02/10/2026
Just over a week to go!! Get your tickets sorted, plan your day and book any sessions you fancy, wild mushroom menu coming soon, so you can even book your lunch! 🍄🍄🟫
Here it is - The full timetable of activities and workshops taking place at The Northern Fungi Festival on Sunday 11th October at Ruberslaw Wild Woods Camping.
There are activities taking place all day from 10am until 4pm, and something for all ages and levels of fungi interest. Activities marked with an asterisk require an additional booking fee, whilst all others are free but limited in spaces. Where necessary, there will be sign up sheets available on the day.
Please remember this is a CASH only event, and tickets can be bought in advance via our Eventbrite page.
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Activities
🍄Join Arthur, Sybbie and The Grizzly Forager on a family friendly fungi walk through the grounds of the campsite, searching for weird and wonderful fungi from 11am and 2pm. These sessions are free to attend and will operate on a first come first served basis.
🌿Mycologist and forager Neville Kilkenny will be leading a fungi identification walk from as well as a talk in the tent at 1pm, centred around fungi conservation. Both of these are free to attend.
🍄 Passionate forager and chef Craig Worral from Edible Leeds - Wild & Wonderful, and 4 Wild Seasons will be leading two wild food cooking workshops, with a special focus on cooking with wild fungi. You can join him from 10.30am to explore the versatility of mushrooms, and again at 2.30pm for a family friendly cooking with fungi workshop.
🌿 Lucy Cuzzocrea, of Wild Roots Foraging, will be hosting a fascinating talk on the history, folklore and science of fly agaric, alongside its place in traditional medicine. Bring your curiosity and join her in one of our outdoor tents from 12pm. This talk is free to attend.
🌿Join the organisers Gemma or Rachel for a hands-on fungi identification workshop and discover the multitude of different tools at your disposal to help you identify your finds! Running at 2 and 3pm, join them in the tent on a first come first served basis.
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The Glass House
🍂Elaine Porter from The White Lantern Company will be hosting three workshops throughout the morning and inviting you to come along and have a go at creating your own willow mushroom to take home with you. Booking can be done in advance by contacting Elaine directly, but drops in are welcome on the day too. The cost for this activity will be £10 per mushroom
✨ Join Pete Carthy from Instinctively Wild CIC from 2pm in the Glasshouse for a mushroom nature journaling in watercolour workshop, where Pete will introduce you to the art of observing, drawing and painting mushrooms using watercolour paints. No experience is needed, but you're welcome to bring along your own specimens or photographs to use a reference if you wish. To book your space, please email Pete at [email protected] or drop us a message for his contact number. Price for this workshop is £15pp.
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There will be timetables available on the day, but be sure to save this image to your phone for easy reference!
This event is kindly sponsored by Association of Foragers and UK Fungus Day - The flagship outreach of the British Mycological Society
