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: 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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 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.
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!
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: 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.
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!
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: Spore Stories at John Gillum Public Library
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: 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.
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.
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.
BASTROP: Pop-up Mushroom Walk
Join us in Bastrop in the post oak savannah ecoregion to observe and identify mushroom biodiversity using iNaturalist and field guides.
AUSTIN: Mushroom Walk - The Science & Magic of Fairy Rings
Join at the Zilker Botanical Garden for a whimsical Mushroom Walk exploring the magic and science of fairy rings!
AUSTIN: Mushroom Gardening Workshop
Join us for a hands on workshop at Bruning Green Pocket Park a hands-on workshop where you will take home your own container ready to grow mushrooms.
DRIPPING SPRINGS: UV Night Walk at Dusk to Dark Star Party at Shield Ranch
Join us for a UV night walk and more at the Dusk to Dark Star Party at Shield Ranch Barton Creek, the first Urban Night Sky Place in Texas.
AUSTIN: Mushroom Block Giveaway at Herb Day
Join us for a full day of community celebration, botanical learning and herbal healing. We will have mushroom blocks and more.
AUSTIN: Bioblitz & Mushroom Block Giveaway at Holly Shores
We will be Holly Shores for the Bioblitz. Andrea will be there to help identify lichens and mushrooms and we will also have mushroom blocks for you to take home to get your gardens mulched and decomposing to make fungal-rich soil.
DRIPPING SPRINGS: UV Night Walk at UT Hill Country Field Station
Join us for a family friendly UV night walk to see the forest in a new light for City Nature Challenge.
ONLINE: Mushroom Hunting for Science: Your Adventure in DNA Discovery
Learn to collect and preserve mushrooms for DNA barcoding. Help document Central Texas's severely understudied fungal diversity as a community scientist.
AUSTIN: Mushroom Block Giveaway at TreeFolks Annual Friends & Family Picnic
This year, the TreeFolks Friends and Family Picnic is going BIG! Our love for trees is absolutely contagious, and we’re inviting every tree and nature lover to help us celebrate the incredible native trees of Central Texas!
AUSTIN: Texas Mushroom Conference
Join us at the 4th Annual Texas Mushroom Conference, a gathering of mushroom enthusiasts, cultivators, and experts!
SPECIAL EVENT: Texas Mushroom Conference Pre-party at Green Acres Hopfest
Join us for a full day of fungi-focused fundraising activities, all happening inside the annual Green Acres Hopfest at Jester King Brewery the day before the Texas Mushroom Conference! Alan Rockefeller is in town and we will be doing a mushroom photography class and UV night walk!
AUSTIN: Mushroom Bingo at Austin Nature Day
Join us at the Austin Nature and Science Center to celebrate the flora, fauna and funga that make Central Texas unique!
AUSTIN: Community Composting: Johnson-Su Bioreactor 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!
POSTPONED: 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: SporeCorps - Mushroom Cultivation 101 (In-Person)
Take our introductory in-person course on mushroom cultivation, from inoculation to harvest. Learn hacks for dung vs wood loving varieties. Austin will guide you through the basics from inoculation to harvest using some real grill master hacks!
GEORGETOWN: Mushroom Block Giveaway at Sun City Plant Sale
We will be at Sun City Plant Sale 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.
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.
DRIFTWOOD: Medicinal Mushroom Workshop
This workshop explores creative, seasonal, and intuitive ways to incorporate medicinal mushrooms like Turkey Tail, Lion’s Mane, and Reishi into flavorful DIY preparations such as tinctures, vinegars, and oxymels, blending gastronomy with wellness.
AUSTIN: Mushroom Block Giveaway at Squatch Frontier Fitness
We will be at Squatch’s Bloom Community Workout and we will have mushroom blocks for fruiting a second flush and for showing you how to up your fitness game with fungi.