2014

Photo by James Holkko

Thanks to everyone who helped celebrate our natural world during the 12th annual Fungus Among Us Mushroom Festival.

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This year’s turnout was the biggest yet. Over 175 keen folks were led into the woods by our 16 fungus gurus. It’s taken a couple of weeks to confirm what exactly was found, and we can now report 166 different types of mushrooms, 15 of which hadn’t been previously recorded in Whistler.

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The total number of species known in Whistler is now comfortably over 800.

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The Whistler Naturalists would thank our key sponsors: the Community Foundation of Whistler, AWARE, RMOW and Nesters Market for donating supplies for the mushroom tasting.

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Special thanks also go to: Juliet Pendray and the Toadstool Troupe for their highly entertaining performance on fungal speed dating; Andy MacKinnon for his talk and fantastic fungal compilation - the “Fabulous Fungus Film Festival”; Kevin Trim for donating his fungus sculptures for our raffle; the fabulous mushroom gurus for leading the walks on Saturday and for the fungus display; gourmet chefs Paul Moran and Stephanie Noel for presenting the hugely popular cooking with mushrooms demonstration and tasting; the great group of volunteers who helped out and all the folks that came out to share their enthusiasm and wonder for all things fungal.

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See you next year!

Thanks to James Holkko for these photos:

Thanks to Joern Rohde for these photos: