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Telluride Mushroom Festival

The nation's oldest mycological conference exploring all things fungal
Mushroom Festival Poster 2009

August 27th - 30th Elks Park and the Galaxy Theatre


Ron Mann's new film features the Telluride Mushroom Festival!
Click here for Ron Mann's site and here for   A review of the film on The Star

29th Annual
Telluride Mushroom Festival
AUGUST 27th  - 30th
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A three-day intensive with workshops, slide-shows, films and lectures in Colorado's summer festival mecca with daily forays into the surrounding mushroom fields of the San Juan Mountains for hunting and gathering. Saturday's late afternoon parade down Telluride's Mushroom Parade down main street is the apogee of this 29th annual event.


Gary Lincoff, world renowned mycologist and featured lecturer this year, is the author of  many field guides and the newly-released,  "Mushroom Magick" launched in April 2009.

Mushroom MagickGary Lincoff's new book hit the shelves April 1st, 2009.  He is a world renowned mycologist and is the author of the Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms
Mushroom Guide by Lincoff
The Telluride Mushroom Festival is very excited to have Gary Lincoff return with his new book as our featured lecturer and guide.  





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