Saturday Nov. 5th schedule
A Beginner's Guide to Mushroom Identification
The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America
A Beginner's Guide to Mushroom Identification
One of 2019's most popular festival speakers, Jon Sommer returns to the Wild Rivers Mushroom Festival in 2022 to once again teach beginners the ins and outs of mushroom identification.
Jon holds a bachelor’s degree in botany from Humboldt State University and master’s degrees in botany and plant pathology from the University of California, Davis. He has studied mushroom identification with notable mycologists including Drs. David Largent, Orson Miller, Harry D. Thiers, and Daniel Stuntz.
Jon has led mushroom forays and taught classes on mushroom identification across the U.S. for more than 45 years. He has been a member of the Colorado Mycological Society since 1993 and currently serves as a Past President and Trustee.
Foraging On Oregon's South Coast
The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America
A Beginner's Guide to Mushroom Identification
Jesse Dolin has been fascinated with harvesting food from the wild since he was a young boy. A self-taught naturalist and amateur mycologist, Jesse is enthusiastic to share his knowledge and passion for harvesting and cooking wild ingredients from the land and sea. His childhood on the Oregon Coast was filled with crabbing, clamming, fishing and foraging and his passion for wildcrafting continues to this day in his hometown of Yachats, Oregon.
When Jesse is not busy working to raise the bar for the visitor experience in his role as Central Coast Destination Coordinator for the Oregon Coast Visitors Association, he can be found at home in his garden with his fiancé, or out in nature 'reaping what he does not sow', celebrating the incredible abundance of this coastal paradise.
For more about Jesse, read the article entitled Coastal Abundance.
The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America
The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America
The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America
Join award-winning author Langdon Cook for a “patch- to--plate” tour of the commercial wild mushroom industry. You’ll travel to some of the Pacific Northwest’s most famous patches, meeting the pickers, buyers, and chefs who make this the largest all-cash business in North America. Q&A and book signing to follow.
Langdon is a writer, instructor, and lecturer on wild foods and the outdoors. His books include Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table (Ballantine, May 2017), a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America, winner of the 2014 Pacific Northwest Book Award, and Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager, which The Seattle Times called “lyrical, practical and quixotic.”
Langdon lives in Seattle with his wife, poet Martha Silano, and their two children.
Sunday Nov. 6th schedule
A Beginner's Guide to Mushroom Identification
Preserving Your Bounty! A Mushroom Preservation Workshop
Preserving Your Bounty! A Mushroom Preservation Workshop
One of 2019's most popular festival speakers, Jon Sommer returns to the Wild Rivers Mushroom Festival in 2022 to once again teach beginners the ins and outs of mushroom identification.
Jon has led numerous mushroom forays and nature walks (including two for the WRMF in 2019!) and has taught classes on mushroom identification across the U.S. for more than 40 years. He has been a member of the Colorado Mycological Society since 1993 and currently serves as a Past President and Trustee.
Preserving Your Bounty! A Mushroom Preservation Workshop
Preserving Your Bounty! A Mushroom Preservation Workshop
Preserving Your Bounty! A Mushroom Preservation Workshop
Get ready to fall in love with wild mushrooms! Trent and Kristen Blizzard, owners of www.modern-forager.com and authors of Wild Mushrooms: A Cookbook and Foraging Guide, will share their favorite tips for finding, storing and preserving common and unusual wild mushroom finds.
Both are active community members: Trent is the President of the North American Mycological Association, and Kristen is a member of the Wisconsin Mycological Society board.
They will talk about how to successfully utilize your harvest, including practical information on transporting, cleaning, and preserving your finds. One of the best things about cooking wild mushrooms is that every time you open your dried caches, their unique aroma recalls your foraging experience, creating an immediate and visceral connection back to the forest. There is no finer way to appreciate food. A book signing will follow in the main hall.
Wild Mushroom Cookery with Chef Chad
Preserving Your Bounty! A Mushroom Preservation Workshop
Wild Mushroom Cookery with Chef Chad
Chad Hyatt is a classically trained chef and the author of The Mushroom Hunter's Kitchen - reimagining comfort food with a chef forager. Chad has spent the last decade working in restaurants and private clubs around the San Francisco Bay Area, where he frequently demos and teaches wild mushroom cookery at private and public events.
Chad spends his free time hunting for and learning about mushrooms, along with seeking out new techniques and traditional ethnic recipes to apply to them. He will be demonstrating some of his favorite wild mushroom cooking techniques, followed by a tasting, Q&A and a book signing.