2025 Activities

A variety of fun and educational activities will be available throughout the weekend, including presentations, workshops, identification walks/forays, and edible mushroom tastings!

Your Tickets allow you to take part in one or many of the awesome events we're presenting including wild foray walks, access to a variety of workshops and an evening of presentations on the fascinating world of fungi on Saturday night.

Be sure to specify which events you prefer when registering.

Note: All workshop content and foray locations are subject to change right up until the weekend. While we will try our hardest to ensure that they do not change, sickness and suitability of site location can change on the fly.

Tickets available soon!

Workshops

We will be offering workshops of the following topics:

How to Describe Mushroom Features
An Introduction to Mushrooms
Top 10 Northern BC Edible Mushrooms and Fungi
How to Use iNaturalist (a non-profit social network of naturalists, citizen scientists, and biologists built on the concept of mapping and sharing observations of biodiversity across the globe)
Field trip safety and forest etiquette
Mushrooms, Climate change and “Burn Morels”
All Mushrooms are Medicinal
Building your own mushroom bed

Walks/Forays

We will be leading identification and foraging walks/forays throughout the weekend, with many options available:

*Please note that the location of the forays are subject to change at any point. We try to find the most diverse areas to forage and may have to change plans on the fly.

Early Bird Friday Foray (9am - 4pm West Twin)

This keener mushroom identification foray will start at West Twin Park at 9am and last till about 3pm. After a day of foraging,

we will make our way back to the School for normal registration.

Saturday Foray 1 ( 9am - 12pm Horsey Creek)

This 3 hour mushroom identification foray will start at the School and will take place at Horsey Creek.

Saturday Foray 2 ( 9am - 12pm Winkler Farm)

This 3 hour mushroom identification foray will start at the School and will take place at Winkler farm.

Saturday Foray 3 (1pm - 4pm Mount Robson)

This 3 hour mushroom identification foray will start at the School and will take place at Mount Robson.

Saturday Foray 4 (1pm - 4pm Jackman Flats)

This 3 hour mushroom identification foray will start at the School and will take place at Jackman Flats.

Sunday Foray 1 (9am - 12pm Hidden Lake)

This 3 hour mushroom identification foray will start at the School and will take place at Hidden Lake.

Sunday Foray 2 (9am - 12pm Pepper Pit)

This 3 hour mushroom identification foray will start at the School and will take place at Pepper Pit.

Sunday Foray 3 (1pm - 4pm Belle Mountain)

This 3 hour mushroom identification foray will start at the School and will take place at Belle Mountain.

Sunday Foray 4 (1pm - 4pm Lower Rauch)

This 3 hour mushroom identification foray will start at the School and will take place at Lower Rouch.

Gala Dinner

On Saturday evening, we will be hosting a delicious mushroom-themed gala dinner provided by Silvia Morrison and Teresa DeReis.

Tickets are $25.00 and must be purchased in advance on our Tickets Page.

Vendors

There will be a variety of local artisans and vendors for you to browse, including:

Mushroom grow kits
Tinctures
Soaps
Fresh and dried mushrooms
T shirts, hats, bags
A variety of mushroom-themed art and jewelry

Local Attractions

While in the area, be sure to check out our local attractions.

Check out the Dunster General Store, where you can get everything from mouse traps to a glue gun, chicken feed, locally-grown organic garlic, local pottery and more!

While in the area, be sure to check out our local attractions.

Also, be sure to check out the Dunster Train Station Museum contains lots of community history and there is a great group of folks running it.