Invite your mushroom peeps to the festival! Download and share the festival flyer with your friend, family and co-workers. You know they are going to love the fungi festival!
Two Mushroom Forays Saturday Aug 24th
Mycologist Gary Laursen will be leading two 3-hour mushroom foray this Saturday as a fund raiser for the Fairbanks Fungi Festival. A donation of $10 is suggested. Cash is best as Dr Laren does not do venmo. RSVP and let us know which foray you plan to attendl
Saturday morning foray: 9 am --noon at UAF ski trail, meeting at the ski hut;
Saturday afternoon foray: 1-4 pm at Birch Hill ski trails meeting in parking lot.
Rain or Shine, Dr. Laursen will be there
Most of the fungi collected will used for the fungi festival education tables
Sorry no dogs allowed
RSVP: https://bit.ly/FFF_Foray082424
Fairbanks Fungi Festival 2024
Sunday, August 25th
Festival Schedule
11 am - Welcome- Dene' Eslaanh Performers
11:15 am - Children's Mushroom Foray
12 pm - Mushroom Identification Talk with Christin Swearingen
1 pm - Costume Contest
2 pm - Mushroom Cultivation Workshop
3 pm - Live Music
4 pm - Fairbanks Ladies of Wrestling Show
Ongoing Events
The Festival Information booth has T-shirts and Stickers!
Mushroom Crafts For Kids!
Displays of Local Mushroom Specimens, all identified approved by mycologists!
Over 30 Mushroom Art and Crafts Vendor Booths!
Food Trucks!
Information Booths: Interior Alaska Land Trust, Folk School, Northern Alaska Environmental Center and Fireweed Collective, Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition FCAC.
Would you like to Volunteer?
We need help with setting up, children crafts, sorting mushrooms, and helping experts tag fungi for the UAF collection.
Volunteer with this form
Donate Today!
The Fairbanks Fungi Festival is run with volunteer effort. Your donations allow us to bring experts to Fairbanks, purchase supplies for children activities, and pay for the venue rental. You can support FFF by donating online, @chagacoop
Fairbanks has its very own Fungi Festival!
Free, open to the public, non- smoking and family friendly.
Why we are so crazy about fungi that we have Fairbanks Fungi Festival?
Did you know there are more species of fungi than plants and animals combined? So far scientists have documented about 150,000 species out of a possible 2-4 million species. Fungi can help humanity and the environment in so many ways. We eat and drink fungi! Fungi is used make yeast breads, blue cheese, soy sauce, cider, beer and wine. Fungi are used in medicine (i.e. mycophenolate, used to prevent tissue rejection, and rosuvastatin, which reduces cholesterol), and new compounds are being discovered all the time. Fungi have the potential to clean up oil spills, purify watersheds, and metabolize radiation! Now that's eco-friendly! Fungi are also a potent solution to food security issues. They are one of the cheapest, yet most nutritious forms of protein on the planet, can be cultivated ethically, and with very little impact on the environment. Fungi can turn local waste products into building materials and other materials, providing eco-friendly, insulative, and fire resistant products.
We are comprised of the local folks of Fairbanks that love everything fungi! We welcome fungi fans to join the festival team!
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