MSSF 54th Annual Fungus Fair – A Celebration of Wild Mushrooms
Date: Sunday, December 6, 2026
Time: 10:00am to 5:00pm
Location: El Camino High School, 1320 Mission Rd, South San Francisco, CA 94080

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Tickets may be purchased at the door with cash, or EventBrite ticket.

Workshops may sell out before fair day; purchasing tickets in advance is advised.

The MSSF Fungus Fair includes the latest collection of expertly identified fungi collected in various locations in the Bay Area. These annual collections constitute a 50-year record of the early winter fungal diversity in our area. This historical information may become an important contribution to science as climate change affects our local ecosystems.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, when the first rains tease up the chanterelles and porcini, fungus lovers head to the Fungus Fair.

The location is right across the street from South San Francisco BART station
There is ample parking
Things to do at the fair…

Creative and hands-on mushroom activities for people of all ages – Make mushroom-themed cards, ornaments, collages, hats, clay and felted sculptures, sun-prints and more… Unleash your inner mushroom fanatic at the Craft Zone!
Naturalistic displays of more than 300 species of locally collected fungi
Identification table – bring your specimens to find out the species!
Educational tables on varied subjects such as medicinal mushrooms, myco-remediation, cultivation, ecology, psychedelic fungi, dyes from fungi, toxicology, edible mushrooms, and more…
Microscopes and spore prints
Vendors with fun mushroom products
Mingle and meet other mushroom loving people
Come and try a bowl of delicious mushroom soup
Book signing by the authors

Lectures and Workshops

2026 Lectures
Speakers:
Thea Chesney – Mysteries, Oddities, and Rarities:
Cat Adams – Death Will Surely Follow: The Poisonous Chemistry That Makes Mushrooms Fascinating
Alan Rockefeller – The Mycology of Central and South America
Daniel Winkler – “Fungal Fruits of the Forest” – Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of the California North Coast

2026 Workshops
Jack Laws – Mushroom Drawing 101
JR Blair – Mushroom ID
Alan Rockefeller – Microscopy Mel Gillman – Zine Workshop (free)
Olga Tzogas – Simple Medicinal Mushroom Preparations
Eleana Hsu – Fermenting Koji

2026 Free in Craftzone
Clay with Liz Vermillion
Mushroom Cyanotypes with Karen Rusiniak (Sunprints)
Mushroom Mini Canvases
Felted Mushroom Sculptures with David Gardella
Dye workshop with Liz Vermillion
Mushroom block printing with Gabriela Medvetska
[Some Workshops require a separate add-on ticket, in addition to your general admission ticket.]

Lectures and Workshops – the 2026 line-up below!
2026 Lectures
10:30am – 12:00pm – Speaker: Thea Chesney – Topic: Mysteries, Oddities, and Rarities: Highlights from FUNDIS Challenges and Projects
12:15pm – 1:45pm – Speaker: Cat Adams – Topic: Death Will Surely Follow: The Poisonous Chemistry That Makes Mushrooms Fascinating
2:00pm – 3:30pm – Speaker: Alan Rockefeller – Topic: The Mycology of Central and South America
3:45pm – 5:00pm – Speaker: Daniel Winkler – Topic: “Fungal Fruits of the Forest” – Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of the California North Coast
2026 Workshops
10:30am – noon – Jack Laws – Mushroom Drawing 101
12:30pm – 2:00pm – JR Blair – Mushroom ID
11:00am – 1:00pm – Alan Rockefeller – Microscopy Workshop
1:30pm – 3:00pm – Mel Gillman – Zine Workshop (free)
1:30pm – 4:30pm – Olga Tzogas – Simple Medicinal Mushroom Preparations
2:30pm – 4:30pm – Eleana Hsu – Fermenting Koji
2026 Free in Craftzone
11:00am – 1:00pm – Clay with Liz Vermillion
12:00pm – 1:00 PM – Mushroom Cyanotypes with Karen Rusiniak (Sunprints)
1:00pm – 3:00pm – Mushroom Mini Canvases on Easels with Holly Bazeley
2:00pm – 4:00pm – Felted Mushroom Sculptures with David Gardella
2:00pm – 3:30pm – Dye workshop with Liz Vermillion
12:00pm – 2:00pm Mushroom block printing with Gabriela Medvetska

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For more info go to https://www.mssf.org/fungus-fairs/index.html