2023 PSMS Annual Wild Mushroom Show

Our Wild Mushroom Show is one of the largest and most complete exhibits of mushrooms in the United States. Over 200 varieties of wild mushrooms will be displayed, identified, and classified as edible, poisonous, or valueless as food.

Visitors are welcome to bring in mushrooms from your garden or walks for our experts to identify. Be sure to collect the entire mushroom, including underground parts.

Exhibits will include something for all of the senses: A feel and smell display can be experienced after the slide show lecture and finished off by a delicious tasting of mushrooms. There are photography displays as well as a great selection of items for sale like mushroom field guides, cookbooks, t-shirts, and scientific materials for the serious mycologist. Visitors can discover facts about PSMS and obtain information about classes, field trips and other opportunities. Thank you for your interest and for supporting PSMS!

Location and Times

Shoreline Community College

16101 Greenwood Avenue North

Shoreline, WA 98133

Saturday October 28 (12-6pm) and Sunday October 29 (10am-5pm)

 

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Admission fees

Adults $10, Students $5 with ID card, and children under 12 are free.

PSMS Members who are volunteering for the show are able to enter for free.

Mask-wearing is strongly recommended.

 

Speaker Schedule

Saturday October 28, 2023

Time Speaker Title of Lecture
1:00 - 2:00 Noah Siegel An Introduction to the Mushrooms of Cascadia
2:15 - 3:15 Langdon Cook Tales from the Mushroom Trail
3:30 - 4:30 Alison Pouliot Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms
4:45 - 5:45 Daniel Winkler Fruits of the Forest - Fourteen Fantastic Edible Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest
Sunday October 29, 2023

Time Speaker Title of Lecture
11:00 - 12:00 Shannon Adams The Joy of Looking! Mushrooming for Fun, Food, and Scientific Discovery
12:15 - 1:15 Daniel Winkler Fabulous Fungi from West to East: 15 Years of the Best of Mushroaming
1:30 - 2:30 Alison Pouliot Curry Punk & Jelly Brain — The Conservation & Aesthetics of Fungi
2:45 - 3:45 Wren Hudgins Forager's Choice: The 20 Tastiest Wild Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest

Speaker Bios


PSMS Virtual Wild Mushroom Show

Shannon Adams — At work, Shannon leads a team of Ipsos researchers focused on early stage innovation in the tech sector. She is also a citizen scientist focused on Cortinarius in WA State, USA. With assistance from the Puget Sound Mycology Society's Ben Woo grant and the Stuntz Foundation - she will collect and sequence 400 collections throughout the Pacific Northwest Cascade region, from Northern CA to Alaska. Her goal is to contribute to greater understanding of Cortinarius taxonomy, field identification and distribution, through collaboration with experts and amateurs in the field. As an Australian citizen, South African by birth and American by habit, she is interested in the global distribution of species of Cortinarius and has gathered collections in NE USA and New Zealand. She will present a new talk: The Joy of Looking! Mushrooming for Fun, Food, and Scientific Discovery. In the last 20 years mushroom identification and taxonomy has gone through a dramatic change as a result of increasingly widespread use of DNA. Now, a weekend foraging adventure can bring you the joy of a home-cooked mushroom meal and contribute to the realm of scientific research. Whether you've always been curious about mushrooms popping up in your backyard or you're keen to understand how you can contribute to knowledge of mushrooms in our region, Shannon's talk offers an accessible and engaging path to learn more. Bring your curiosity and questions. Together, let's make our observations matter!



PSMS Virtual Wild Mushroom Show

Langdon Cook — Join author Langdon Cook for a "patch-to-plate" tour of his award-winning book, The Mushroom Hunters, which The Wall Street Journal calls "a rollicking narrative...delivering vivid and cinematic scenes on every page." Travel to some of the most famous patches on the continent in search of the most sought-after fungi for the table, meeting the pickers, buyers, and chefs who make this the largest all-cash business in North America (that's legal!). Langdon is a writer, instructor, and lecturer on wild foods and the outdoors. His books include Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table, The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America, winner of the 2014 Pacific Northwest Book Award, and Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager, which The Seattle Times calls "lyrical, practical and quixotic." Cook's work has been nominated for two James Beard Awards, a Society for Environmental Journalists award, and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Seattle.



PSMS Virtual Wild Mushroom Show

Wren Hudgins — Wren joined PSMS in 1978 and was introduced to mushrooming by an informal guiding system the club had at that time. Over the following years that guiding system disappeared until about ten years ago when Wren decided to bring it back. As co-chair of the Field Trip Safety Committee, he created a Forest Navigation class and made that a requirement for training guides. The club now has enough trained guides that we can offer most beginners a guided group experience when they start mushrooming. Beyond field trips, Wren is on the Identification Committee, the Education Committee, helps teach classes, gives outreach presentations to groups outside the club, and sits on the Board of Trustees. For his presentation Forager's Choice: The 20 Tastiest Wild Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest Wren has polled his friends and esteemed colleagues and has asked them what THEY thought were their tastiest mushrooms from the wilds of the Pacific Northwest. Is there consensus among the experts on the best mushrooms? Find out at Wren's presentation!



PSMS Virtual Wild Mushroom Show

Alison Pouliot — Alison is an ecologist with a passion for fungi. She has spent the last two decades following the fungi between Australia and her adopted home near Bern, in Switzerland, studying, photographing and marveling at the fungal hyphae — or mycelium — cycle that governs nutrient and energy flows through ecosystems. Her journeys in search of fungi span the northern and southern hemispheres, ensuring two autumns and a double dose of fungi each year. As a scientist, photographer, author and someone who roams the forest daily, Alison explores fungi through multiple lenses. Alison is the author of The Allure of Fungi and co-author of Wild Mushrooming. Originally a freshwater scientist, Pouliot has long been fascinated by the inter-tidal and productive riparian and semi-riparian ecosystems and their soils, "because that's where the dynamism and the energy is, the reproduction, and that's where your greatest diversity is."

Her first talk is: Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms - Once overlooked in the Anglosphere, fungi are finally having their moment. Mycologists and mushroom seekers have always known their worth but these exhilarating new poster organisms have captured the public imagination. Alison's third book, Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms is a captivating journey into the sensory realms of fungi. It's told through first-hand stories — from the Australian desert to Iceland's glaciers to America's Cascade Mountains — where we encounter glowing ghost fungi and the enigma of the lobster mushroom. The book presents new questions and insights about fungi but is also an intimate celebration of their astonishing beauty and complexity. It melds science and personal reflection to explore overlooked themes, among them — fungi and fire, fungi and climate change, fungi and aesthetics, fungi in ecosystem restoration, and fungi and indigenous wisdom. Join us to hear Alison share stories of her travels across hemispheres in search of fungi and their followers. We'll dwell with fungal allies and aliens, discover how fungi hold forests together, and why humans are deeply intwined with these compelling organisms. What can we learn from the lives of fungi? Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms brings us to our knees, magnifier in hand, to find out.

Alison's second talk is: Curry Punk & Jelly Brain — The Conservation & Aesthetics of Fungi. The earth's rapidly changing climate and environmental issues have come into sharp focus through the demise of charismatic megafauna and the 'biodiversity crisis'. But what about stinkhorns and slime moulds? How do fungi and their kin get our attention when they are not only overshadowed by more 'popular' organisms, but are rarely included in our ideas about 'nature' or 'biodiversity'? She has been actively involved in fungal conservation and land restoration programs. In this talk Alison will explore how fungi are perceived across hemispheres in conservation contexts and which fungal flagships best capture the public imagination. Alison will also some stories from the writing of her recent book, Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms in which she interacted with fungi and their followers across a dozen countries.



PSMS Virtual Wild Mushroom Show

Noah Siegel — Noah's field mycology skills are extensive — he has spent over three decades seeking, photographing, identifying, and furthering his knowledge about all aspects of macrofungi. He has hunted for mushrooms throughout the United States and Canada, as well as on multiple expeditions to New Zealand and Australia and Cameroon. He is one of the premier mushroom photographers in the nation, having won numerous awards from the North American Mycological Association (NAMA) photography contest. His technique and attention to detail are unrivaled, arising from a philosophy of maximizing utility for identification purposes while maintaining a high degree of aesthetic appeal. His photographs have appeared on the covers and have been featured in articles of multiple issues of FUNGI Magazine, the primary mushroom enthusiast magazines in the United States, numerous mushroom books, as well as many club publications. He authored, along with Christian Schwarz, Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast, a Comprehensive Guide to the Fungi of Coastal Northern California and A Field Guide to the Rare Fungi of California's National Forests. He is currently working on Mushrooms of Cascadia, a Comprehensive Guide to Fungi of the Pacific Northwest. Noah travels and lectures extensively across America, following the mushrooms from coast to coast, and everywhere in between. His talk, An Introduction to the Mushrooms of Cascadia, will cover the common, rare, and unusual mushrooms found in our geographic region.



PSMS Virtual Wild Mushroom Show

Daniel Winkler — Daniel is the author of field guides to Edible Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest and California, Amazon Mushrooms and a brand new Field Guide to Medicinal Mushrooms of North America with Robert Rogers. He grew up collecting and eating wild mushrooms in the Alps and has been foraging for over 20 years in the PNW and beyond, sharing his enthusiasm as a mushroom educator and guide and as PSMS vice-president. In his presentations he is combining his stunning photography with an often funny blend of entertaining stories and scientific information he likes to refer to as "edutainment". Having been in love with mushrooms since early childhood, Daniel managed to bend his career as an ecologist and geographer focused on High Asia towards researching rural Tibet's enormous fungal economy. His Cordyceps research has been featured in The Economist, National Geographic, New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, BBC World Service etc. In the last decade Daniel started exploring neotropical fungi. With his travel agency MushRoaming, Daniel is organizing mushroom focused eco-adventures to Tibet, Bhutan, China, the Amazon, Colombia, the Austrian Alps and the Pacific Northwest since 2007 [www.mushroaming.com]

His first talk, Fruits of the Forest - Fourteen Fantastic Edible Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest is a reprise of his well-received and popular presentation last year where he goes into great detail about, presents amazing images, and lists his most sought-after and delectable wild mushrooms in the Pacific Northwest. His second talk, a new one, will be: Fabulous Fungi from West to East, the Best of Mushroaming. This presentation features stunning mushroom images and stories from fifteen years of "Mushroaming", a term Daniel coined for his mushroom themed eco-adventures exploring the fungi of exotic destinations. When traveling in rugged High Asia (Tibet & Bhutan), his native Alps, tropical South America (Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia & Suriname), as well as wild North America, Daniel is on the hunt for gorgeous choice edibles, potent medicinals, and all kinds of bizarre and colorful fungi from the most minute to massive fruitings. His favorite haunts are rain forests, be it tropical or temperate as well as mountain environments ripe with porcini, chanterelles etc.. His favorite fungi (besides all these tasty edibles) are strange Cordyceps, which triggered Daniel's curiosity in medicinal mushrooms 20 years ago in Tibet. Recently this interest matured into a new field guide Medicinal Mushrooms of North America published in cooperation with Robert Rogers.



 

 

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