SAN MARCOS: Southern Family Farmers & Food Systems Conference
The Southern Family Farmers and Food Systems Conference will bring you 2 days of educational sessions hosted by 80+ expert speakers. On Monday, we will host a mushroom block giveaway.
AUSTIN: SporeCorps - Mushroom Cultivation 101
Join us in-person on Mushroom Monday at Stargazer Cocktails & Coffee to learn how to grow culinary and specialty mushrooms from Danielle from Cap City Shrooms. Go home with the knowledge and kit to get started! Mushroom cocktails, mocktails & more.
ONLINE: Animal Mycophiles— Critters That Hunt, Farm, Self-Medicate and Get High on Fungi
Author Eva Gordon reveals the secret world of animals that hunt, farm, and self-medicate with fungi. Drawing on zoology and mycology, she transforms complex science into captivating stories—from truffle-hunting pigs to elephants seeking medicinal mushrooms. Don't miss this fascinating blend of expertise and storytelling that will change how you see nature.
AUSTIN: Realms of Fungi
Join us on the opening night of local artist celebrations within the realms of fungi!
AUSTIN: SporeCorps - Mushroom Cultivation 101
Curious about growing your own culinary mushrooms? Join us at the Buzz Mill Coffee to learn how to grow mushrooms at home!
AUSTIN: Mushroom Block Giveaway at Texas Veg Fest
We will be at Texas Veg Fest with mushroom blocks for you to take home! Come learn how to use mushroom blocks to grow mushrooms in containers, compost and help guild fungal-rich soil.
SAN ANTONIO -Pollinator Tea Party
Join us at the San Antonio River Foundation’s Pollinator Tea Party for a hands-on lesson in nature’s recycling system!
AUSTIN: 🚲 Myco Cyco 6
Join us for the 5th annual bicycle ride through Central Austin to forage mushrooms.
AUSTIN: Spore Stories Craft Workshop
Join us at the John Gillum Branch public library for a deep dive into the relationship between fungi, myth, nature and art. Come prepared to listen, learn, write and craft!
AUSTIN: Composting With Mycelium!
Learn how to make an excellent soil amendment in your own backyard!
Come out for a discussion to learn about Johnson-Su Bioreactors together, a low-maintenance, passive composting system that yields highly fungal compost! This design was created by husband-wife duo Dr. David Johnson and Hui Chun Su during Johnson's PhD research at New Mexico State University. The method has since been modified to make backyard composting very easy.
AUSTIN: Orchid Mycology Walk (7/25)
Join us for a guided nature walk to observe the Glass Mountain Crested Coralroot (Bletia nitida)—a threatened, mycoheterotrophic orchid that obtains nutrients through fungal parasitism rather than photosynthesis. This is also a chance to see our state mushroom the Devil’s Cigar or Chorioactis geaster which is also fruiting after the recent rains!
AUSTIN: Summer UV Night Walk
Explore the nocturnal wild of the Violet Crown Trail with UV flashlights, moon viewings, and play glow-in-the-dark bingo! Perfect for families, nature lovers, and curious kids
ONLINE: Waste to Wonder — Mycelium in Interior Design Exploration
Completely new to mycology, two UT architecture students set out to explore the material and design potential of mycelium found in spent mushroom blocks.
AUSTIN: Orchid Mycology Walk
Join us for a guided nature walk to observe the Glass Mountain Crested Coralroot (Bletia nitida)—a threatened, mycoheterotrophic orchid that obtains nutrients through fungal parasitism rather than photosynthesis.
AUSTIN: Fungi Through Deep Time
Dive into Mycology 101 with an emphasis on stories and role of fungal evolution during the Triassic-Jurassic period, a time of significant evolutionary change!
SAN ANTONIO: SporeCorps - Mushroom Cultivation 101
Curious about growing your own culinary mushrooms? Join us at San Antonio Botanical Garden for our new SporeCorps program to learn all the basics behind growing mushrooms at home!
AUSTIN: Orchid Mycology Walk
Join us for a guided nature walk to observe the Glass Mountain Crested Coralroot (Bletia nitida)—a threatened, mycoheterotrophic orchid that obtains nutrients through fungal parasitism rather than photosynthesis.
AUSTIN: SporeCorps - Mushroom Cultivation 101
Join us in-person on Mushroom Monday at Stargazer Cocktails & Coffee to learn how to grow culinary and specialty mushrooms. Go home with the knowledge and kit to get started! Mushroom cocktails, mocktails, vendors & more.
LIVESTREAM: SporeCorps - Mushroom Summer School
Get certified in mushroom cultivation and earn a sparkly SporeCorps patch. Get discount codes for spores and everything you need to get started from North Spore and local vendors!
AUSTIN: Fungi Through Deep Time
Dive into Mycology 101 with an emphasis on stories and role of fungal evolution during the Triassic-Jurassic period, a time of significant evolutionary change!
EAST TEXAS: Mushroom ID Walk at Watson Rare Mushroom Preserve
Join legendary mycologist David Lewis, author of Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast States who has discovered many new species of mushrooms at the Watson Rare Native Plant Preserve in East Texas.
EAST TEXAS: Farm Tour & Forest-to-Table Dinner
Experience a true taste of the Piney Woods with an evening farm tour and picnic-style dinner at Broussard Farms, where you'll meet the pastured chickens and goats before sitting down to a meal made from the land. The menu features smoked pasture-raised chicken salad, local sourdough, goat cheeses, herb lemonade, and a one-of-a-kind chanterelle goat milk custard ice cream.
EAST TEXAS: Mushroom Foraging Walk at David Lewis Property
Join legendary mycologist David Lewis, author of Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast States who has discovered many new species of mushrooms in Deep East Texas at his 60 acres Bleakwood property.
AUSTIN: Spore Stories - Myth, Art & Mushrooms
Join us at the Hampton Branch at Oak Hill public library for a deep dive into the relationship between fungi, myth, nature and art. Come prepared to listen, learn, write and craft!
ONLINE: Eat the Epstein Class: What Fungi Teaches Us About Decomposing Extractive Capitalism
This online class reframes the Epstein case not as a story of individual corruption, but as a symptom of industrial capitalism’s "waste logic." Using fungi as a guide, the talk explores how decomposition, rather than purity, offers a model for transforming contamination and shared trauma.
LOCKHART: Wild Mushroom of Texas
Join us at the Lost Pines Master Naturalists monthly meeting to learn about wild mushrooms of Texas. Learn how to identify wild edibles from the toxic mushrooms and learn the larger role fungi play in the environment.
DRIFTWOOD: Mushroom Block Giveaway at Pollinator Week Celebration
It’s Pollinator Week! Join our friends at Wild Spirit, Wild Places for a fun-filled afternoon at Vista Brewing to explore the powerful connection between native plants, fungi and pollinators.
ONLINE: SporeCorps - Mycoremediation Workshop
Learn about how we can work with fungi to remove contamination from the environment. From plastics to heavy metals, fungi may hold the key towards a healthy future!
BASTROP: Mushroom Composting Workshop
Join us for a hands-on workshop building Johnson-Su bioreactors—one of the simplest and most effective ways to grow beneficial soil microbes at home!
ONLINE: Clone Wars Lab Nights
CloneWars Lab Night is our cross-city mycelial meetup: A livestream where ATX and SATX labs open their workbenches and share the magic of sterile culture in real time.
ONLINE: Clone Wars Lab Nights
CloneWars Lab Night is our cross-city mycelial meetup: A livestream where ATX and SATX labs open their workbenches and share the magic of sterile culture in real time.
CEDAR PARK: The Hissing Mushroom – A Fun Science Adventure!
Join us for a fun and fascinating science adventure at the Cedar Park library as we meet the rare Texas Star Mushroom (Chorioactis geaster) — a mushroom that actually hisses when it opens from it's "Devil Cigar" shape!
SAN ANTONIO: Pop-up Mushroom Walk
Learn how to forage wild edible mushroom using iNaturalist and field guides. Experts will teach you how to identify culinary mushrooms as well as those to be cautious of.
AUSTIN: Pop-up Mushroom Walk
Learn how to forage wild edible mushroom using iNaturalist and field guides. Experts will teach you how to identify culinary mushrooms as well as those to be cautious of.
AUSTIN: SporeCorps - Mushroom Cultivation 101, Learn to Grow Wood ear Mushrooms
Take our introductory in-person course on mushroom cultivation. Art will guide you through the basics from inoculation to harvest teaching and some pro-tips on how to cultivate rare, culinary mushrooms like wood ears!
ONLINE: Myco-Phytoremediation: A Socio-Ecological Reconciliation
Join us to learn about a seven year project based on and field research where a degraded riparian forested buffer was restored with native plant polycultures and endemic mycorrhizal fungi.
AUSTIN: Grow Huitlacoche on Corn
Join us at The Natural Gardener to cultivate gourmet huitlacoche, the Mexican corn fungus. Learn how to inoculate, when to harvest, and savor with expert guides and a take-home spore syringe.
SMITHVILLE: Fungal Collection Workshop for UT Fungarium
Join this hands-on workshop at UT’s Stengl Lost Pines to learn ethical mushroom collection, identification, and preservation techniques while contributing directly to the University of Texas Fungarium’s scientific research.