New York Mycological Society

👕: Vintage Logo & Fungus Festival shirts
🔗: Link in Bio of News Section
🛍️: Sale 20% off!

T-shirts make great gifts, they help fund New York Mycological Society's programs, like , oh, and they are stylish and impeccably designed by .Sas &

We are having a sale on our dwindling inventory of t-shirts. We have discounted all of the shirts still available in the Merch section of this site. 2025 Fungus Festival t-shirts are now $20, marked down 20%. These t-shirts have a front & back design and come in two colors, natural 2️⃣, 3️⃣ and stone washed gray 4️⃣, 5️⃣

Historic New York Mushroom Club t-shirts are $15, again, marked down 20%, have the vintage logo across the chest only, no back design.

🚚 📦 Shipping, in the US, is a flat $7.00.

It will also be possible to pick up your t-shirt purchases at upcoming walks for free!. Simply select "Walk Pickup (free)" at checkout and then let us know what walk you'll be on to get the t-shirt hand delivered.

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🗓️ Sunday, Oct 5, 2025
🗣: Festival Map & Schedule
📍 Randall’s Island, NYC
🆓 Free admission

Make sure you book mark this post or head on over to our website to view the Map & Schedule.

We have so many unique and fun offerings, some all day, and some as workshops. Make sure to peruse our presentation & lecture circuits to listen in and learn from our members.

We are super excited to all of you this Sunday on Randall's Island!

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🗓️ Sunday, Oct 5, 2025
🗣: Our Partners!
📍 Randall’s Island, NYC
🆓 Free admission

We hope you are all as excited about our event in 48hrs! Here are some of the activities that will be happening all day!

1️⃣ Mushroom Walks/ – Learn about the common fall mushrooms of Randall's Island on this walk which will be guided by an expert from the New York Mycological Society, NYC's mushroom club
1️⃣ ID Table/ – Learn about how to identify fungi through macro features. We will local mushrooms at the tables for you to learn.
**Please bring your own mushrooms and we will help you to identify**
1️⃣ Microscopy/ – Come hang with NYMS and zoom into nature at 40-100X magnification with microscopes. Roam on rhizomes and other samples, talk about microbes and mycelium with community scientists
1️⃣ Welcome Table & Merch/ – Get your Festival Tshirts here and info about the festival
2️⃣ NYMS/RIPA Arts & Crafts – A place where kids and adults are encouraged to create their own mushroom themed Arts and crafts. Our volunteers are there to inspire you
2️⃣ Farm Tour Whats the name of the farm, social? – Learn about the innovative urban agriculture and educational programming happening at the Randall's Island Urban Farm with an Urban Farmer and Park-as-Lab Coordinator
2️⃣ Cultivation Station –Join the NYRP Urban Ag team and Randall's Island Urban Farm crew for a hands-on oyster mushroom bag-making workshop
3️⃣ Big Reuse/ – Big Reuse brings NYC residents together to care for their own green infrastructure and empower communities to embrace composting, tree care, and reuse at a grassroots level, scalable citywide and beyond.
4️⃣ Bike Ride/ – Ride to Fungus Festival with El Barrio Bikes! Meet up at Thomas Jefferson Park in Harlem and enjoy a scenic ride along the riverfront and through the park, ending at the Festival! Free Citi Bikes will be provided thanks to our partnership with Citi Bike

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🗓️ Sunday, Oct 5, 2025
🗣: Mushroom Companies
📍 Randall’s Island, NYC
🆓 Free admission

This is our partner spotlight. Thank you for not only being our friends, but supporting us, and letting us help support you!

1️⃣ Cam's Urban Farm/ –Fresh Mushrooms and Extracts
2️⃣ Mushroom Queens/ –Tinctures powders, dried mushrooms, mushroom jerky, candy mushrooms, fungi umami sauce,mushroom picture painting station,, growbags Fresh Mushrooms
3️⃣ Catskills Fungi/ – Mushroom Health Extracts, Books, Catskill Fungi T-shirts, FUNDIS T-shirts, Pocket Guide, Medicinal Pamphlet, Hand lens, Stickers


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🗓️ Sunday, Oct 5, 2025
🗣: Our Partners!
📍 Randall’s Island, NYC
🆓 Free admission

You want to learn from the best? Make sure you signup for our workshops, spaces is limited, so hurry up and fill these amazing workshops up! You may find links on our Fungus Festival Program page on our website. 🔗 Link in bio

1️⃣ Bronx Alliance/ – Meet the Bronx River Foodway Team at Fungus Festival and bring a soil sample to be scanned for heavy metal contaminants like lead
2️⃣ Biotech without Borders –An Introduction to fungal DNA Sequencing. Learn about how fungi can be sequenced via simple equipment to find out the species and how that species is related to the whole fungal tree of life.
3️⃣ Maya Han – A selection of mycological mini-documentaries and experimental short films by artists and filmmakers in the NYMS community
4️⃣ Curbside Composting Outreach – Learn about composting
5️⃣ Sol Aramendi/ – Vamos a honguear, walk in Spanish Spell check?

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🗓️ Sunday, Oct 5, 2025
🗣: Workshops pt.2
📍 Randall’s Island, NYC
🆓 Free admission

You want to learn from the best? Make sure you signup for our workshops, spaces is limited, so hurry up and fill these amazing workshops up! You may find links on our Fungus Festival Program page on our website. 🔗 Link in bio

8️⃣ Elan Trybuch/.slime.patrol – Macro photography session, meet and chat with Elan to learn about his process
9️⃣ Roberta Trentin/ – Funga Paper Workshop. Mushrooms offer an exciting opportunity as an alternative source for paper production
1️⃣1️⃣ Life Art Fungi/ – Exquisite co**se FUNGI drawing game
1️⃣2️⃣ Irina Adam/ –Discover the natural perfumes that include mushroom and fungal- related notes.
1️⃣3️⃣ NYC Nature Drawing Club/ – Observational Mushroom Drawing
1️⃣4️⃣ Loni Diep/ – Baking with Mushrooms Demo
1️⃣5️⃣ Madam Susan/ – Mushrooms in Asian Cooking Demo

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🗓️ Sunday, Oct 5, 2025
🗣: Workshops
📍 Randall’s Island, NYC
🆓 Free admission

You want to learn from the best? Make sure you signup for our workshops, spaces is limited, so hurry up and fill these amazing workshops up! You may find links on our Fungus Festival Program page on our website. 🔗 Link in bio

1️⃣ Dre Mershad/.yoga – Mushroom Yoga is Dre's approach to the synchronization of two potent healing modalities, yoga and medicinal fungi
2️⃣ NYRP Urban Ag team/ – Oyster Mushroom Cultivation
3️⃣ Max March-Steinman/ – Myco-Movement: Dance and Fungi Inspired Somatic Workshop. This is a playful, interactive workshop that uses movement and connection to explore fungal network
4️⃣ SOMA/ –Communal Body Mapping: Weaving Our Somatic Liberation as Our Collective Mycelium. The practice of communal body mapping serves as a powerful tool for somatic liberation, connecting individuals in a shared journey of healing and self-discovery
5️⃣ Shroomscape, the Original Mycelium Mindset Board Game/ – Come play The Interbeing Project's Shroomscape is The IBP's original mycelium-mindset board game
6️⃣ Roman Kosoy – To Eat or not to Eat: Edible and Poisonous and Meh Mushrooms Around Us. educate about the diversity and characteristics of the mushrooms that we can, should not, or MUST NOT consume.
7️⃣ Bethany Beech/ – See fibers dyed with mushroom pigments as well as examples of the fruit bodies used to create different colors.
8️⃣ Elan Trybuch/.slime.patrol – Macrophotography session, meet and chat with Elan to learn about his process
9️⃣ Roberta Trentin/ – Funga Paper Workshop. Mushrooms offer an exciting opportunity as an alternative source for paper production
1️⃣1️⃣ Life Art Fungi/ – Exquisite co**se FUNGI drawing game
1️⃣2️⃣ Irina Adam/ –Discover the natural perfumes that include mushroom and fungal- related notes.
1️⃣3️⃣ NYC Nature Drawing Club/ – Observational Mushroom Drawing
1️⃣4️⃣ Loni Diep/ – Baking with Mushrooms Demo
1️⃣5️⃣ Madam Susan/ – Mushrooms in Asian Cooking Demo


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🗓️ Sunday, Oct 5, 2025
🗣: Artists & Vendors
📍 Randall’s Island, NYC
🆓 Free admission

Here are some of the vendors & artists that you will find at Fungus Festival 2025. Make sure to stop by all of them to talk shop, and to shop some swag!

1️⃣ NYC Nature Drawing Club/ – Original Art, Ceramics, Risographs, t-shirts
2️⃣ Elan Trybuch/.slime.patrol – Myxomycete Photograpy, Meet the shape-shifters of the microbial world!
3️⃣ Blacki Migliozzi/ –Glowing Fungi from the Amazon to NYC. Dive into the captivating realm of fluorescence and bioluminescence within the fungi kingdom.
4️⃣ Life Art Fungi/ – Botanical Illustrations of Fungi and Cats
5️⃣ Riitta Ikonen/ –Posters, Postcards and Mushrooms wearables
6️⃣ Farah Marie Velten/ – Fungi Cyanotypes Originals and Stock Card Prints
7️⃣ Brooke Goldstein/ –Prints, stickers and calendars
8️⃣ Irina Adams/ –Mushroom Perfumes. Natural perfumes that include mushroom and fungal- related notes. I love the smell of mushrooms, they can add mystery, earthiness and gourmand flair to perfumes
9️⃣ Loni Diep/ – Mushroom Desserts and Art

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🗓️ Sunday, Oct 5, 2025
🍛: Food Vendor Preview
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🆓 Free admission

Here is a sneak peak to the food vendors who will be feeding the hungry Mycophiles at the 2025 Fungus Festival on . In no particular order:

1️⃣ : More Shrooms NYC offer Mexican Style Dishes with Mushrooms
2️⃣ : Delicious and nourishing raw vegan cacao date balls by Julie Jewell
3️⃣ : Small batches three Asian-style sauces: Umami Sauce (a Japanese style miso-sake sauce made with Shiitake Mushrooms), Chili Crisp, and Sichuan Dipping Sauce by Madame Susan
4️⃣ : Four Wall Farm and its Test Kitchen are mushroom farmers and food innovators who explore the boundaries of mushroom-based farm-to-table cuisine
5️⃣ : Mushroom-based pastries and snacks that are gluten free, dairy free, lower sugar, with vegan options by Loni Diep
6️⃣ Tania's kitchen is Haitian food made with love in New York City, including the famous Djon-Djon rice, a rice dish flavored and colored with Psathyrella mushrooms native to Haiti
7️⃣ : Mushroom-based pastries and snacks that are gluten free, dairy free, lower sugar, with vegan options.
8️⃣ : Plant Based and vegetarian dishes by chef John

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🗓️ Sunday, Oct 5, 2025
🗣: Fungal Ecology Presentations
📍 Randall’s Island, NYC
🆓 Free admission

Our 3rd and final presenter spotlight at Fungus Festival 2025 is on Physical & Social Interactions of Fungi. You may find additional information about each in the 🔗 link in our bio for the Fungus Festival Program page on our website.

1️⃣ Ifetayo Harvey – Fungus and the War on Drugs –
This interactive workshop explores the origins of the war on drugs, its ties to psilocybin, and how ending it benefits society, while also highlighting the therapeutic and cultural uses of psychedelics. Audience participation is encouraged.

2️⃣ Bruce Trigg – Mushrooms and Poisons –
This informal, story-driven lecture introduces the basics of safe mushroom consumption, the main classes of mushroom toxins with real-world examples, and common types of poisoning. With clear explanations, slides, and (hopefully) specimens for hands-on learning, we’ll also touch on new challenges like AI misidentification.

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🗓️ Sunday, Oct 5, 2025
🗣: Fungal Ecology Presentations
📍 Randall’s Island, NYC
🆓 Free admission

Our 2nd spotlight of presenters at Fungus Festival 2025 is on Fungal Ecology. You may find additional information about each in the 🔗 link in our bio for the Fungus Festival Program page on our website.

1️⃣ Aubrey Carter – Burn Mushrooms of the Northeast –
Last year, a historic drought set the conditions for fires to rage across the northeast. Join in for an observation of what mushrooms popped up in the aftermath of last fall’s forest fires.

2️⃣ Whitney Bauck and Lauren Wilson – Community Mapping the Mycelial Underground –
This talk shares our community science project to map New York’s soil fungi, from introducing local mycorrhizal communities and their importance to mobilizing neighbors to collect soil samples for DNA and heavy metal analysis. We’ll highlight insights from our first pilot dig in Brower Park, Crown Heights, in spring 2025.

3️⃣ Aishwarya Veerabahu – The Midas Mushroom: Ecology, Evolution, and Management of Invasive Golden Oyster Mushrooms –
Golden oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) are now common edible “neighbors” in our landscapes—but how do they affect local fungi? This talk traces their origin, ecological impacts, and future research into their evolution and management.

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🗓️ Sunday, Oct 5, 2025
🗣: Mycorrhizal Presentations
📍 Randall’s Island, NYC
🆓 Free admission

We are excited to spotlight some of our presenters at Fungus Festival 2025. Our first spotlight will be on Mycorrhizal presentations. You may find additonal information about each in the link in our bio for the Fungus Festival Program page on our website.

1️⃣ Alexandra Kirlan – The History & Future of Mycorrhizal Fungi Cultivation –
Exploring fungi beyond their fruiting bodies, tracing the history and future of mycorrhizal cultivation—from French truffières to Chinese morel farms—and their vital role in agriculture, organic farming, and emerging research on ecological mimicry.

2️⃣ Lorraine Cruz – Living in a Plastisphere –
“Living in a Plastisphere” explores how microbial communities—fungi and bacteria working together to metabolize synthetic plastics—reveal both the ecological impact of plastic and new possibilities for rethinking waste, single-use manufacturing, and extractive production.

3️⃣ Hector Prudhomme – Rooting the Future: Mycorrhizal Fungi, Farming, and Climate Change–
This talk introduces the two main types of mycorrhizal fungi—arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal—and their critical roles in plant nutrition, forest and crop resilience, and carbon sequestration. Highlighting key scientific discoveries, it concludes with a walkthrough of SPUN’s new Underground Atlas, which maps global mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots and underscores the urgent need to protect these hidden ecosystems.

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