FFSC News & Stories

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We're pleased to announce the schedule for our expert speakers at the 2025 Santa Cruz Fungus Fair! Talks by popular speakers often sell out or fill up quickly! If sessions interest you, we suggest you carefully study the schedule of talks and demonstrations when they become available (usually around November), so that you can plan which days you'd like to attend.

Time lapse of chicken-of-the-woods growing over 11 days

Phil Carpenter, FFSC Science Advisor, has been awarded the 2023 Harry and Elsie Knighton Service Award by the North American Mycological Association (NAMA) !

Haiku is a Japanese poetry form. Here are haikus celebrating "the secret life of fungi."

I was fortunate to be able to attend the annual North American Mycological Association (NAMA) foray that was held at a beautiful YMCA camp just outside of Granby, Colorado from August 12th through the 15th. This camp is located in the traditional summer residential valley of several native American tribes, the Utes, Arapahoe, and Cheyenne among others.