Northwest Mushroomers Association

Northwest Mushroomers Association An educational group serving Whatcom, Skagit and Island counties. www.northwestmushroomers.org/

We’re so excited to partner with this year’s Procession of the Species 🐸 This magical celebration of nature, art, and co...
04/30/2026

We’re so excited to partner with this year’s Procession of the Species 🐸

This magical celebration of nature, art, and community takes place on Saturday, May 2nd. It begins at 1 pm with a fun art walk from Bellingham High School to Maritime Heritage Park - where NMA will be hanging out from 2-6 pm. We will sharing about the wondrous world of fungi and helping folks build a mushroom grow kit to take home! Check out more event info at the link in our bio.

Should be a grand time - hope to see you there!

In May, NMA is offering its first ever tempeh making class!What is tempeh? It is a fermented soybean food, especially p...
04/23/2026

In May, NMA is offering its first ever tempeh making class!

What is tempeh? It is a fermented soybean food, especially popular in Indonesia. The fermenting organism is the fungus Rhizopus oligosporus. Fungal mycelium binds the beans together into a solid block. It has a mild, somewhat nutty and somewhat funky flavor. You can find it in grocery stores near the tofu. Unlike tofu, it readily absorbs any sauce or flavoring. Most people like it! Other beans like black beans can also be fermented, but this class will use only soybeans, the traditional way.

The class will be offered twice in May: on Saturday the 9th and Saturday the 23rd, from 2:30-5:30pm both times, at the Chuckanut Center in Fairhaven.

In the class you will:

-Learn: What is tempeh: origins and cultural context.
-Have a taste!
-Learn basics of fungi, mold, and Rhizopus oligosporus biology.
-Be provided all necessary materials, except some kitchen utensils and incidental items.
-Build your own durable incubator from cardboard boxes and insulating material, and take it home.
-Prepare beans for incubation, learning details you need for success.
-Receive a detailed instructional document.
-Leave the class with incubating soybeans which will complete fermentation the following evening.
-Receive a small supply of tempeh “starter” so you can make a few more batches.

The course fee is a sliding scale from $25 to $45 including sales tax.

To heat and monitor your incubator you will need an electric extension cord and a probe thermometer. If you don’t already own those, you can purchase them for an additional $16.

There is a limit of 10 students per session. We will try to disable the registration form when a session is full.

Register for the class on our NMA website (link found in bio).

Photo descriptions: freshly fermented tempeh, udon noodles with tempeh and wild meadow mushrooms (Agaricus campestris), and tempeh taco.

Meeting Announcement 📢 (first meeting of the season!!) Presentation by Danny MillerDNA: The Secret History of Mushrooms....
04/09/2026

Meeting Announcement 📢
(first meeting of the season!!)

Presentation by Danny Miller

DNA: The Secret History of Mushrooms. What are the biggest surprises that recent studies in DNA have shown us about the (until now) secret history of mushrooms on the planet?

When: Thursday, April 9th
Where: The Cordata Park Pavilion
Time: 6:30 pm

Danny first got interested in Mushrooms in 2007 after seeing strange colourful creatures in the forest all the time while hiking and skiing off trail, and finally decided he had to find out what they were. The more he learned, the more interesting they seemed, and it just hasn’t stopped.

Danny is an Education Co-Chair for the Puget Sound Mycological Society, helping to design and teach the curriculum for the club’s mycology classes. He is also the club Librarian, and ID Committee co-ordinator and an emergency poisoning point person for King County Washington Poison Control. Danny also belongs to the PNW Key Council, a group of amateur and professional mycologists and is a co-author of MycoMatch (formerly MatchMaker) with Ian Gibson, the free PNW mushroom ID program for the PC. He has a big interest in taxonomy and figuring out where all of the mushrooms fit into the fungal tree of life, and is currently trying to collect the DNA of every PNW species to determine which still need names. You can follow the results at www.alpental.com/psms/ddd

This event is open to the public so please share with anyone who might be interested! Hope to see you there!

Hi Mushroomers! We are gearing up for an exciting year ahead - stay tuned for events to come 👀 we post here about most m...
02/18/2026

Hi Mushroomers!

We are gearing up for an exciting year ahead - stay tuned for events to come 👀 we post here about most meetings and workshops but the best way to be sure you don’t miss anything is to check our website, make sure your membership has renewed, and join our Google group!

Here are some photos from last year to tide you over for the next couple of months🍄‍🟫

Meeting Announcement 📢 Presentation by Steve Trudell When: Thursday, November 13thWhere: The Cordata Park Pavilion Time:...
11/12/2025

Meeting Announcement 📢

Presentation by Steve Trudell

When: Thursday, November 13th
Where: The Cordata Park Pavilion
Time: 6:30 pm

Dr. Steve Trudell is an affiliate curator in the Burke Museum Herbarium at the University of Washington and scientific adviser for the Puget Sound Mycological Society. He has been photographing and identifying mushrooms and studying their ecology for nearly 50 years and is the author of Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest, and co-author of Mushrooms of Alaska, Mushrooms of the National Forests in Alaska, and Tricholomas of North America.
Steve has taught mycology, botany, and other environmental science courses at the University of Washington, The Evergreen State College, and other institutions. His research interests include mycorrhizal ecology and the roles of fungi in forest nutrient cycling.

He will be giving a presentation titled, “Mushrooms of The Last Frontier”.

Alaska is known as The Last Frontier, and the State’s motto certainly is apropos when considering knowledge of its mushrooms, which can occur in eye-popping abundance. In mid-October, Timber Press released Mushrooms of Alaska, the first guide to the State’s mushrooms that combines broad coverage, large color photos, and up-to-date accurate taxonomy. But there’s still much more to learn. Come hear about Alaska’s pioneering mycologists—Virginia Wells and Phyllis Kempton—and get a virtual introduction to the habitats and fungi of the Land of the Midnight Sun (or Noontime Darkness).

This event is open to the public, feel free to bring a friend! Hope to see you there!

Wow — what an incredible day! The 33rd Annual Wild Mushroom Show was a huge success. For the second year in a row, we we...
10/13/2025

Wow — what an incredible day! The 33rd Annual Wild Mushroom Show was a huge success. For the second year in a row, we welcomed over 1,000 visitors! We’re thrilled to welcome all our new members! If you’re thinking about joining or have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out — we’d love to have you in the mix!

Thanks to a few days of rain and the dedication of everyone who went out collecting, we also had an impressive mushroom haul.

An event like this truly takes a village, and in the aftermath, we’re feeling deeply grateful for everyone who helped make it happen.

We’ve got more events coming up soon — stay tuned!

A huge thank you to everyone who lent a hand yesterday - and to all who came out to enjoy the show! This year’s event wa...
10/13/2025

A huge thank you to everyone who lent a hand yesterday - and to all who came out to enjoy the show! This year’s event was truly something special, and we’re so grateful for the incredible community that makes it all possible. More photos coming soon!

We’re endlessly thankful for our incredible community — especially the volunteers who bring this event to life each year...
10/10/2025

We’re endlessly thankful for our incredible community — especially the volunteers who bring this event to life each year. This group is truly something special, and The Wild Mushroom Show really captures the passion and curiosity that connects us all.
Can’t wait to see you all Sunday! 🍄❤️

Raffle Donors:
Aslan Brewing Company
Living Earth Herbs
Backcountry Essentials
Iwanamoka
Flying Bird Botanicals
Cascadia Mushrooms
Trader Joess

NMA Wild Mushroom Show Speaker Highlight #3 •••Daniel Winkler presents: Choice Edible Mushrooms from the Cascades to th...
10/10/2025

NMA Wild Mushroom Show Speaker Highlight #3
•••
Daniel Winkler presents: Choice Edible Mushrooms from the Cascades to the Himalayas
>> 3 pm - 4 pm

Daniel grew up collecting and eating wild mushrooms in the Alps and is sharing his enthusiasm as a mushroom educator, photographer and guide. The Puget Sound Mycological Society (PSMS), which he joined in 1996, was instrumental in exposing Daniel to mycology and inspiring him to bend his career towards mushrooms. Daniel published his “Fruits of the Forest – Field Guide to Pacific Northwest Edible Mushrooms” (available at mushroaming.com), a product of a lifetime of mushroom hunting with the last 29 years spent in the PNW. As an ecologist and geographer, Daniel focused on High Asia towards researching Tibet’s enormous fungal economy. His ethno-mycological Cordyceps research has been featured in National Geographic, New York Times, The Economist, NPR, BBC World Service, etc. In the last decade, Daniel started exploring neotropical fungi. With his travel agency, MushRoaming, Daniel has been organizing mushroom focused eco-adventures since 2007, current destinations are Bhutan and Colombia.

Join us in the Boathouse at Zuanich Park this Sunday to hear this presentation!

NMA Wild Mushroom Show Presenter Highlight #2•••Langdon Cook presents: From Patch to Plate>> 1:30 pm - 2:30pm Langdon C...
10/09/2025

NMA Wild Mushroom Show Presenter Highlight #2
•••
Langdon Cook presents: From Patch to Plate
>> 1:30 pm - 2:30pm

Langdon Cook is a writer, instructor, and lecturer on wild foods and the outdoors. His books include Upstream, a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, The Mushroom Hunters, winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award, and Fat of the Land, which The Seattle Times called “lyrical, practical and quixotic.” Cook’s work has been nominated for two James Beard Awards, a Society for Environmental Journalists award, and a Pushcart Prize. He has been profiled in Bon Appetit, WSJ magazine, Whole Living, and Salon.com, and his writing appears in numerous magazines, newspapers, and online journals, including National Geographic, Outside, Eating Well, and Seattle Magazine, where he was a regular columnist for a decade.

Join us in the Boathouse at Zuanich Park this Sunday to hear this presentation!

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Bellingham, WA
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