2015 Telluride Mushroom Festival Programming

P RO G R A M D E S I G N BY C O P R I N O I D.C O M

35th Annual Telluride Mushroom Festival August 13-16, 2015

Welcome

to the

35th Annual Telluride Mushroom Festival!

Since 1981 the Telluride Mushroom Festival has focused on all things fungi and featured speakers from a variety of fields, such as culinary, medicinal, entheogenic, and more recently, mycoremediation. This year, the theme for the festival is “The Future of Fungi.” Through lectures, guided forays, workshops, and demonstrations, we hope to convey the message that mushrooms have the potential to revolutionize our relationship with the world and ourselves.

We hope you leave the festival feeling energized and excited about the future of fungi. the telluride mushroom festival is a program of the telluride institute, a

501 (c)3

organization,

the telluride mushroom festival brings the best programming and presenters to telluride to educate

and inform the public about the kingdom of fungi. we couldn’t do it without your help. making a donation to the telluride mushroom festival today, or by becoming one of our sponsors, you help us maintain a tradition and outreach that brings the fascinating mycological world closer to home while offering you an excellent line-up of professionals and presenters from a wide

variety of educational philosophies, and educational programs for people of all ages. make your tax deductible donation today on our website!

www.telluridemushroomfest.org or mail your donation to:

Telluride Institute 210 Fat Alley PO Box 1770 Telluride, CO 81435 Please note “mushroom” on your donation.

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www.facebook.com/groups/shroomfest Twitter: www.twitter.com/shroomfest THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE TELLURIDE MUSHROOM FESTIVAL!

Thank you to our wonderful sponsors, supporters and vendors this year!

The Telluride Institute | MAPS | CCASE | Telluride Brewing Company

Sheridan Opera House | Delilah | Wilkinson Public Library | The Rogue Creative

additional partners/sponsors: InCredible Prints! | Mushroom Mountain | La Marmotte

Safer Brand |

Alphay International |

| The Blue Chanterelle

| Norwood Farmers Market

vendors Thank you to our amazing vendors this year. You can find their booths in the Gallery of the Sheridan Opera house or at the Oak Street Mall.

Female and Fungi | Between the Covers | Ecovative | Radical Mycology

Paititi Institute | Hunt and Gather llc | Turtle Lake Refuge | Dan Humphrey Art

Sound Therapy | FUNGI | JJ Pots | Just Mushroom Stuff | InJoyCha

This year’s festival director is Maggie Klinedinst, a research manager at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit. Maggie presented at the festival in 2013 and 2014 on the psilocybin research being conducted at her lab.

Maggie’s enthusiasm for mushrooms stemmed from her experience at the Telluride Mushroom Festival, where she attended lectures, went on forays, and learned about all things fungi from the most passionate and knowledgeable mycophiles around. To be asked to direct the festival was an incredible honor that she could not turn down.

Outside of the office, she enjoys hiking, volunteering in Baltimore, cooking, binge watching trashy television and spending time with her partner Marc, her amazing group of friends, her supportive family and her two cats. She will be starting her MBA at Johns Hopkins University this fall and hopes to work for a philanthropic organization dedicated to psychedelic research and the betterment of society.

Director’s

Choice

Not To Miss Special Events:

Mushroom Cookoff!

Friday August 14, 2015 12:00pm - 3:00pm The cookoff is one of the most exciting events of the festival. Chefs compete for best mushroom dish and festival attendees are able to sample all of the dishes. Last year’s winner was a Chanterelle Custard Tart. All attendees of the Telluride Mushroom Festival get a ticket to the Cookoff with their full festival pass. Members of the public can also acquire Cookoff tickets for only a suggested $10 donation, while supplies last. The cookoff will be open to the public at 1:30.

Mushroom Forays Mushroom forays are led daily by experts including Gary Lincoff, Lawrence Millman, Katrina Blair, Bill & Will Adams and many more.

Sign-ups for forays are at the Sheridan Opera House. Some foray locations are in town while others require a vehicle. Forays are rated for difficulty based on length and terrain. Please wear appropriate footwear for hiking and recognize your physical capabilities and choose forays that match those---you’ll have a lot more fun if you are able to fully participate.

Mushroom Poetry Corner Chamber Mushroom Music Chanterelles simmer in a pan of butter, garlic diced pinyons I stand by the stove Chef Conductor Remembering the Mozart of her morning strings sizzling beneath me & the hot sighs of our mingled oils

~ Art Goodtimes

Bookmark the schedule on your phone by visiting: http://2015telluridemushroomfestival.sched.org/mobile The mobile web app stores the schedule data locally on your phone for offline access too!

Thursday August 13th -­‐ Sheridan Opera House 8:30 AM -­‐ 9:00 AM 9:00 AM -­‐ 9:45 AM 10:00 AM -­‐ 11:00 AM 11:30 AM -­‐ 12:30 PM 1:45 PM -­‐ 2:45 PM 3:00 PM -­‐ 4:00 PM 4:15 PM -­‐ 5:15 PM 7:45 PM -­‐ 8:45 PM

Registration Opening Ceremony: Gary Lincoff, Art Goodtimes Mycopsychedelia: The Healing Mushrooms: Britt Bunyard 15 Years of Guiding Legal Psilocybin Sessions: A Clinician's Story: Mary Cosimano Fungal Conservation: Political Action for the Future of Fungi: Giuliana Furci Explore and Celebrate the Glorious Diversity of Mushrooms in the Southern Rocky Mountain Region: Vera Evenson Fungi Can Kill You: Jonathan Reisman Our Fungi / Ourselves: Gary Lincoff

Thursday August 13th -­‐ Elks Lodge 10:00 AM -­‐ 11:00 AM 10:00 AM -­‐ 11:00 AM 11:30 AM -­‐ 12:30 PM 1:15 PM -­‐ 2:15 PM 2:30 PM -­‐ 3:30 PM 2:30 PM -­‐ 3:30 PM 4:15 PM -­‐ 5:15 PM 9:00 PM -­‐ 11:00 PM

Tissue Culture I: Agar & Basics Introduction to Truffle Dog Training: Chris Ricci (w.

Daisy) Mycorrhizal Mushrooms are Remediators: Peter McCoy Mushrooms for Health: Ron Spinosa Tissue Culture II: Spores, Cloning, Collection Shrooming off Grid: Tradd Cotter Mushroom Marketing for Small Scale Producers: Mark Jones Art Goodtimes' Talking Gourds Poetry Performance and Party

Thursday August 13th -­‐ Special Events 2:00 PM -­‐ 4:00 PM 5:00 PM -­‐ 7:00 PM

Mushroom ID and Cooking in Elks Park Gourmet Dinner at La Marmotte with Special Guests Eugenia Bone & Gary Lincoff

Friday August 14th -­‐ Sheridan Opera House 9:00 AM -­‐ 9:30 AM 10:00 AM -­‐ 11:00 AM

11:15 AM -­‐ 12:15 PM

1:45 PM -­‐ 2:45 PM 3:00 PM -­‐ 4:30 PM 7:15 PM -­‐ 8:15 PM 9:00 PM -­‐ 11:00 PM 10:45 PM -­‐ 11:45 PM

Introduction to Colorado's Choice Edibles: Graham Steinruck Underground connection: Mushrooms and Pines in Peril: Cathy Cripps The light and the dark, and the brain in-­‐between: Mystical and challenging experiences, and changes in the brain, encountered with psilocybin: Fred Barrett Chaga: Nature’s Black Gold, A Renewable Medicinal Mushroom: Britt Bunyard Psilocybin Panel: Past, Present, Future: Eugenia Bone, Fred Barrett, Gay Dillingham, Mary Cosimano, Art Goodtimes Mycophiles: Festivals, Forays, and the Companionship of Mushroomers: Eugenia Bone Movie -­‐ Dying to Know: Ram Dass and Timothy Leary Entheogenic Gourd Circle: Psilocybin: Art Goodtimes (meet outside Sheridan)

Friday August 14th -­‐ Elks Park 10:00 AM -­‐ 11:00 AM 2:00 PM -­‐ 4:00 PM

Log and Stump Cultivation Demo Mushroom ID and Cooking

Friday August 14th -­‐ Elks Lodge 10:00 AM -­‐ 11:00 AM 10:15 AM -­‐ 11:15 AM 11:30 AM -­‐ 12:30 PM 11:30 AM -­‐ 12:30 PM 2:30 PM -­‐ 3:30 PM 4:00 PM -­‐ 5:00 PM 4:00 PM -­‐ 5:00 PM

Grow-­‐It-­‐Yourself (GIY) Kits Workshop: Sue Van Hook Cultivating Woodland Mushrooms: Mark Jones How to be a good student to the Mushroom: Nicholas Giagnoni Grow-­‐It-­‐Yourself (GIY) Kits Workshop: Sue Van Hook Lessons from the Amazon Mycorenewal Project -­‐-­‐ How to apply Mycoremediation methods around the world: Daniel Reyes Tissue Culture III: Spawn Generation and Advanced Techniques Low-­‐Tech Oyster Mushroom Cultivation at Home: TP and Kitty Litter: Ron Spinosa

Friday August 14th -­‐ Special Events 12:00 PM -­‐ 3:00 PM 5:00 PM -­‐ 7:00 PM

Mushroom Cookoff in Gondola Lot Wild Foods Dinner in Town Park

Saturday August 15th -­‐ Sheridan Opera House 9:00 AM -­‐ 9:45 AM 10:00 AM -­‐ 11:00 AM 10:30 AM -­‐ 11:30 AM 11:15 AM -­‐ 12:15 PM 1:30 PM -­‐ 2:30 PM 2:45 PM -­‐ 3:45 PM 7:00 PM -­‐ 7:15 PM 7:30 PM -­‐ 9:00 PM 9:00 PM -­‐ 10:30 PM

Wild Foods Lecture and Foray: Katrina Blair Mycotopia -­‐ Visions and Blueprints from the Future Mushroom Culture: Tradd Cotter Entheogenic Gourd Circle: Cannabis: Art Goodtimes (meet outside Sheridan) How to Get Rid of Evil Spirits: Lawrence Millman Oh look, I have an Amanita, what do I do now?: Jay Justice Colombia's Mushroom Magic: Daniel Winkler FUNGI Magazine Costume Winners ANNOUNCED! Mushroom Mycelium as Natural Resin: Sue Van Hook Movie -­‐ The Creeping Garden

Saturday August 15th -­‐ Elks Park 11:30 AM -­‐ 12:30 PM 1:00 PM -­‐ 2:45 PM 2:00 PM -­‐ 4:00 PM 4:00 PM -­‐ 6:30 PM

Eat Your Weeds! : Permaculture with Fungi & Alternative Substrate Demo: Kris Holstrom, Mark Jones LET IT ROT: Mycorecycling Scavenger Hunt -­‐ Coffee, Cardboard, and Paper Mushroom ID and Cooking PARADE + DRUMMING + DANCING

Saturday August 15th -­‐ Elks Lodge 8:00 AM -­‐ 9:00 AM 1:00 PM -­‐ 2:15 PM 2:30 PM -­‐ 3:30 PM 9:00 PM -­‐ 11:00 PM

Mycoremediation Potential in Telluride and Nearby Sites Mycoremediation of Contaminated Soil and Water: Tradd Cotter, Sam Muller DIY Mushroom Cigarette Digesters: Peter McCoy Mushroom Lounge -­‐ Open Mic and After Party

Bookmark the schedule on your phone by visiting: http://2015telluridemushroomfestival.sched.org/mobile The mobile web app stores the schedule data locally on your phone for offline access too!

Sunday August 16th -­‐ Sheridan Opera House 10:00 AM -­‐ 11:30 AM 12:00 PM -­‐ 1:00 PM

The Future of Fungi -­‐ Panel Discussion: Eugenia Bone, Fred Barrett, Gary Lincoff, Giuliana Furci, Lawrence Millman, Peter McCoy, Sue Van Hook, Tradd Cotter Closing Ceremonies

Monday August 17th -­‐ Sheridan Opera House 10:00 AM -­‐ 1:00 PM

Late Bird Foray with Lawrence Millman

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BIOS : Who’s who in the fungal kingdom?

Gary Lincoff teaches mushroom identification and plant science courses year round at the New York Botanical Garden. Gary attends as many forays and gives as many lectures as his teaching schedule permits. Each weekend of the year that he’s home (NYC), even over winter, he is conducting a mushroom survey in the parks of New York City with the New York Mycological Society.

Much of what they are doing is available on his website: GaryLincoff.com.

Among many other publications, Gary has written the Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms, The Complete Mushroom Hunter, and The Joy of Foraging. He has co-led mushroom study tours to over 30 countries on every continent, except Antarctica. He is one of the co-founders of the Telluride Mushroom Festival, and has attended every annual foray since its inception in 1981.

Sue Van Hook is a mycologist, naturalist, teacher and healer. She has been studying the taxonomy and ecology of fungi for the past 40 years, having begun her coursework in the Pacific Northwest where the mushroom season lasts 9 months of the year. Sue completed her undergraduate and graduate degrees in botany and mycology at Humboldt State University under the tutelage of Dr. David L. Largent, an authority on pink spored mushrooms and author of the How to Identify Mushrooms series of books. Sue worked for 5 years in land conservation for The Nature Conservancy managing a Northern California Coastal Dunes Preserve where she also conducted her graduate fieldwork. She moved to Belgrade Maine in the mid-eighties and worked as Director of Land Conservation and Stewardship for Maine Coast Heritage Trust. For 18 years she taught biology and environmental science labs at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY and currently works as the Chief Mycologist for a new Green Tech company, Ecovative Design in Troy, NY.

Eugenia Bone is a nationally known food journalist and author. Her work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers, including Saveur, Food & Wine, Gourmet, Martha Stewart Living, Sunset, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Denver Post. She is the author of five books. “At Mesa’s Edge” was a finalist for a Colorado Book Award. She wrote “Italian Family Dining” with her father, celebrated chef Edward Giobbi. “Well Preserved” was a finalist for a James Beard award, and was on many best cookbooks of 2009 lists.

“Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms”, was on Amazon’s best science books of 2011 list and a finalist for a Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries award. Her fifth book, “The Kitchen Ecosystem” (October, 2014) was a finalist for a Books for a Better Life award, and was on many best cookbooks of 2014 lists. Her writing and recipes have been anthologized in numerous publications, including Best Food Writing, Saveur Cooks, and The Food & Wine Cookbook.

Eugenia has lectured widely, in venues like the Denver Botanical Garden and the New York Pubic Library, judged food and wine competitions, and has appeared on television and radio many times. She is the founder of Slow Food Western Slope in Colorado and the president of the New York Mycological Society. She writes the blog, kitchenecosystem.com.

Eugenia lives in New York City and Western Colorado.

Contact Eugenia through her website: eugeniabone.com

Frederick Barrett, PhD is a cognitive neuroscientist in the Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He conducted research on the neural basis of music cognition and music-evoked emotions, including music-evoked spiritual experiences, at the University of California, Davis, where he completed his PhD. He is an investigator on the psilocybin research team at Hopkins, where he is involved in studies of subjective effects with classic hallucinogens, including both challenging experiences “bad trips” and mystical experiences. He is currently leading a brain imaging investigation of the intersection between long term meditative practice and mystical experiences with psilocybin. Fred is also deeply interested in emotional and transcendent experiences with music in the psychedelic state.

Katrina Blair began studying wild plants in her teens when she camped out alone for a summer with the intention of eating primarily wild foods. She later wrote “The Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants of the San Juan Mountains” for her senior project at Colorado College.

In 1997, she completed an MA at John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, CA in Holistic Health Education. She founded Turtle Lake Refuge in 1998, a nonprofit organization, whose mission is to celebrate the connection between personal health and wild lands. She teaches sustainable living practices and wild edible and medicinal plant classes regionally and internationally. In 2009, She published a book titled “Local Wild Life Turtle Lake Refuge’s Recipes for Living Deep”, a book that focuses on the uses and recipes of the local wild abundance and her latest book is called “The Wild Wisdom of Weeds: 13 Plants for Human Survival“ published by Chelsea Green Publishing.

Britt Bunyard, PhD is the founder, Publisher, and Editor in Chief of the mycology journal Fungi which has the largest circulation of any mycological publication in North America. He also has worked as a full time Biology professor in Ohio and Wisconsin, teaching a broad range of undergraduate and graduate courses in Evolution, Microbiology, Mycology, Invertebrate Zoology, Biochemistry and Environmental Science. The main focus of Britt’s research interests has centered on the co-evolution of macrofungi and Diptera, the true flies. Bunyard has co-authored (2012) the recent book Mushrooms and Macrofungi of Ohio and Midwestern States: A Resource Handbook. Published by The Ohio State University Press. Other scholarly achievements include publication of scientific papers in 16 different international research journals, two book chapters, one patent, articles in popular science magazines, and one full-length book of travel essays from living in Southeast Asia. Britt has served as Editor-in-Chief of NAMA’s journal McIlvainea and newsletter The Mycophile, and as a Subject Editor for the Entomological Society of America’s journal Annals of the Entomological Society of America. Britt gives several invited lectures in North America and abroad each year and regularly takes part in many mycological events and forays. He is married and has three children, plus assorted livestock roaming around the farm.

Tradd Cotter is a microbiologist, professional mycologist, author and organic gardener, who has been tissue culturing, collecting native fungi in the Southeast, and cultivating both commercially and experimentally for more than twenty-two years. In 1996, he founded Mushroom Mountain, which he owns and operates with his wife, Olga, to explore applications for mushrooms in various industries and currently maintains over 200 species of fungi for food production, mycoremediation of environmental pollutants, and natural alternatives to chemical pesticides. His primary interest is in low-tech and no-tech cultivation strategies so that anyone can grow mushrooms on just about anything, anywhere in the world. Mushroom Mountain is currently expanding to 42,000 square feet of laboratory and research space near Greenville, South Carolina, to accommodate commercial production, as well as mycoremediation projects. Tradd, Olga, and their daughter, Heidi, live in Liberty, South Carolina.

Cathy Cripps, PhD has collected mushrooms in the Rocky Mountains for over 40 years, first as an amateur when she lived in a small cabin near Crested Butte, Colorado and later as a professor at Montana State University doing research.

She claims to have been ‘found’ in 1980 by an eclectic group of traveling mycologists (led by the Salzmans) who held the precursor to the Telluride Mushroom Festival in Gothic, Colorado, right over the mountain from her cabin. Cathy basically ‘grew up’ (well, sort of) at the first Telluride Festivals as recorder. She left her mountain hideaway in 1989 to study with well-known mycologist Orson K. Miller, Jr. at Virginia Tech and is now happily ensconced at MSU, where she teaches Mycology and does research on the mycorrhizal fungi that help woody plants survive. Cathy is currently using these symbiotic fungi in the restoration of white bark pine and will reveal the deep ecology of these unique forests at Telluride.

Her work on Arctic-alpine fungi has taken her to Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, Norway, Finland, and Alaska. She has authored numerous scientific papers and two books, did several stints as chief mycologist for NAMA, and received their award for “Contributions to Amateur Mycology” in 2012. Her love and enthusiasm for the Rocky Mountains and all of its fungal creatures runs deep.

Mary Cosimano, MSW is currently with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and has served as study guide and research coordinator for the psilocybin studies for 15 years. During that time she has served as a session guide for the six psilocybin studies, has conducted over 325 sessions and has participated in more than 1,000 preparatory and integration meetings.

She worked as a clinician teaching individual and group meditation to breast cancer patients in research at Johns Hopkins, as a behavior modification counselor for weight loss, a school guidance counselor, and has 15 years of experience with direct patient care as a hospice volunteer. Ms. Cosimano has been extensively involved in all six psilocybin studies, as well as Salvia divinorum and dextromethorphan studies conducted at Johns Hopkins. Her talk will be based on the her article: “Love: The Nature of our True Self: My Experience as a Guide in the Johns Hopkins Psilocybin Research Project.”

Gay Dillingham started making documentary films out of college in the late 80s. Her first, The WIP Trail, narrated

by Robert Redford, cast a critical eye at our nation’s first and still world’s only underground nuclear waste repository. It became a community organizing tool and aired on PBS nationally followed by a panel discussion. Her company co-produced Dr. Andrew Weil’s first PBS programs in the mid 90s. Gay then co-founded and managed two environmental technology companies: Earthstone International and Growstone. Today, she is again concentrating her passion to inform and enlighten through her film company CNS Communications, LLC. The project, Dying to Know has been a labor of love she has cultivated on and off for 17 years; footage so compelling is was haunting her to finish. She is grateful to be back to her life’s passion making films & telling meaningful stories.

Vera Stucky Evenson is curator of the Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi at Denver Botanic Gardens. She collects and studies thousands of specimens and photographs of native mushrooms in many ecosystems, including those that grow in city environments. She is a past president of the Colorado Mycological Society. In 2008, Vera received the North American Mycological Association’s award for contributions to amateur mycology in honor of her three decades of dedication and expertise in the field.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in botany and bacteriology and a master’s degree in microbiology.

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Art Goodtimes is an American poet, farmer and politician in Colorado.

Goodtimes was first elected to the San Miguel County Board of Commissioners in 1996 as a Democrat.

He switched to the Green Party of Colorado in 1998 and was reelected in 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012. He is a noted poet and writer of several books and the poet laureate of the Telluride Mushroom Festival. He grew up in California and graduated from San Francisco State University in 1970. He is also co-chair of the Green Party of Colorado.

Telluride

Mushroom Festival

Presented by the Telluride Institute

Culinary, Cultivation, Mycoremediation, Medicinal, Entheogenic.

Kris Holstrom is the owner of Tomten Farm, a high altitude (9000’), offgrid, permaculture-based research, demonstration and education farm near Telluride, Colorado. She consults on permaculture designs, edible and medicinal landscaping, school and community gardens through her business, Productive Properties. Kris has a BS in Forest Management from Utah State University and an MS in Horticulture from Virginia Tech and for 7 years was the regional Sustainability Coordinator in San Miguel County. She is a certified Permaculture Designer, Permaculture instructor and became a mycophile through the Telluride Mushroom Festival. She’s participated in several Fungi Perfecti trainings with Paul Stamets and has a tiny mushroom grow room within her main greenhouse. She co-founded and is Board President for SWIRL – the Southwest Institute for Resilience – a nonprofit that helps support community gardens, greenhouses and the Telluride Farmers Market. Kris has spent nearly three decades educating the public and youth about sustainability issues including renewable energy, food security, waste reduction and “out of the box” systems thinking to contribute to regional solutions to current challenges.

Jay Justice is a retired epidemiologist who has studied the macrofungi that can be found in the Southern and Southeastern regions of the US for over 35 years. He is a co-founder and scientific advisor for the Arkansas Mycological Society (1982) and a scientific advisor to the Cumberland Mycological Society as well as a chief mycologist for the Missouri Mycological Society. He has recently participated in several conferences associated with the study of the macrofungi that occur in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He has given presentations and served as a field mycologist at conferences sponsored by the following mycological societies, the Gulf States Mycological Society, the Missouri Mycological Society, the Texas Mycological Society, the Mushroom Club of Georgia, the Asheville Mushroom Club, the New Mexico Mycological Society, and the Los Angeles Mycological Society. In 2011 he was the recipient of the North American Mycological Association’s “Contribution to Amateur Mycology” award. In addition to the genus Amanita, two other groups of the macrofungi that intrigue him are the Chanterelles and the members of the fleshy poroid fungi known as Boletes.

Peter McCoy is a founder of Radical Mycology, a grassroots organization and movement that teaches the means to easily work with mushrooms and other fungi for personal, societal, and ecological resilience. For the last 8 years, Radical Mycology has provided free resources and held internationally attended conferences that share the science of mycology and art mushroom cultivation in a way that is open-source, practical, and relevant in the context of modern life. Peter’s work is guided by his vision of a more myco-literate culture where the existing knowledge gap around the fungal kingdom has been closed and the beauty and gifts of these incredible organisms has been fully embraced. Peter believes mycology should be accessible for all lifestyles and life cycles and not shrouded in mystery, as it has been for so long. Peter is a mushroom cultivation and mycoremediation instructor based out of Portland, OR. He has designed numerous mycoremediation projects in Ecuador, Canada, and across the US. Peter is an active member of the Amazon Mycorenewal Project, a nonprofit organization working to develop open-source and low-cost bioremediation strategies in developing countries. Peter is the author of the upcoming book, Radical Mycology.

Author, mycologist, Arctic explorer, raconteur Lawrence Millman has written 16 books, including such titles as Last Places, Hiking to Siberia, Lost in the Arctic, The Wrong Handed Man, and Lost in the Arctic. His mycological books include Fascinating Fungi of New England, the first ever guidebook to New England fungi, and Giant Polypores & Stoned Reindeer, a group of essays about his travels in search of rare, unusual, or entheogenic fungi.

One such essay concerns his discovery of a polypore previously thought to be extinct; another essay discusses why, if you want to make a mycologist happy, you give him shit. Dr. Millman has documented fungi in places as diverse as Greenland, Costa Rica, Western Samoa, Nantucket, Panama, Iceland, Belize, and Wachusetts Wildlife Sanctuary in Princeton, Massachusetts, where he has inventoried over 500 species. Currently, he is working on a treatise on Arctic fungi as well as a book about why our devotion to screened devices (computers, smart phones, TVs, etc) is bad for Nature. He has a mountain named for him in East Greenland (he made a first ascent) and is a Fellow of the prestigious Explorers Club. He keeps a post office box in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mara Penfil currently lives in the Northern Great Lakes Region, and is a community organizer who merges traveling, education, and volunteer work to further the food, social, and environmental justice movements.

With a growing zeal for all things fungal, she spends her time working to build mycological interest and understanding around the United States and abroad. Mara’s passion to blend social and environmental justice efforts led her to co-found Female & Fungi, the on-line presence for the Womyn’s Trans’ mycological community. In addition to working with the Telluride Mushroom Festival, Mara regularly collaborates with the Radical Mycology Collective. In short, Mara is our rock star volunteer coordinator who is also an organizer for Female& Fungi and Radical Mycology.

Born and raised in northern New Jersey, Jonathan Reisman studied mathematics as an undergrad at New York University.

After graduating, he lived in Russia for two years studying the post-Soviet environmental movement as well as indigenous cultures on the Kamchatka Peninsula. He earned an M.D. at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey, during which he spent six months doing medical charity work in India. As a resident, Jonathan trained in internal medicine and pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston. He is the president of the World Health and Education Network (WHEN), a 501c3 taxexempt charity dedicated to improving healthcare and education for the neediest people throughout the world. As a clinician, his interests include wilderness and expedition medicine, and he has worked in hospitals in Boston and emergency rooms in the Alaskan Arctic. He conducts public health research in India and Tanzania on improving newborn health, and writes on medical topics in the New York Times and elsewhere. He is also an avid forager of plants and mushrooms and an enthusiast of traditional crafts and wilderness survival.

Noah Siegels’ field mycology skills are extensive – he has spent over two decades seeking, photographing, identifying, and furthering his knowledge about all aspects of macrofungi. He has hunted for mushrooms throughout the United States and Canada, as well as on multiple expeditions to New Zealand and Australia. He is one of the premier mushroom photographers in the nation, having won numerous awards from the North American Mycological Association (NAMA) photography contest. His technique and attention to detail are unrivaled, arising from a philosophy of maximizing utility for identification purposes while maintaining a high degree of aesthetic appeal. Noah recently worked with Green Mountain Digital as a consultant for the Audubon Guide to Mushrooms of North America Macintosh/Apple application, and supplied over 300 photographs for it. His photographs have appeared on the covers and have been featured in articles of multiple issues of FUNGI Magazine and Mushroom the Journal, the primary mushroom enthusiast magazines in the United States, numerous mushroom books; including the cover shot on Ascomycete Fungi of North Americas. He is currently working on, along with Christian Schwarz, Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast, a comprehensive field guide for the northern California coast. Noah travels and lectures extensively across America, following the mushrooms from east to west and everywhere in between.

Born and raised in Denver, Graham Steinruck has a special connection to the majestic Rocky Mountains - a sentiment shared by those who call Colorado home. Like many, his love and fascination for the outdoors has largely sculpted him into the person he has become.

Raised by two Colorado-transplants from out East, Graham’s mother and father fostered his appetite for adventure and cooking alike.

He’s worked in the food industry for over a decade, both in catering, restaurants, and as a private chef. With years of experience, Graham is skilled in locating and identifying many wild Rocky Mountain fungi, and knows just how to prepare each mushroom species to accentuate their flavor and texture attributes. Additionally, Graham is currently certified by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment as a Wild Mushroom Identification Expert. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

Nick Martinez has called Colorado home since his family moved here from Texas when he was 14. He fell in love with the Rocky Mountains as soon as he saw them, and still remembers the first time he saw snow fall. Nick honed his culinary skills at several well-respected restaurants over the years. He spent time working under Frank Bonnano at Mizuna, and eventually accepted an offer from Stoneking as an opening team member at ChoLon Bistro where in 2011 they were a James Beard Finalist for Best New Restaurant in America. Stoneking, along with executive chef Lon Symensma, groomed Nick into a passionate and disciplined chef. It was during this time that Nick developed an interest in wild mushroom foraging. When he wasn’t cooking, he attended public mushroom forays, and eventually met Graham Steinruck, an avid mycophile. In 2012, Nick decided to advance his career, and packed up his belongings and headed for Chicago.

There, he took a position under Chef Thomas Lents at Sixteen. He was particularly astounded by the pedigree of every chef in the kitchen there; everyone had impeccable culinary resumes. While he was there, the restaurant achieved two Michelin stars. At Sixteen, Nick learned finesse, refinement, and innovation through food.

Travis Custer has been involved in agriculture for the past 7 years focusing on the development of sustainable local food systems through mycology, permaculture, soil health, research and education. Most recently he has worked with business partner Gabe Deall to develop San Juan Mycology, a gourmet mushroom production company located in Southwest Colorado. He is currently working on a project with CSU Extension and Ft. Lewis College to look at the use of fungi in cleaning up persistent herbicide contamination of agricultural soils. Currently Travis works as a soil health and water conservation consultant for a local Soil Conservation District and the USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service. Travis lives in Mancos, CO and is the proud father of a 3 year old boy named Eddy. He looks forward to continuing his life in the four corners growing food, teaching and advocating for healthy land and communities.

Giuliana Furci has been devoted mainly to mycology since 1999. Her inescapable vocation to study Chile’s fungi has taken her to travel the country looking for them in different environments and ecosystems. In 2007 she published “Fungi Austral - Field Guide to the Outstanding Fungi of Chile”, and later in 2013 “Fungi of Chile, the Field Guide” which is currently the only book on Chilean Fungi with pictures of the species in their habitat. She has contributed to various publications such as “Biodiversity Chile, Heritage and Challenges” (CONAMA, 2006 and 2008) and “Micro-forests of Altos de Cantillana” (FPA, 2013). Thanks to Giuliana’s pivotal role, Chile is one of the few countries in the world to have included fungi in its environmental law. From 2005 to 2011, Giuliana strived for policy change affecting Chile’s intensive salmon aquaculture industry from her positions in Oceana Chile and Chilean NGO Fundaciacute Terram. In 2012 Giuliana founded The Fungi Foundation (Fundacioacute Fungi), where she currently holds the position of Executive Director. Through the Foundation, Giuliana has been focused on fungal conservation policy, sustainable wild edible mushroom harvesting, education, mycological explorations and national capacity building.

Chris Ricci w/Daisy has offered guided forays for gourmet and medicinal mushrooms in Southwest Colorado since 2010. He is a recognized mushroom identification expert, having foraged fungi across North America and Southern Africa.

He makes his own medicinal mushroom extracts and has developed simple, high-yield techniques for growing oyster mushrooms on logs.

His most recent endeavor has been training his dog, Daisy, to find fungi with her nose. Daisy is a one year old heeler mix from northern New Mexico. She enjoys chasing frisbees, playing with other dogs, and chewing on bones when she is not sniffing around.

Daisy will be assisting Chris in a presentation about hunting for truffles. More at www.majestymushrooms.com.

Nicholas Giagnoni is an ethnobotanist and has been working with entheogenic plants since 2003. He earned his bachelor of science degree in environmental studies at Northland College in Ashland, WI, and completed graduate studies in ethnobotany at the university of Kent in Canterbury England. In the summer of 2014 Nicholas returned from the Peruvian Amazon where he completed a six month apprenticeship working with Ayahuasca. He is a student, advocate and teacher on entheogenic plants and mushrooms. Nicholas lives in Chicago with his partner and daughter.

Mark Jones operates Sharondale Mushroom Farm near Charlottesville, Virginia. He grows gourmet and medicinal mushrooms, mushroom spawn, and a diverse garden with small fruit, fiber, and flowering plants. He teaches workshops about mushroom cultivation and designing perennial polycultures. His current work includes: developing lowinput mushroom growing techniques for small farms, intercropping mushrooms in the food forest, and collecting local strains of mushrooms that have potential as food, medicine, and earth healers.

Daniel Reyes is the founder and owner of the Myco Alliance in Austin Texas where he focuses on the research and development of low-impact cultivation techniques and Mycoremediation strategies for water, soil, and farm. He has a B.S. In Hydrogeology from University of Texas at Austin and has worked in the oil & gas industry doing environmental remediation. Last fall he traveled to the Ecuadorian Amazon Basin with the Amazon Mycorenewal Project where he helped establish a collaboration with a local university. He is currently working with local businesses and organizations such as One World Permaculture, Austin Compost Coalition, Logro Farms, and the Food is Free project, to advance the vision of applying affordable and efficient solutions to major environmental problems.

Free the Honey This folk quartet is homegrown on the western slope of Colorado and offers up old time and original tunes with richly layered vocal harmonies and authentic acoustic resonance.

The elements are familiar harmony singing, twin fiddle, open back banjo, guitar, mandolin, storytelling, and mountain culture. The alchemy is all their own. It is a sound inspired by place, community, and deep musical traditions. It revives in the listener a connection to the simple goodness of life, the medicine of string and wood and voice. The band cultivates a pure quality to let the instruments and stories speak plain and true.

Each member began making music from a young age. Lizzy Plotkin picked up the violin at age 5, Jenny Hill has been pickin’ with her family since age 7, Katherine Taylor spent childhood singing in the church, and Andrew Cameron began learning the piano and upright bass as a teen. The three founding ladies were raised in Tennessee, Texas, and Mississippi. After making a way to the west, they met in the Gunnison Valley and discovered that honeyed sound. Each is equally inspired to compose songs, and the diverse influences of the Americana soundscape are evident with hints of gospel, blues, country, gypsy, and jazz. The band crafts original tunes that honor tradition and are surely for this time.

Sam Muller is a M.S. Hydrogeology candidate at Clemson University who is a relative newcomer to the world of fungi. He is a member of an interdisciplinary research group that is focused on process-based design of constructed wetland treatment systems.

While researching the aerobic degradation of certain organic compounds, Sam discovered that the metabolic processes unique to white-rot fungi may allow for unique applications in the field of bioremediation. This led to collaboration with Mushroom Mountain of Liberty, SC to investigate the rate and extent of naphthenic acid removal by white-rot fungal degradation. After graduation, Sam plans to apply his education to the design of low cost, low energy bioremediation systems based on biogeochemical pathways. In the event of available free time, Sam enjoys foraging mushrooms from his mountain bike and whitewater kayak.

Ron Spinosa is past president of the Minnesota Mycological Society and was editor of the society’s newsletter, “The Toadstool Review.” He is the Chair of the Mushroom Cultivation Committee of the North American Mycological Association.

Ron presents workshops on mycology, mushroom identification, and mushroom cultivation in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota and nationally. He was a recipient of The Harry and Elsie Knighton Service Award by the North American Mycological Association.

Daniel Winkler grew up collecting and eating wild mushrooms in the Alps and has been foraging for 17 years in the Pacific Northwest where he continues to work as a mushroom educator and guide. Daniel trained as a geographer and ecologist and works as a researcher and NGO consultant on environmental issues impacting the Tibetan Plateau and Himalayas. While working in Tibet, Daniel discovered that Tibet’s diverse mushroom industry plays a crucial role in rural Tibet. This realization has led him to pursued research into Tibet’s ethnomycology for 15 years.

With his travel agency, MushRoaming LLC, he organizes and leads several mushroom focused eco-tours to Tibet, China, the Amazon, Colombia and the Pacific Northwest every year. Daniel is the author of a number of books on mushrooming including: Field Guide to Edible Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest (2011), Edible Mushrooms of California (2012), and Amazon Mushrooms with Larry Evans (2014).

Hailing from Telluride, Colorado, Niceness is a positively grounded roots reggae band blending a mix of soulful reggae, dancehall, latin, hip hop and funk. With a strong foundation of musicians, Tom Mann on bass, Michael Gomberg on drums, David Christeson on the keys, Dustin Wilson on guitar and Jonathan Barfield on percussion, the musical sense and rhythm is solid allowing for the vocal melodies of Koral Delatierra to sweep you away into the niceness that is abounding all around us.

“Our goal as a band is to spread positive vibrations with our music, sharing words of wisdom and gratitude to inspire and empower our fellow brothers and sisters to know thyself and to stand in truth and love.”

Aaron ‘inkling’ Cruz Garcia returns as the festival’s ‘Artist-in-residence’ for a fifth year. A self-taught illustrator, graphic designer and mycologist, Aaron has been a contributing illustrator to Fungi magazine since 2007. Aaron has spent this past season growing out his beard, foraging with the Telluride Mushroom Company, co-founding the State of Jefferson Mycological Society (SoOregon/NorCal), guiding forays and visiting morel patches in search of “morel stones” and “primordia” … inkling will be contributing to a new publication in the works from Britt Bunyard and Jay Justice, as an illustrator. Join inkling’s network by scanning the QR code next to the State of Jefferson Myco Society.

Aaron came to chew bubble gum and pick ascos … and he’s all out of bubble gum.

The Telluride Mushroom Festival is only possible because of the generous support, organization, and oversight of our numerous sponsors, founding families, volunteers and coordinators.

To those listed and not listed, thank you!

Art Goodtimes – Master of Ceremonies aka Shroompa Maggie Klinedinst & Olivia Coe – Festival Director and Festival Manager The Telluride Institute Dan Collins and Audrey Marnoy - Logistics Mara Penfil – Volunteer Coordinator Tradd Cotter – Mycoremediation and Cultivation Coordinator Graham Steinruck and Nick Martinez – Culinary Coordinators Elissa Dickson – Wilkinson Library Events and Cook-off Coordinator inkling Cruz Garcia – Festival Graphic Designer and Illustrator Daiva Chesonis – Author Liaison and Book Signings Dean Rolley – Sheridan Opera House AV an extra thank you to the rain, the Earth, and the mushrooms

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THE36th ELLURIDE USHROOM ESTIVAL PRESENTS Annual Telluride Mushroom Festival Telluride, Colorado | August 18-21 2016 (Dates subject to change)

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Festival :30 12:00 pm pm Pass Holders Pm - 1: 130 Open to 30 :00 Pm - 3 pm Public 1: pm Friday, August 14th

FEATURING TELLURIDE BREWING COMPANY AND TRADD COTTER’ SPECIALTY MYCOBEERS FOOD SAMPLES ARTISAN BOOTHS TMF 2016 $10 donationPoster stronglyPreview encouraged for those without a by Telluride Mushroom Festival Pass - Visit: telluridemushroomfest.org

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GOURMET MUSHROOM DINNER WITH EUGENIA BONE & GARY LINCOFF La Marmotte Telluride, Colorado 5-7PM (ends in time for Gary Lincoff’s Keynote Address)

Thursday, August 13, 2015 Join celebrity guests Gary Lincoff and Eugenia Bone for a unique mushroom dining experience created by master chef Mark Reggiannini at La Marmotte, one of Telluride's premier restaurants.

Chef Reggiannini wowed crowds at the 2014 festival with his delicious dishes and is ready for a repeat performant this year.

Tickets to this unique event are limited and can be purchased at: www.telluridemushroomfest.org

GIY Workshop

with Sue Van Hook, Chief Mycologist at Ecovative Learn from the lead scientist creating with Mushroom® Materials every day.

August 14, 2015 at 10 or 11:30am “The “Grow It Yourself” (GIY) product enables designers, artists, educators, and innovators to grow their own creations with Mushroom® Materials, just like Ecovative.”

*Pre-registration is required.

www.telluridemushroomfest.org

All Day Mushroom Cultivation Workshop August 12, 2015

This is a perfect class for beginner or intermediate cultivators wishing to easily grow a diversity of edible and medicinal mushrooms at home or on the farm.

Topics Covered in the Course Through Hands-On Activities and Presentations ‣ Low-tech methods to grow mushrooms in gardens, landscapes, and woodlands ‣ Biology and ecology of fungi ‣ Strain selection and substrate preparation ‣ Harvesting and using mushrooms ‣ Intercropping and perennial garden design, and small farm production

Limited spaces available. Tickets can be purchased at: www.telluridemushroomfest.org More information can be found here: http://sched.co/3eDM

Mark Jones operates Sharondale Mushroom Farm near Charlottesville, VA. His current work includes: developing low-input mushroom growing techniques for small farms, intercropping mushrooms in the food forest, and collecting local strains of mushrooms that have potential as food, medicine, and earth healers.

Kris Holstrom is the owner of Tomten Farm, near Telluride, Colorado. She consults on permaculture designs, edible and medicinal landscaping, school and community gardens as a certified Permaculture Designer and Instructor. She’s participated in several trainings with Paul Stamets and has a mushroom grow room within her main greenhouse.

Ron Spinosa is past president of the Minnesota Mycological Society and was editor of the society’s newsletter, “The Toadstool Review.” He is the Chair of the Mushroom Cultivation Committee of the North American Mycological Association (NAMA) and was a recipient of The Harry and Elsie Knighton Service Award by NAMA.

Mushroom Cooking Workshops August 12, 2015 Limited Tickets* Available: www.telluridemushroomfest.org *discounts available for couples or for attending both beginner and advanced classemail maggie@telluridemushroomfest.org for details!

Do you dream of harnessing the unique flavor profile, texture, and health benefits of mushrooms but need some guidance in the kitchen?

Join Graham and Nick of Hunt & Gather to master the art of cooking mushrooms. Cover the basics and move on to more advanced techniques. Students will be provided with a goodie bag containing recipes, dried mushrooms, and a pickling pack! Act quickly as there are limited spots for this unique, hands-on event!

Nick Martinez honed his culinary skills at several well-respected restaurants over the years. He spent time working under Frank Bonnano at Mizuna, and eventually accepted an offer from Stoneking as an opening team member at ChoLon Bistro where in 2011 they were a James Beard Finalist for Best New Restaurant in America. Stoneking, along with executive chef Lon Symensma, groomed Nick into a passionate and disciplined chef. It was during this time that Nick developed an interest in wild mushroom foraging. In 2012, Nick took a position under Chef Thomas Lents at Sixteen in Chicago. While he was there, the restaurant achieved two Michelin stars. At Sixteen, Nick learned finesse, refinement, and innovation through food.

Graham Steinruck has a special connection to the majestic Rocky Mountains – a sentiment shared by those who call Colorado home. Graham’s mother and father fostered his appetite for adventure and cooking alike. He’s worked in the food industry for over a decade, both in catering, restaurants, and as a private chef. With years of experience, Graham is skilled in locating and identifying many wild Rocky Mountain fungi, and knows just how to prepare each mushroom species to accentuate their flavor and texture attributes. Additionally, Graham is currently certified by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment as a Wild Mushroom Identification Expert.

Mycoremediation Workshop with Tradd Cotter

Mycoremediation ( mī-ˈkō-ri-ˌmē-dē-ˈā shən) is the art and science of using fungi in laboratory and realworld systems to reduce or remove the background contamination levels present in the water, soil, and air. This overview covers the basic function of fungal enzymes and degradation pathways in a down to earth approach for beginners to intermediate attendees wishing to gain enough knowledge and experience to begin a project immediately with the skill set learned from this workshop. This course is designed to empower your will to make a difference, which includes several hands-on activities that will persist for all to see throughout the festival weekend.

Topics Covered in the Course ‣ ‣ ‣ ‣ ‣ ‣ ‣

General Biology, Life Cycle, and Ecology of Mushrooms Spawn Expansion Techniques for Mycoremediation Projects Overview of Mycoremediation Projects Local and Worldwide Testing and Data (e.g. biological assays, interpreting data) Mycological Barriers: Runoff Containment and Remediation Techniques Surveying Town Park Site Mock Oil Spill Demonstration

When: August 12, 2015; 9am - 5pm Where: Telluride, Colorado Other: Tickets to this unique event are limited so purchase early. Tickets can be purchased at www.telluridemushroomfest.org The full course syllabus and more information can be found here: http://sched.co/3ep5 Tradd Cotter is a microbiologist, professional mycologist, and organic gardener, who has been tissue culturing, collecting native fungi in the Southeast, and cultivating both commercially and experimentally for more than twenty-two years. In 1996, he founded Mushroom Mountain, which he owns and operates with his wife, Olga, to explore applications for mushrooms in various industries and currently maintains over 200 species of fungi for food production, mycoremediation of environmental pollutants, and natural alternatives to chemical pesticides. Tradd, Olga, and their daughter, Heidi, live in Liberty, South Carolina.

WILD FOODS DINNER WITH KATRINA BLAIR August 14, 2015

FEATURING SPECIAL MUSICAL GUESTS FREE THE HONEY

Town Park Telluride, Colorado 5-7PM

Join forager and wild foods advocate, Katrina Blair, for a meal prepared from locally procured wild foods, as well as wholesome organic farmed items. Katrina will walk to the Telluride Mushroom Festival from Durango (a weeklong hike) and collect much of the fare for the WildFoods Dinner on her way.

The vegan dinner is sure to consist of delicious and elegantly prepared roots, mushrooms, berries, leaves, seeds and needles from evergreen trees, dandelions, amaranth, lamb’s-quarter, highalpine bistort and plantain that you’ll have to try to believe.

This unique event is sponsored by the Telluride Mushroom Festival, a program of the Telluride Institute.

Tickets to this unique event are limited and can be purchased at: www.telluridemushroomfest.org