Florida Mushroom Festival
What is so amazing about Mushrooms? This festival will explore all the incredible ways fungi can be used for in agriculture, medicine and shaping our existence. Topics will include mycoremediation, novel antibiotics, psilocybin use and easy ways to incorporate mushrooms into your life. Beginner and advanced concepts will be covered, come and witness the spectacle of mushrooms and how they can shift the current paradigm to harmonize the world we live in. Featured Speaker Dr. John Holliday is an international medicinal mushroom producer and consultant.
Mushroom Contests ~ Best Mushroom in Art, Best Mushroom in Art under 14, Best Mushroom Recipe and Biggest Domestically Raised Mushroom. Submit entries at entry booth before 12:00pm. Winners announced 12:30pm at the stage. Winners donated to the festival.
Mushroom Speakers ~ 9:30-10:30am, 11-12:30 Featured Speaker, 1-2:30, 3-4:30.
Wild Mushroom Identification Walks ~ Led by Brian Wetzel and Phillip Thompson
Mushroom Growing Workshops ~ Shiitake Log Plugging, Oyster and Wine Cap Bag Making
Mushroom Food and Non Alcoholic Drinks ~ Luvin-O-Van, Rolling Dough Wood Fired Pizza, Cool Beans BBQ, Ginger's Sweets, Wizard of Odd Hot Sauce, Cradleboard Creations
Mushroom Artisans ~ Cradleboard Creations, Bubbles Bailey's Soap and Stuff, OGZ Designs, Glitter Goddes Fairy Hair Extensions, Taylor Palmer, Tom Lane, Avery Owens, Mark Haberstroh, Mushy Goddess Creations, The Toad's Throne, Louise Dutton
Mushroom Growing Blocks ~ Mushroom Spawn ~ Mushroom Tinctures ~ Mushrooms Fresh and Dried ~ Williams Family Farm, Mushroom Mountain, Fungi Farm, Alabama Mushroom Society, Northeast Florida Fungi Association, Turtle's Mushrooms, Scott from New Smyrna Beach
Alzhiemer's Association will be on site offering free brain tests.
Storytellers ~ Candy "Likely Story" David and Angie Minno
Nancy Luca Band!
Fantasia Mushroom Dinner 6-8pm, Tickets for Sale $65, $75 at the door.
Learn more at facebook.com/FloridaMushroomFestival
Date: January 11, 2020 9:30 AM-5:00 PM
Location: Ravine Gardens State Park | 1600 Twigg Street, Palatka, FL 32177 | 386-916-0134
Admission:
$2 park entry per pedestrian or $5 carload up to 8 people + $8 festival admission per person includes speakers and all day mushroom activities. Free parking outside of park. Kids under 14 free.
Event website: pmhigh.com
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