Each autumn, Mount Pisgah Arboretum hosts the Mushroom Festival. In partnership with the Cascade Mycological Society and Lane Community College, the arboretum offers festival fungi enthusiasts a chance to learn about mushrooms, enjoy fresh pressed cider, listen to live music, and more. The festival is a fundraiser for the arboretum.
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The Mushroom Festival featured a large display of locally foraged mushrooms, with notes about edibility, flavor profiles, taxonomy, and more.
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The exhibit hall at the Mushroom Festival features hundreds of local mushroom species, including these Deadly Galerinas.
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The mushroom exhibit was a collaborative effort between the Cascade Mycological Society and the Biology department at Lane Community College. The groups foraged around the area for mushrooms and worked to have them properly identified.
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The Mushroom Festival draws thousands of guests each year. The White Oak Pavilion houses the large mushroom exhibit, and guests can see other, smaller mushroom displays around the festival.
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Children visited a special booth with dedicated activities for kids, like painting mushroom pictures, stamping, felting, clay, and more.
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Guests enjoyed hot cups of fresh-pressed apple cider, complete with live apple press demonstrations.
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Artists of all ages were invited to create unique scarecrows for the official scarecrow display and contest.
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Guests were invited to "look within" this mushroom house at the Mushroom Festival in Eugene, Oregon.
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A peek inside a "mushroom house" with miniature mushroom figures and furniture at the 2024 Mushroom Festival in Eugene.
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Mushroom Festival guests could tour the grounds of Mount Pisgah Arboretum in horse-drawn carriage rides.
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Festival goers were able to wander the trails around Mount Pisgah Arboretum, where they could spot mushrooms growing in the wild
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