For anyone who has wondered what edible mushrooms grow in Southern California and how to find them, this one’s for you. Ben Charny is bringing more than four decades of hands-on SoCal foraging experience to SDMYCO for a practical talk on finding edibles in our region. This talk will include: when to go, where to look, what to target, and what to leave behind. Ben Charny has been finding…
Intro to Low Tech Mushroom Cultivation with Dakota Rambin
SDMYCO is hosting a hands-on cultivation workshop on September 11 with educator Dakota Rambin, covering the full home-growing workflow using practical, low-tech methods that work in any home environment. This class is built for beginners and anyone who’s wanted to try growing at home but wasn’t sure where to start. Dakota walks through the full workflow, from grain spawn and sterile…
Exclusive Tour & Taste at Specialty Produce!
Ever wonder where San Diego’s chefs get their chanterelles and oyster mushrooms? We’re going behind the scenes to find out. SDMYCO is teaming up with Specialty Produce for an exclusive tour and tasting. Specialty Produce is a family-owned San Diego company that has been connecting chefs, restaurants, and food lovers with exceptional produce for more than 30 years.
Mushroom Collage Workshop with Sundari Masters
Build your own piece of the forest floor. On Monday, August 3, SDMYCO president Sundari Masters is teaching a hands-on Mushroom Collage Workshop, a dimensional mixed-media class where you’ll layer vintage botanical imagery, preserved moss and fungi, and cut paper into a fungi scene that’s entirely your own. We’ll start with a short look at collage history and what makes a composition…
Graphic Storytelling in a Fungal World with Oliver Bly
San Diego Comic Con week just got a little more mycelial. On Thursday July 23rd, we’re welcoming Oliver Bly, the writer and artist behind The Mushroom Knight, for an evening that sits right at the crossroads of mycology, mythology, and sequential art. Oliver Bly is a multi-award winning writer, animator, and comic book artist. His graphic novel series The Mushroom Knight is an…
Mushrooms in Summer: A Cooking Demo with Darren Debergh of Border City Ferments
There are few ingredients that do more in a kitchen than a mushroom, and at our July meeting, chef and fermenter Darren Debergh is going to show us exactly why. This one is a cooking demo, so expect real food, real technique, and a lot of umami. Darren Debergh has spent more than 20 years as a professional chef, and somewhere along the way he traded the line kitchen for the fermentation…
Mushrooms: Biology, ID & More! SDMYCO at the San Diego County Fair
SDMYCO is heading to the San Diego County Fair this Saturday! Our VP Tilly Sirota is giving a free public talk on mushroom biology and identification at the Paul Ecke Jr. Stage. If you’ve ever been curious about fungi and want a friendly, accessible introduction, this is a great place to start. Tilly Sirota, SDMYCO Vice President, will walk you through the basics of mushroom biology and…
Upcoming Summer Events
We have a busy summer ahead. Here’s what’s coming up, from community outreach talks around San Diego to hands-on workshops at our home in Balboa Park. This summer, SDMYCO vice president Tilly Sirota is taking our introductory mushroom talk on the road. These two events are a little different from our usual programming: rather than hosting, SDMYCO is the invited guest at events put on by…
Make Mushroom Art with Us at Our Annual Summer Potluck
This June, we’re combining two of our favorite things: making art and sharing food. Join us on Monday, June 1st at Casa Del Prado in Balboa Park for Art in the Park & Summer Potluck — our annual evening of creativity, community, and (of course) mushrooms. This year, we’re making it count. We’ll be creating original mushroom-themed artwork to hide around San Diego for Game of Shrooms…
Making Scents of Fungi: From Stench to Perfume with Christian Schwarz
Mushroom hunters have long known that a quick sniff can tell you almost as much as a careful look. That instinct, often dismissed as quirky, turns out to be a surprisingly powerful tool for fungal identification. This May, the San Diego Mycological Society (SDMYCO) is excited to welcome educator and naturalist Christian Schwarz for a lecture titled Making Scents of Fungi: From Stench to…