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2024 Northeast Washington Mushroom Festival

The 2nd annual Northeast Washington Mushroom Festival is a free family-friendly event hosted by the Inland Northwest Permaculture Guild at the Happy Dell Park in Kettle Falls from 9:00am to 8:00pm on Saturday May 11, 2024. This event includes a mushroom foray hunt and contest, mushroom culinary contest, mushroom and fungi identification table, presentations, demonstrations, children's activities, live music, art and costume contests and much more! Contest Registration is open the day of the event from 9:00am – 9:30am or you can pre-register at https://www.sasquatchfamilyreunion.com/new-mushroom-festival.html#/

VENDING/TRADING AVAILABLE FROM 10AM – 8PM:
$25 for 12x12’ space if you register before 4/20/24 or $30 at the time of the event on 5/11. Limited to 50 vendors. Food and drink vendors spots have been filled. Food vendors are responsible for meeting all required food safety requirements. Please pack in and pack out all your personal property and keep products and space family friendly.

CONTEST ENTRY FEES:
The Mushroom Foray and Mushroom Culinary Contest entry fees are both $10 per adult and $5 per child if you register before 5/10/24 or $20 per adult and $10 per child at the time of the event on 5/11.

CONTESTS:
There are 2 competitions for the Mushroom Foray Contest: Mushroom Variety and Morel Mushroom contest which judges in 4 categories: Men, Women, and Children 13 and under. The Grand Prize winner for largest morel wins $100.
Age 14+ Foray and Variety contest winners receive: $50 (1st), $30 (2nd) & $20 (3rd). Children's prizes TBA

The Morel Mushroom contest will judge Height + Width = winner (ie: 4” tall + 3” wide = 7”). Stem is counted but only with no mycelium or roots connected; they must be cut clean. Use ONLY baskets and bags that let spores back into environment.

The Mushroom Variety contest gives a prize to the person who finds the largest quantity of different types of mushrooms during the mushroom foray. Mushrooms in this contest will be displayed for identification during the festival. If the mushrooms cannot be identified, they cannot be entered in the contest. We suggest keeping your mushrooms in a container that will keep them intact during transportation for best identification.

PLEASE NOTE: Anyone (whether in a contest or not) can bring previously harvested mushrooms from near or afar to put on the identification table but they are not added into the contest. We want to see and discuss as many types of fungi as possible. Thank you for making this possible.

The Mushroom Culinary Contest is open for taste-testing from 2:00pm – 4:00pm. (Entry fee $10/$20) Chefs can bring ready dishes or prepare them anytime after 10:00am. All culinary entries must list ingredients for tasters. Please use organic/non-gmo ingredients to accommodate most diets. If you wish to be in both the foray and the culinary contest, please have your dish available for the taste-testing by 2:00pm. Please make small portions for 50+ people to sample and supply your own cups/utensils for taste-testing. Winner receives $50, a culinary basket and free entry for next year’s culinary contest. Participants may bring a helper and is responsible for meeting food safety requirements.
40 taste tester positions are open to the public for $10 per person the day of the event.

Mushroom Art Contest is open to all ages and is open for judging from 2– 4pm. No entry fee. Bring your mushroom art, drawing, photograph, painting, project, etc. Our judges will choose one person to win $20 and free entry to a contest at next year’s mushroom festival.

Mushroom Costume Contest is open to all ages and is open for judging from 2p – 4pm. No entry fee. Dress up as your favorite fungi and our judges will choose one person to win $20 and free entry to a contest at next year’s mushroom festival. ​

SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES ON 5/11/2024:
9:00am - 9:30am - Check-in and Register
9:30 - Mushroom Foray Contest Briefing & Map Hand-out
10:00am – Vending/Trading in Park & Mushroom Foray Hunting Begins
10:30am – 1:30pm – Mushroom Presentations and Children’s Activities (TBA)
2:00 – 4:00pm - Mushroom Identification Table and Discussion, Mushroom Culinary Taste-Testing, Vending/Trading
4:20pm - Contest Winners Announced followed by Mushroom Facts and Information
4:45 - 5:45 - Tyler Hacking Presentation on "Mysteries of the Morchella & Industrial Mycology"
6:00 – 8:00pm - Music, Dancing, Trading/Vending, and Fun for the whole family

Vendors may arrive to set up from 7:30am - 8:30am.
At 9:00am, registration opens for the the contests. At 9:30am, there will be a contest debriefing and review of guidelines for the Mushroom Foray contestants. Maps for the foray hunt will be issued at this time. There are options of walking to places around town or driving to further locations. Mycologists Tyler Hacking and Jason P. Smith will also be leading foray groups if you choose to join either of them. Contestants are encouraged to carpool and can self-assemble this at this time.

At 10:00am, contest participants leave for the mushroom foray hunt and return to the park by 2:00pm to enter their mushrooms into the contest; no exceptions. Any foul play like bringing in mushrooms not picked that day will result in immediate disqualification.

From 10:30am through 1:30pm, there will be three 45-minute presentations from speakers on mushroom topics such as medicinal uses, wild crafting, growing & cultivating from speakers such as Elliot Phillips (Fire & Fungus), Cendy Ortiz (Missy Myco) and Gabriel Gaul (FungiPermastead).
Children’s Activities will also be available for free such as art and games. Volunteers appreciated for activities, face paint & fun. Parents are responsible for children throughout the event and activities.

From 2pm – 4pm, the Mushroom ID Table will be open for public display and discussion with mycologists. Mushroom taste testing will also be open from 2pm – 4pm. Taste testing participation is $10 per person (only 40 tickets available at the time of the event).

At 4:20pm, all contest winners will be announced on the stage followed by mushroom facts and information.

From 4:45pm – 5:45pm, Tyler Hacking with Dr. Gaia will present on his research and experiment with Alan Rockafellar on the "Mysteries of the Morchella & Industrial Mycology" and industrial mycology.

At 6:00pm until the end of the event, Fungilion will be playing live reggae music on stage. Dancing, vending and trading open, and lots of family fun activities are open until 8:00pm.

All participants need to have their items and trash picked up and packed up by 8:30pm.

Please bring your own chairs/blankets, water bottles, umbrellas, and mushrooms. Vendors, please consider a donation for the raffle to raise funds for future events. Drugs and alcohol prohibited.

This event is hosted by the Inland Northwest Permaculture Guild (INPG) and the Northeast Washington Permaculture Guild (NEWPG) in partnership with FungiPermastead, Fungilion, and the Children of Earth Coalition (COEC), BZ Farms, and Boundary Conditions. For questions, call Gabe at (509)738-2087 or email Kelly at childrenofearth@outlook.com.

More information and contest registration is available at http://www.childrenofearthcoalition.com/mushroom-festival.html#/
and www.inlandnorthwestpermaculture.com

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Join us on May 11th in learning and celebrating everything FUNGI! <br /> <br /> The Inland Northwest Permaculture Guild is excited to host the 2nd annual Northeast Washington Mushroom Festival at the Happy Dell Park in Kettle Falls, WA! This event is free and open to the public from 9am - 8pm.<br /> <br /> The mushroom festival features presentations, demonstrations, group or personal-led mushroom foray hunt for contest prizes and identification, a mushroom culinary contest and 40 spots for taste judging, mushroom ID and discussion table, children&#039;s activities, art and costume contests, live music, over 40 vendors and lots of good vibes! <br /> <br /> <br /> This event is hosted by the Inland Northwest Permaculture Guild (INPG) and the Northeast Washington Permaculture Guild (NEWPG) in partnership with the Children of Earth Coalition (COEC), FungiPermastead, Fungilion, and BZ Farms, and Boundary Conditions. For questions, call Gabe at (509)738-2087 or email Kelly at childrenofearth&#064;outlook.com.<br /> <br /> More information and discounted contest pre-registration is available at <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.childrenofearthcoalition.com%2Fmushroom-festival.html%23%2F&amp;h=AT1Ec5SUhQx5z8zHwI2_nrpI0hIz78xgV4vPoBRem2HNbbvX42vToQ9spjDkBMJzIANQY_UbZu697O5xWuZQxulqNTEsH_QieOqcMpxFpaYuvlQW4Tv5hwr8gdWm-euJynwmVur0RpxkNU82sSfJ42s9LOvNMA" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank" data-lynx-mode="asynclazy">http://www.childrenofearthcoalition.com/mushroom-festival.html#/</a>

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