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Workshops & Events

We are currently making our 2024-2025 schedule for workshops, seminars, and gatherings!!

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Our calendar is open and ready to be filled with beautiful days filled with sharing the wonder and love of fungi with you!

We are currently for hire for presentations, classes, cooking demos, workshops + more.

click HERE to see the full list and details about our offerings

Are you part of a club or crew of folks that want to learn how to better create relationship with mushrooms and fungi? Need sharper wild identification skills? Want to get your hands in the Earth and build mushroom beds?!? Ready to learn about the medicinal potential of Fungi?.oh the glory of Fungi, let me share them with you! AMAZING! LETS DO IT!

Email me directly to get a conversation started if you want to host us or collaborate!

smugtownmushrooms@gmail.com

MORE INFO WHEN YOU CLICK THROUGH THE IMAGE BELOW!


Having trouble signing up for a class or offering?

Technology sometimes doesnt work went we need it to! Email us at smugtownmushroms@gmail.com to register for a class or offering

Classes hosted by Smugtown Mushrooms, our hosts, third parties + others are all sales final and no refunds unless stated on the specific class information

 
Introduction to Medicinal Mushrooms, their Uses + Applications
Mar
25
6:30 PM18:30

Introduction to Medicinal Mushrooms, their Uses + Applications

Join us at the lovely and important community resource of Red Root Acupuncture + Herbs in Albuquerque, New Mexico!

Class space is limited to only 12 people so please sign up and secure your spot!

Everyone will go home with their own non-alcoholic medicinal mushroom extract!

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Intro to Medicinal Mushrooms + their Preparations
Mar
30
2:00 PM14:00

Intro to Medicinal Mushrooms + their Preparations

Join us for an afternoon of learning about the glory of Fungi and their medicinal properties!

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. Getting creative with recipes and treating mushrooms like Turkey Tail, Lions Mane + Reishi as the ingredient to inspire a DIY, intuitive approach to making extracts, like vinegars, tinctures + oxymels.

Together we explore and open your palate by mixing the gastronomic + functionality of fungi and their allies.


Make and take home a 4oz extract starter of a Lions Mane medicinal mushroom extract that is alcohol free!!

We are grateful to Alex at Arise Botanicals for hosting us and connecting us with the venue and co-host Proyecto Cultural. We are honored and excited to share in community in Lincoln, Nebraska!
Cost of class is sliding scale!

$25-60..Please pay what you can! not sure how that works…scroll down to see where you fall into the sliding scale spectrum

See you there!

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Mushrooms + Culture of Greece FEAST - Vancouver BC
Mar
14
6:00 PM18:00

Mushrooms + Culture of Greece FEAST - Vancouver BC

Join Olga Tzogas + mycologist, artist + chef Willoughby Arevalo for a many course meal centered around fungi and mushrooms found in Greece and various recipes that express our love for the land and the traditional cooking of the Southern Balkans + Eastern Mediterranean.

We will be offering several cooking demos during this meal…everyone goes home with skills to create new cuisines and flavor profiles to enjoy with loved ones!

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PDX- Fungi For Food + Wellness
Mar
8
1:00 PM13:00

PDX- Fungi For Food + Wellness

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. Getting creative with recipes and treating mushrooms like Turkey Tail, Lions Mane + Reishi as the ingredient to inspire a DIY, intuitive approach to making extracts, like vinegars, tinctures + oxymels. Together we explore and open your palate by mixing the gastronomic + functionality of fungi and their allies.

Everyone makes and takes home a 4oz medicinal mushroom extract that is alcohol free.

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SOMA-Mushrooms + Culture of Greece
Feb
21
6:00 PM18:00

SOMA-Mushrooms + Culture of Greece

Mushrooms + Culture from Greece with a cooking demo bonus!

Take a visual journey into the diverse and lush natural world of Greece.  Ancient forests, traditional land-based living still exists, providing a rich culture weaved within nature itself.  Connections to fungi are ever-present and they’re only gaining attention. Take a look into the relationships the locals have with certain species of mushrooms, plants & some of their associated recipes.

Where: Sebastopol Grange. Here is a zoom link if you’d like to join remotely.
6000 Sebastopol Ave, Hwy 12, Sebastopol, CA 95472.

When: Potluck at 6pm. Announcements at 630pm. 7pm Presentation.

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. In collaborating with The Mycelium Underground, Olga helped create the New Moon Mycology Summit in 2018. She was also a core organizer for the 2016 Radical Mycology Convergence and the MycoSymbiotics Festival from 2015-2017. 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 flora and funga!

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San Diego - Love + Power of Medicinal Mushrooms
Feb
14
6:00 PM18:00

San Diego - Love + Power of Medicinal Mushrooms

Come fall in LOVE with the power and care of medicinal mushrooms!

Take home your own 4oz alcohol-free extract with attendance!

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. 

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ABQ-Fungi Recipes for Food + Wellness
Feb
5
6:00 PM18:00

ABQ-Fungi Recipes for Food + Wellness

Join Olga Tzogas from Smugtown Mushrooms in beautiful Albuquerque at the Lost Cultures Tea Bar. We are stoked to join in community with Ryan from Lost Cultures as he has truly made a space where small hand crafted drinks can go beyond our expectations and booze doesnt have to be in the recipe. Speaking of recipe! The night of February 5th catch us offering a small hands-on demo that illustrates how we can use basic mushrooms and other ingredients from the grocery store and make beneficial extracts that are shelf stable, healthy and delicious.

All participants take home 4 ounces of mushrooms extract. This extract will be alcohol free.\

Registration is open, join us!

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4th Annual A Queer Handmade Holiday Market
Nov
16
10:00 AM10:00

4th Annual A Queer Handmade Holiday Market

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❤️

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Wild Mushroom + Plant Walk + Wild Food Tasting
Oct
5
11:00 AM11:00

Wild Mushroom + Plant Walk + Wild Food Tasting

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.

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The West Almond Stomp!
Sep
6
to Sep 8

The West Almond Stomp!

Music, Arts + Mycology festival for all!

Based in West Almond,NY
Sept 6-8th 2024
Camping-Vendors-Interactive Art Displays -Workshops - Mycology Forays

We teach on Saturday!!..Saturday there is a ful day of mycology classes!

We plan to do a Medicinal Mushroom Class! Join us and go home with skills to make your own medicine from wild and cultivated mushrooms!

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Mid Summer Wild Mushroom + Plant Walk + TASTING
Aug
17
10:00 AM10:00

Mid Summer Wild Mushroom + Plant Walk + TASTING

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.

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Summer Solstice Mushroom + Plant Walk + Wild Food/Mushroom Tasting
Jun
22
10:00 AM10:00

Summer Solstice Mushroom + Plant Walk + Wild Food/Mushroom Tasting

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.


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SPRING MUSHROOM + NATURE WALK- FINGER LAKES
May
11
1:00 PM13:00

SPRING MUSHROOM + NATURE WALK- FINGER LAKES

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

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