Schedule & Map

The journey through Gulf Coast Fungi Fest 2023 was truly one for the books! As we chart our course for the 2024 edition, we'd love for you to revisit the vibrant pathways of last year. Check out the detailed schedule and map from 2023 to reminisce about the events you attended and the places you explored – it’s a wonderful way to imagine the adventures awaiting you next year.

Hold tight! We're currently sketching the blueprint for 2024. Until then, let last year's roadmap guide your excitement and anticipation.

 Ready to journey with us again in 2024? Set your compass, and stay tuned! 

Friday

 Speaker Series in the Monet Garden

Workshops and Activities 

Music Lineup at the Main Stage

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

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

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

 

Saturday

 Speaker Series in the Monet Garden

Workshops and Activities 

Music Lineup at the Main Stage 

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

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

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

Sunday

 Speaker Series in the Monet Garden

Workshops and Activities 

Music Lineup at the Main Stage

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

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

 

9:45 - 11:45 AM

Webster's Wheel

12:00 - 2:00 PM

Swamp Water Symphony

 

Gulf Coast Fungi Festival Map