the sunset. Oh, but you won’t. It lasts as long as the sunrise. And it sets in an odd place too, south of West. Colorful and glorious. The arc of the sun up here is about the same as the arc of a rainbow, 43 degrees of sky. This is dictated by our position and distance from our sun. Ever wonder why you can’t take a picture of a complete rainbow with any basic lens? Now you know. I was told to buy pepper spray to carry with me in the forest in case of an encounter with Bears. The problem with this idea is everyone has Pepper Spray. This means no one could possibly tell which Bear pile was you. And as for wearing bells... there are so many people with these too, so it sounds like a herd of goats walking through the woods and there’s no way to tell when one of you is missing. Does a Bear and a cask of Amontillado ring any bells? Most of the time I wore a hat. A hat not only keeps your glasses dry but can be very useful for pushing through the bush while keeping your eyes to the ground. There are mushrooms everywhere! Like I said, in the woods where I’m from, the trees are not nearly this close together. Here, you could be pushing through trees constantly. The trees can be 3 feet apart! They are all touching! And, a hat also prevents me from getting Gorbys on my shiny head. The one day I forgot to wear it...got a Gorby. Richard and I were in the woods, staying off trail. It’s like floating through the forest, walking on a two foot thick carpet of plush, undulating Sphagnum Moss. There are mushrooms everywhere! So here comes this small group of people, walking down a trail near us (the forest is so dense, so unlike what we’re familiar with, that just a few feet off the trail you are completely invisible.) Richard and I started grunting and growling. The women in the group immediately turned and ran back from whence they came. We then spoke to them to allay their fears. They said that wasn’t very funny and that they had just seen three bears. Three? That means two cubs. Later, Sandi and I were walking through the woods and this time we were walking ON a trail. There was a noise in the bushes. It grew louder and it was very near. Not being a familiar sound, my hair stood up all over my body and the adrenaline flowed. Richard could no longer compose himself as he watched us scurry about, bumping into each other with terrified looks on our faces, questioning our survival. Actually, though, I wasn’t scared. I was reaching for my camera. On another hunt, we went to a place called Moose Flat. It’s a day use area and it was a Saturday. Not a soul was there. Kind of like a Bolete hunt. Nobody around. As we pulled in to the area, there before us was a mother Moose and her baby. Sandi screeched so loud she scared off the Moose from 50 yards away with the windows up. Can you imagine what it sounded like inside the van? Today it’s raining... somewhere. Not here. We spent the day along a road near a great lake in a vast array of habitats (lots of secret laughing places) and didn’t see a drop of rain. As we drove back toward the lodge after a short days hunt (only 8 hours) we came into rain. There were sheets of water on the road and hydroplaning was a concern. Gullies had formed in Bill and Geri’s driveway. Who could have guessed only a few miles east of here it never hinted at rain? But... there’s still daylight, so let’s hunt! Can you imagine a King Bolete every 3 feet in every direction in an area the size of a large room? OK, I’m exaggerating. Can you imagine a King Bolete every 4 feet in every direction in an area the size of a large room? And no competition? Difficult to imagine, isn’t it? But if you can, then you’ve probably been to Alaska. I have, so I knew what to expect. And when you go, you’ll know what to expect, too. Expect the unexpected. So many Boletes, so few dryers. Some people were buying them after we got up there. I sent two dehydrators ahead from California so they’d be there when I arrived. Amazon had free shipping and I taped them together as one for the ride home. I ran them 24 hours a day but the last day I didn’t pick any since there was no more time to dry them. There is only one species of Moose (here), two species of Rabbit (here), 1 species of Ice Worm (here), 1 species of Porcupine (here), 2 kinds of music (Country & Western), and 1 species of Human. And although there are very few species of trees on the Kenai Peninsula, the number of mushroom species and even the number of mushroom genera will surprise anyone. Last year we documented 192 species and this year I counted more than 130 not including Cortinarius ! I appeared to be the only one counting, but I could not have found so many on my own. All of those eyes, old and new are most valuable and ap-preciated. 2011 Alaska Foray participants. Photo by Hugh Smith Known edibles (if someone cooks them for you) are numerous as well. If no one cooks, then none are edible. Our group prepared many, including 2 Pleurotus species, 4 Leccinum species, Boletus grand-edulis , Hawk Wings, Gypsies, and Hericium ramosum . The Leccinum , Hericium and Boletus were the best of all. Others that were identified but not prepared were Shrimp Russula ( Russula xerampelina ), Brown Matsutake ( Tricholoma caligatum ), Hedgehogs ( Hydnum umbilicatum ), Chicken of the Woods ( Laetiporus coniferacola ) Man On Horseback ( Tricholoma flavovirens ) and Panaeolus (!). On another one of our many forays, we went in search of Gypsy mushrooms, formerly Rozites caperatus and now Cortinarius caperatus . These are easily identifiable once you have seen the look-alikes. After that, we hunted Kings again. Found another new spot to hunt too, about a mile long. Add one more place to the hunting list, Bill. After this we went to Seward, a port town to the south. Seward sits below the Harding Ice Field, a 500 square mile blanket of ice on top of a mountain range that feeds numerous Glaciers. The most accessible glacier is Exit Glacier. Of course, there are mushrooms at the glacier, and Slime Molds too. It’s impossible to imagine that not too long ago, the areas where we stood and walked were completely covered under a sheet of heavy, grinding ice. No plants, nothing. Only Ice Worms. After getting as close as was allowed to the glacier we then went to the outwash plain. Many people walked right up to the leading edge of the glacier and several of us walked out onto the cobblestone plain to catch some ancient ice. Unlike regular ice, glacial ice is almost free of air bubbles and therefore is perfectly clear. But many other substances can be trapped in this ice and through the eons, inevitably, many things have been. Since this ice is clear, it is only intermittently visible as it flows and tumbles past you in the silt laden fast moving water. This is a fair size river coming out of just this one glacier and ice chunks of all sizes are tumbling down the river, some too large to pick up. Richard held onto me as I attempted to lean out and grab a piece as they rushed by but I was unsuccessful. Bill leaned out to grab one and almost fell in. I said, “Bill, I saw signs everywhere that said children don’t float.” But he managed to get a nice chunk of ice and in it were spots of what appeared to be volcanic ash. The spots were uniform gray and clay-like, not gritty like you might expect. And these spots were throughout the ice rather than in a sedimentary layer. We ate some of this ancient frozen water. Sandi got ash on her tongue. How long ago did this ash fall and from what volcano? Was it an Alaskan volcano? Or was it from Russia or Japan? How many mushroom spores were embedded in this single piece of ice? How many species? Were they still viable? I pondered. What a place. What a planet! The day we left Sterling, we went early and stopped at Girdwood. They were having their 4th annual Fungus Fair. It was Sunday and the fair was winding down. Ryane Snow, Patrick Hamilton and Connie Green were there. I didn’t see them but we saw people from our original group and Henry and Marjorie Young were in attendance, and on their way to Bill and Geri’s to replace us. I feel we were here early this year (mushroom season-wise) and they were prob-ably going to witness a greater abundance than us. But how could that possibly be? The Fungus Fair had 3 tables of mushrooms. If only they could have met up with us. To my knowledge our species lists surpasses theirs from one year alone. Bill and Jerri, thank you so much for making this kind of mushroom foray possible. The forays, Pot Lucks and campfires were such a blast! Toni, remember that bottle of Tequila you brought up there last year? It’s still there along with another bottle. All of the mushroom dishes (cough), the salmon dishes (choke, except for the Filet O’Mac) and the hot dogs (Sphincters, lips and eyelids, yeah!) and S’Mores (hold the Graham Crackers and the Marshmallows please) will never be forgotten. Without you two, we might never have known there could be such a place with such great diversity and abundance. Let’s hunt! Members Only Content Login Join FFSC Related Posts Foraging in Alaska in 2008 Field Reports The Great Alaska Foray 2010 Field Reports 2009 Alaska Foray Travelogue Field Reports Previous Article All News & Stories Next Article
- Santa Cruz Fungus Fair After Hours Dinner | Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz Fungus Fair After Hours Dinner On opening night of the Santa Cruz Fungus Fair each January, we indulge in a multi-course prix fixe meal crafted by a celebrity chef. Each year brings a unique selection of tasty mushroom dishes, and may include wine pairing, music, and/or other activities. Tickets to the After Hours Dinner usually go on sale in early December, and sell out quickly. (Fungus Fair General admission tickets do not include the dinner.) Examples of Past Dinners 2025 Menu presented by Chef Chad Hyatt Wine pairings by Jeff Emery, Winemaker, Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard Live music by George Heagerty & Never the Same Members Only Content Login Join FFSC











