Santa Cruz Mountain Mushroom Festival Roaring Camp Railroad, Felton California May 3rd-4th, 2025
PRESENTATIONS - PANEL DISCUSSIONS - COOKING DEMOS - CULTIVATION WORKSHOPS - MEDICIANL MUSHROOMS - FOOD- KIDS ZONE - LIVE MUSIC - ARTISAN VENDORS - HANDS ON ACTIVITIES AND MUSH MUSH MORE!!
Festival Hours 10am - 5pm
2024 was an amazing kick-off event where we had 3,000+ attendees, 50+ presenters, 5 bands, 8 food booths, 6 cooking demos, 10 DIY activities, nature walks, hands-on cultivation booths, and some incredible community art projects.
The festival will take place at Roaring Camp Railroad, set amongst towering old growth Redwood groves and neighboring Henry Cowell State Park, just north of Santa Cruz. The grounds are expansive and include historic buildings, hiking trails, and wooden railroad trestles that carry passengers on some of the world's oldest working steam engine trains.
https://roaringcamp.com/
Presentations from topics including:
Medicinal Mushrooms, Cultivation, Building Culture, Truffles, Mushroom Mixology, Mushroom Farming,
Mycoremediation, Psychedelics, Research and mush mush more.
DIY Hands-on Workshops:
Fabric dyeing • painting with mushroom pigment • fermenting with fungi • log cultivation demonstration • straw pasteurization • tissue cultures • spore prints • tincture making and more.
KIDS ZONE • NATURE WALKS • LIVE MUSIC • VENDORS • FOOD BOOTHS • ART GALLERY
Cooking Demo with world-renown chefs (taste testing too!)
Jessica Yarr White, The Grove Cafe & Bakery • Mat Schuster, Canela SF • Brad Briske, HOME Soquel • Chad Hyatt, Private Chef • Eric Tucker, Millennium