Annual Telluride Gathering of Mushroom Hunters Slated for August 21-24

Highlights: Mushroom forays, workshops, Shroom Parade, and feast

The annual Telluride Mushroom Festival designed for people interested in edible, psychoactive, and poisonous wild mushrooms will be held in Telluride, Colorado, Aug. 21-24.

The festival features mushroom lectures, forays, hands-on identification and cultivation workshops, and a mushroom feast, featuring mushroom dishes created by the chefs of Telluride s top restaurants. There s even mushroom poetry and a mushroom parade down the main street of Telluride.

Experienced guides will lead daily fungus forays in the forests surrounding Telluride, generally productive of a wide variety of wild mushrooms, particularly edible species, like chanterelles and porcini.

Nationally recognized authorities on mushrooms will present lectures and workshops:

• Dr. Andrew Weil, author of the best-selling book Spontaneous Healing, on Mushrooms and Health
• Gary Lincoff, past President of NAMA, on Wild Mushroom Identification
• Paul Stamets, President of Fungi Perfecti, on Medicinal Mushrooms
• Dr. Emanual Salzman, co-editor of Mushroom Poisoning, on Mushroom Poisoning
• John Corbin, Cultivation Specialist, on Growing Mushrooms on Straw

And others!

For information about registration and fees, check out www.shroomfestival.com or contact:

Fungophile
Attn. Mushroom Festival
Box 480503
Denver, CO 80248-0503

Tel/FAX: 303-296-9359

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