Find us vending alongside other talented folks on this cute day!

Join us for our 4th Annual Queer Handmade Holiday Art Sale🏳️‍🌈❄️

On Saturday November 16th from 10am - 4pm at the Allendale Columbia School (Big Gym)

519 Allens Creek Rd. Rochester NY

Come out and support over 50 local queer artisans and vendors. Check off everyone on your list with gifts for the whole family this holiday season, it’s sure to be a blast!! We can’t wait to see you all there❤️

OUR FIRST ATHENS GREECE WORKSHOP COMMENCES!

If you’re in the area come to our first FREE offering with the Mouries Collective

Scroll down on the link pages below to check ut details!

Ella!

https://mouriescollective.org/events/

Join Olga Tzogas and some special guests for a walk in the woods and taste, sample some of our findings and some cultivated mushrooms as well.

Rain or shine .

We spend a few hours together looking for mushrooms, touching plants, smelling our way through the forest and listening for bird songs who will be serenading us throughout our time together. After our walk in the woods, we gather, cook, relax and taste our findings and other local delights.

Exact location is given after registration

General location is within the WESTERN Finger Lakes region of New York.

11-3pm

- Children 13 and Under Free

- Dogs are welcome but we do recommend they stay home because they can trample findings and cause cute yet-distractions.

Find us in the woods! In Rochester NY!

Learn what is actively growing and belonging in the ecosystems around you!

Pack your own snacks as we have our walk during lunch time.

Exact location given upon registration

Rain date is Oct 5th

Join Olga Tzogas and some special guests for a walk in the woods and taste, sample some of our findings and some cultivated mushrooms as well.

Rain or shine unless weather is hazardous. Tentative Rain date would be in Sept 21st.

We spend a few hours together looking for mushrooms, touching plants, smelling our way through the forest and listening for bird songs who will be serenading us throughout our time together. After our walk in the woods, we gather, cook, relax and taste our findings and other local delights.

Exact location is given after registration

General location is within the WESTERN Finger Lakes region of New York.

10-1pm

- Children 13 and Under Free

- Dogs are welcome but we do recommend they stay home because they can trample findings and cause cute yet-distractions.

Join Olga Tzogas and some special guests for a walk in the woods and taste, sample some of our findings and some cultivated mushrooms as well.

Rain or shine unless weather is hazardous. Tentative Rain date would be in August 17.

We spend a few hours during the Summer Solstice weekend together looking for mushrooms, looking plants, smelling our way through the forest and listening for bird songs who will be serenading us throughout our time together. After our walk in the woods, we gather, cook, relax and taste our findings and other local delights.

Exact location is given after registration

General location is within the Finger Lakes region of New York.

10-1pm

- Children 13 and Under Free

- Dogs are welcome but we do recommend they stay home because they can trample findings and cause cute yet-distractions.

Spring Mushroom + Nature Walk in the Finger Lakes!

Exact location given upon registration, space is limited.

Join Smugtown Mushrooms and their team for a guided walk in the woods! Learn about who and what is growing around you to better understand the ecology. We are all part of these ecosystems, lets connect and learn about our relatives in the forest.

Topics covered: Mushroom life cycle, mushroom, plant + tree identification, birds, forest ecology + more!

April 20, 2023 1-3 pm Rochester, New York

May 11, 2023 1-3pm Finger Lakes Region

Exact location is given with registration

rain or shine

no refunds

Find us with our buddies in PHILLY!!

more info about the day and what it benefits can be found HERE

Spring Mushroom + Nature Walk in Rochester, NY!

Exact location given upon registration, space is limited.

Hey Albuquerque!

Join us March 16, 2024 for a Mushroom Tasting + Flight event! 

Join Olga Tzogas and Julian Scanlon as they showcase a delicious array of home-style cooking featuring a variety of mushrooms and recipes from their respective homelands, Italy and Greece. We hope to honor the flavors and essences of Italian and Balkan cuisine and we will feature 5 kinds of mushrooms!

We will also have tastings of various mushroom teas, including homegrown Reishi and ethically harvested Turkey Tail and Chaga.  

Tickets are priced at $35-55 dollars sliding scale, offering you an unforgettable culinary adventure. 

Join us to enjoy the expressed complex flavors of Oyster Mushrooms, Lions Mane, Shiitake, Maitake + of course, last but not least the wild gathered local King Boletus aka Porcini!

Don't miss this opportunity to savor the flavors of Italy and Greece while sipping the medicinal properties of mushrooms. 

Reserve your spot now and join us for an evening of gastronomic delight! 

Dinner location given upon registration.  ABQ/UNM Main Campus area

For inquiries and reservations, contact Olga or Julian

About the Chefs!

Julian Scanlon is a passionate advocate for local food systems, highlighting human health and the health of the planet. 

Growing up in Italy from the ages of five to eighteen, he developed a deep appreciation for the unique flavors and nutritional value of food grown close to home. 

After returning to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he was born, Julian turned to fermenting his own foods as a way to maintain a healthy diet after struggling with the lack of nutritionally dense foods and the overabundance of processed foods. 

Through experimentation and research, Julian discovered the numerous health benefits of fermentation and its positive effects on gut health. He is a skilled fermenter, creating delicious and healthy foods such as kombucha, sauerkraut, kimchi, vinegars, and more. 

Julian also has a passion for growing plants and believes that growing his own produce and teaching others to do the same fosters a deeper connection to the food we eat and the environment we live in. 

Whether foraging for mushrooms or tending to his garden, Julian is dedicated to honoring nature's gifts by helping to steward our ecosystems and human systems back to a place of health and homeostasis. 

To keep up with Julian's projects, follow @ecological_projects on Instagram. For inquiries, you can contact him at official.ecological.projects@gmail.com or (505) 9339498.

Introduction to Medicinal Mushrooms + their Preparations

Together we go through various ways we can access the profound ways mushrooms can help us build immunity and strengthen ourselves and our communities.  We go over several varieties of mushrooms that are known for their beneficial properties.  Learn techniques and recipes to take home with you.

We navigate the complex web & ancient world of medicinal mushrooms.  Explore how they grow in nature then, how they nurture us in return.  Explore the deep history humans have with medicinal mushrooms & their power to heal. Identifying uses, and ways to prepare them. We will demonstrate the vast options and diversity of properties within just a handful of selected varieties.  The most common and popular we will look at & work with is the Reishi or Lingzhi mushroom, the legendary ‘Mushroom of Immortality.’  

Journey through other divine healers of the wild; the Turkey Tail mushroom, Lion’s Mane mushroom, & the common culinary mushroom, the Shiitake.  Learn about how each of these mushrooms exists in nature, how we can cultivate a working relationship with them in our health regimens and of course keep them sacred and wild where they deserve to remain.  Raising awareness of the growing market for these healers and what it means for us to do our part to grow our own, and explore the ethics of this huge growing industry. 

-Learn the basic life cycle and biology of mushrooms and their Fungal relatives.

-Learn how mushrooms exist in nature to better understand how they grow, and how we can apply these methods to our lives, agriculture, health regimens and more.

-Journey through a few varieties of medicinal mushrooms that are commonly found in stores.

-We go over methods we can prepare and use these medicinals for both food and/or medicine. 

-Tastings of long brewed Chaga tea and freshly extracted tinctures + oxymels.

For this class offering we are asking for a sliding scale donation between $40-80.

Class offering is a donation based, sliding scale program. No one is turned away for lack of funds. Please donate based on your overall financial ability and privilege. Proceeds go directly to the visiting educator, Olga Tzogas of Smugtown Mushrooms and Greater Good Ojai to continue their important work hosting events and community classes.

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WE LOVE DOING THIS EVENT!

Find us there with lots of extracts, mushrooms grow kits, books, goodies and other various tidbits for the mushroom and Earth loving loved one and self.

Learn how to grow wine cap mushrooms with Olga Tzogas of Smugtown Mushrooms and take home spawn for your own bed

Olga from Smugtown Mushrooms is popping up like a mushroom in Austin and for a special edition of the Mycelial Supper club at Angel’s house.

The evening will showcase different ways we love preparing mushrooms from a mediterranean, mostly Greek folk influenced menu. That means, fresh ingredients, olive oil and lots of herbs. We will talk about food, fungi and culture.

Our hidden joy and talent is that we LOVE cooking, and especially we love cooking for others and offering tasty, different ways to prepare and serve mushrooms. 

This meal will consist of different plates of tastings, mezes (tapas), and other nourishing delights.

Olga Tzogas has been cooking her whole life, she is the daughter of Greek immigrants who still to this day run a diner in upstate New York, food has been a core part of her lived experience.  Cooking mushrooms in different ways helps spice up basic recipes and lets us expand our abilities to feed ourselves and loved ones.

Expect this menu to feature mushrooms in every course offering and shared in ways you have never had them prepared.  Sticking to her roots, of being born and raised in a Greek diner, expect the food to be cozy, filling and grounding with strong variations of classic dishes of freshness from her ancestral Greek + Balkan dishes.  

Lot of our food this evening will be flame roasted and exposed to coals and fire.  

This meal is served family style.

We will try our best to accommodate everyone's dietary needs. Respond with any restrictions.

Percentage of the proceeds from the dinner tickets goes towards supporting the New Moon Mycology Summit, a volunteer run, non-profit gathering for communal learning around environmental + social justice through the lens of fungi. The collective behind the organizing, are fueled by the passion for alternative spaces within mycology, ecological + societal justice and education. You will be supporting the future mycelial growth of the New Moon Mycology Summit.

Address is given upon registration.

Together we go through various ways we can access the profound ways mushrooms can help us build immunity and strengthen ourselves and our communities.  We go over several varieties of mushrooms that are known for their beneficial properties.  Learn techniques and recipes to take home with you.

We navigate the complex web & ancient world of medicinal mushrooms.  Explore how they grow in nature then, how they nurture us in return.  Explore the deep history humans have with medicinal mushrooms & their power to heal. Identifying uses, and ways to prepare them. We will demonstrate the vast options and diversity of properties within just a handful of selected varieties.  The most common and popular we will look at & work with is the Reishi or Lingzhi mushroom, the legendary ‘Mushroom of Immortality.’  

Journey through other divine healers of the wild; the Turkey Tail mushroom, Lion’s Mane mushroom, & the common culinary mushroom, the Shiitake.  Learn about how each of these mushrooms exists in nature, how we can cultivate a working relationship with them in our health regimens and of course keep them sacred and wild where they deserve to remain.  Raising awareness of the growing market for these healers and what it means for us to do our part to grow our own, and explore the ethics of this huge growing industry. 

IN THIS HANDS-ON WORKSHOP, YOU WILL LEARN:

• Learn the basic life cycle and biology of mushrooms and their Fungal relatives

• Learn how mushrooms exist in nature to better understand how they grow, and how we can apply these methods to our lives, agriculture, health regimens and more.

• Journey through a few varieties of medicinal mushrooms that are commonly found in stores.

• We go over methods we can prepare and use these medicinals for both food and/or medicine. 

• Tastings of long brewed Chaga tea and freshly extracted tinctures + oxymels.

Each participant leaves with an in-process half pint jar containing 80% alcohol of reishi. After a week, you can extract that into a tincture and use it as-is or perform the double extraction step. We will demonstrate three ways to extract and will provide digital links to the step-by-step process.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Olga Tzogas started her love affair with Fungi and plants over 15 years ago, with the help and guidance of family, teachers and community. In 2011, Smugtown Mushrooms was started, which provides cultivation supplies to grow mushrooms, indoors or outdoors, for food or for medicine. Olga has taught hundreds of folks how to grow mushrooms, make medicine and learn about the glory of Fungi and the natural world. Alongside the collaboration of the collective, The Mycelium Underground, Olga helped create the New Moon Mycology Summit in 2018. She was a core organizer for the 2016 Radical Mycology Convergence and the MycoSymbiotics Festival from 2015-17. Annually, Olga returns to her ancestral homeland to guide small groups immersed in land based and traditional knowledge of the country of Greece, highlighting the fungi and plants there.