Alan Rockefeller News Today

Mycologists Alan Rockefeller and Mandie Quark are on a mission to meticulously document species in Ecuador’s jungle – before they vanish

The second annual Olympic Peninsula Fungi Festival runs from today through Sunday at the Clallam County Fairgrounds, with some events on Sunday at the Dungeness River Nature Center in Sequim.

Southwest Funga Fest, a world-class educational community gathering dedicated to citizen science, regenerative farming and community resilience will be held in a beautiful valley in Velarde, N.M. …

Farming fungus in forests could be a great source of low-carbon protein—and help sequester more carbon in the environment.

VOA Connect Episode 260 - We visit William Padilla-Brown, a self-taught citizen scientist and mycologist whose passion for mushrooms is leading to new discoveries as he teaches others and works to build a healthier, more sustainable world. Director | Producer: Aaron Fedor and Kathleen McLaughlin, DP | Drone: Aaron Fedor, DP: Clint Bolduc, Editor: Kyle Dubiel, Additional Camera: Mike Hiltz,

And a new toxic species in town

The 25th Annual Yuba Watershed Fungus Foray and Wild Mushroom Exposition is scheduled for Dec. 10 and 11 at the North Columbia Schoolhouse Cultural Center
, 17894 Tyler Foote Rd, Nevada City.

Alabama has its share of annual events. There’s the Boll Weevil festival in Enterprise. The town of Opp holds its rattlesnake rodeo every year. And visitors to Gulf Shores can take in the National Shrimp Festival. If fungus is your thing, you can add the Alabama Mushroom Festival to your list. APR graduate student intern Cori Yonge takes us to the inaugural event where fans, both serious and novice, gathered recently to talk all things mushrooms.

We’re currently smack bang in the middle of magic mushroom season in the UK, so we asked the experts how you can hunt for them as safely as possible

In spite of ongoing drought in parts of the state, it was a very wet August in Colorado’s mountains. Heavy rains brought an abundance of wild mushrooms, including some that are new to science. But novel mushroom species are more common than you might think. And a lot of them are found by citizen scientists – amateurs - with a passion for foraging.