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ABC's of Arkansas Summer Mushrooms

ABC's of Arkansas Summer Mushrooms

Learn from author and mycologist Jay Justice about local wild summer mushrooms including Amanitas, Boletes, and Chanterelles. Our morning presentation will be followed by a bring-your-own brown bag lunch break and afternoon foray in the Ozark National Forest to observe and collect mushrooms/fungi in their natural habitat. Then we'll gather our finds, head back to Ozark Folkways for a hands on identification workshop followed by one of our ever popular tastings! Jay Justice is a retired epidemiologist who formerly worked at the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality. He is a co-founder and scientific advisor for the Arkansas Mycological Society (1982) and a scientific advisor to the Cumberland Mycological Society as well as a chief mycologist for the Missouri Mycological Society. As anyone who has attended one of Jay's workshops in the past knows, these informative and delicious events fill up quickly. Tickets are $65 per person and include tastings. Tickets are non refundable. Participants are encouraged to wear seasonally appropriate clothing, bring lunch, a walking stick if needed, sun screen, insect repellent, drinking water and a paper sack for collecting mushrooms.

Ozark Fokways
65.00
10:00 AM - 07:00 PM on Sun, 7 Jun 2026

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Ozark Folkways
Ozark Fokways
22733 N Highway 71
Winslow, Arkansas 72959
4796343791
info@ozarkfolkways.org