Join us for a weekend of mushroom-centric festivities at Weeks Bay Plantation in Fairhope, Alabama and explore the unique, vibrant world of fungi. Our festival celebrates sustainability, local artists and businesses, and eco-friendly practices while bringing together experts, enthusiasts, musicians, foodies, and more-all in one location.

Schedule of Events

October 18, 2024

Speaker Series in the Monet Garden

12:00 pm

Gates open for Vendors

2:00 pm

Gates open for entry

6:15 - 7:45 pm

Tanner Hammond

Flavors and Techniques of Cooking Mushrooms at Home

10:00 pm - till

Commercial Wild Mushrooming Q&A Panel

Workshops and Activities

12:00 pm

Gates open for Vendors

2:00 pm

Gates open for entry

6:00 - 6:15 pm

Introduction and Welcome at the Main Stage

6:45 - 7:45 pm

Cooking Demonstration with Mushroom Man Tan

8:00 - 10:00 pm

Nighttime UV Foray

Meet in the Monet Garden

Music Lineup at the Main Stage

12:00 pm

Gates open for Vendors

2:00 pm

Gates open for entry

6:00 - 7:15 pm

Danny Dennis

7:30 - 8:15 pm

Paid to Pretend

8:30 - 9:15 pm

Cavae Mundi

9:30 - 11:00 pm

Josh Zook

11:00 - till

Walter Ego

October 19, 2024

Speaker Series in the Monet Garden

9:00 - 9:50 am

Bridgett Childers

FUNGI: The 8th Wonder of the World

10:00 - 10:50 am

Dr. Juan Luis Mata

Mushrooms from Coastal Alabama: Taxonomy and Ecology

11:00 - 11:50 am

Allen Carroll

The Fundamentals of Mushroom Cultivation, From Backyard to Farm

1:00 - 1:50 pm

Southern Chili Lab

Introduction to Lacto-fermentation

2:00 - 2:50 pm

Kitti Cooper

Organic Gardening on the Gulf Coast

3:00 - 3:50 pm

Sam Blackstone

Medicinal Mushrooms 101: Researched Benefits and Separating Quality from Snake Oil

4:00 - 4:50 pm

Mark Hainds

Outdoor Mushroom Production

5:00 pm - 5:50 pm

Natasha Freeman

Folk tinctures and medicinal herbs of the Gulf Coast

6:00 - 6:50 pm

Melissa Nichols

Let's talk herbal preparation and preservation methods

8:00 - 8:50 pm

Mushroom Cultivation Q&A Panel

Workshops and Activities

8:00 - 9:15 am

Yoga with Ashley Jones at the Main Stage

10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Kid's Mushroom Craft Corner in the Vendor Village at Cooper Farm

12:00 - 3:00 pm

Daytime Foray

Meet in the Monet Garden

7:00 - 8:00 pm

Cooking Demo with Shaun Thompson in the Monet Garden

8:00 - 10:00 pm

Nighttime UV Foray

Meet in the Monet Garden

Music Lineup at the Main Stage

2:00 - 2:45 pm

Hot Lemon

3:00 - 3:45 pm

No Complications

4:00 - 4:45 pm

Cittàgazze

5:00 - 5:45 pm

Surfwax

6:00 - 6:45 pm

Goodwin Rainer

7:00 - 11:00 pm

Grits and Greens

11:00 pm - till

Walter Ego

October 20, 2024

Speaker Series in the Monet Garden

10:00 - 10:50 am

TBA

11:00 - 11:50 am

Taylor Hayes

Navigating the Psychedelic Landscape

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Psilocybin Q&A Panel

1:00 pm

TBA

Workshops and Activities

8:00 - 9:15 am

Yoga with Rhena Baxter at the Main Stage

9:00 - 10:00 am

Mushroom Log Inoculation Workshop in the Monet Garden

10:00 am

Best Costume and Hat Contest Winners announced at the Main Stage

2:00 pm

Closing Remarks at the Main Stage

Music Lineup at the Main Stage

9:45 - 11:45 am

Webster's Wheel

12:00 - 2:00 pm

Swamp Water Symphony

Date:
October 18-20, 2024

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