Sunday, October 12th, is the day of the second annual Washington Mushroom Fair at the Brookside Gardens Visitors Center, on the North side of Wheaton Regional Park. Last year, over 900 people attended, and 30 joined MAW! We need you
to foray for mushrooms for our display tables during the week before the Fair (October 6-11). Bring nice specimins to the Visitors Center on Saturday October 11th after 4:00 pm. We also need people to help set up the displays and other fixtures before the fair opens at noon on Sunday, and to clean up afterwords from 5:00 -6:00 pm the same day. We also need folks to assist with mushroom displays, cooking (and kitchen cleanup), staffing the membership table, and just talking to new people about MAW and mushrooms. Questions? ....call Gordon Callahan (202-547-0153), or contact Paul Goland at hardscrabble@mountain.net. 2002 Mushroom Fair
On Sunday, August 18th, 2002, the Mycological Association of Washington held its first ever Mushroom Fair at the Visitors Center of Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, MD. Over 790 people visited the exhibits, which ran the gamut from displays of wild mushrooms to displays of mushroom collectables, and from cooking demonstrations to mushroom cultavation demonstrations. The wild mushroom display tables featured 117 species of fungi (see list) that were collected in the “extended” Washington DC area in the days just prior to the Fair. This was a surprisingly good turnout on the part of our fungal friends, given the almost total lack of rain in the area for weeks before the Fair! Below are a few images of the festivities. |
The calm before the storm: guest mycologist Walt Sturgeon identifying specimens before the Fair | | The Fair! |
Kurt with the display of what the well dressed mushroom forayer is wearing this season |  
Waldemar Poppe explains home mushroom cultivation
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Walt Sturgeon (above) and Henry Shaw (below) at the mushroom display tables
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The mushroom display tables. Not a bad collection for a drought year! |
Kim Plishke explains the use of mushrooms as dyes for wool |
Marina Hsieh (above) and Dan DeSouza (below) cook up a storm at the cooking demonstration table
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Ilona Conolly and Norm Bernhardt (and visitors) at the entrance table |
Bruce Boyer (above) and Jon Ellifritz (below) at the mushroom ID table |
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