Schedule & Map 2024

Welcome to the Gulf Coast Fungi Fest 2024 schedule page! We're thrilled to unveil this year's exciting lineup of events and activities. Explore new pathways and adventures waiting for you. Dive into the details and start planning your journey with us. Set your compass and get ready for an unforgettable experience this year!

Friday

 Speaker Series in the Monet Garden

Workshops and Activities 

Music Lineup at the Main Stage

8:00 AM- 12:00 PM

Gates open for Vendor Setup

12:00 PM

Gates open for entry

2:00 PM

Introduction and Welcome

4:00- 4:50 PM

Tanner Hammond

Flavors and Techniques of Cooking Mushrooms at Home

5:00- 5:50 PM

Ben Raines

Learning to Love Ourselves (How to break the habit of Landscape Pornography)

6:00- 6:50 PM

Mushroom Cultivation Q&A Panel

8:00 AM- 12:00 PM

Gates open for Vendor Setup

12:00 PM

Gates open for entry 

2:00 PM

Introduction and Welcome in the Monet Garden

4:00- 4:50 PM

Cooking Demonstration with Mushroom Man Tan in the Monet Garden

8:00- 9:00 PM

Nighttime UV Foray

Meet in the Monet Garden

8:00 AM- 12:00 PM

Gates open for Vendor Setup

12:00 PM

Gates open for entry

6:00- 6:45 PM

Sloth 

7:00- 7:45 PM

TBA

8:00- 8:45 PM

Ballastella

9:00- 10:00 PM 

Walter Ego

10:00- midnight

Josh Zook

 

Saturday

 Speaker Series in the Monet Garden

Workshops and Activities 

Music Lineup at the Main Stage 

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

Michael Wilson

Amanita muscaria: From Myth to Medicine

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- 9:15 AM

Yoga with Ashley Jones in the Monet Garden

9:45- 10:30 AM

Sound Bath at the Main Stage

9:30 AM- 10:45 AM

Plant Walk

Meet at the Main Stage

10:45- 11:45 AM

Composting With Josh Zook in Vendor Village

12:00- 1:45 PM

Mushroom Foray

Meet at the Main Stage

10:00 AM- 2:00 PM

Kid's Mushroom Craft Corner in the Vendor Village with Cooper Farm

7:00- 8:00 PM

Cooking Demonstration with Shaun Thompson in the Monet Garden

8:00- 9:00 PM

Nighttime UV Foray

Meet in the Monet Garden

4:00- 4:45 PM

No Complications

5:00- 5:45 PM

Oversight

6:00- 6:45 PM

Jared Daws

7:00- 7:45 PM

Goodwin Rainer

8:00- 11:00 PM

Cavae Mundi

Sunday

 Speaker Series in the Monet Garden

Workshops and Activities 

Music Lineup at the Main Stage

10:00- 10:50 AM

Allen Carroll

Commercial Wild Mushrooming in Alabama

11:00- 11:50 AM

Taylor Hayes

Navigating the Psychedelic Landscape

12:00- 12:50 PM

Psilocybin Q&A Panel 

8:00- 9:15 AM

Yoga with Rhena Baxter in the Monet Garden

8:00- 9:00 AM

Breathwork with Brandon Olson at the Main Stage

9:15- 10:00 AM

Sound Bath at the Main Stage

9:00- 10:00 AM

Mushroom Log Inoculation Workshop in the Monet Garden

11:00 AM

Best Costume and Hat Contest Winners announced at the Main Stage

2:00 PM 

Closing Remarks at the Main Stage

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Open Jam

12:00- 2:00

Danny and Adam

 

Gulf Coast Fungi Festival Map