September Speaker | Vellany Pierce: Growing mushrooms at home

Please join us in September for our first Monthly Speaker & Social of the season! Plus, you can bring any fungi you have been lucky enough to find for identification!

As we kick off the 2025-2026 season, we feature our own FFSC Prime Minister, Vellany Pierce, who will talk about growing mushrooms at home.

Would you like to get to know this month's speaker better? Join us for Dinner with the Speaker at 5pm, prior to this event.

About the Speaker

Vellany Pierce is the Prime Minister of the Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz.

She grew up in Santa Cruz County and, always having had an interest in fungi, is a self taught mushroom cultivator who currently works at Far West Fungi, propagating mushroom spawn from cultures grown in petri dishes.  She serves the Fungus Federation as minister of digital media, helps lead local forays, and has taught cultivation classes with the Fungus Federation for many years.  

We look forward to kicking off the season with you!