Mushroom Festival

It is estimated that there are a million and a half species of fungi - with about 90 percent remaining undocumented. The number of mycophiles? Countless. One of those amanita hat-wearing, mold- and spore-worshipping mycelium fanatics is photographer Lisa Barlow, who shares the following wrap-up...

The Telluride Mushroom Festival (TMF)  is back for the 43rd year in a row. In just a few weeks from now, the Town of Telluride will be taken over by amanita hat-wearing, mold- and spore-worshipping mycelium fanatics. Go here for the 2023 official Telluride Mushroom Festival schedule. Sorry,...

Since 1981, fungophiles of all sorts have come to our mining-camp-turned-resort-mecca to talk about identification, growing methods, medicinal uses, forest remediation, drug scapegoating, culinary recipes, biological theory, entheogenic practice, and the way of the psychonaut. The Telluride Mushroom Festival just completed its 42nd year celebrating all...