Thank you to all the volunteers who pitched in to help with the Exploratorium’s fantastic After Dark “Wondrous Fungus” event on Feb 6th! It was a terrific and well attended event and I was thrilled to get to be a part of it and talk all things fungal with curious attendees. With the collections from our MSSF volunteers and BAAM volunteers we were able to have an impressive diversity of species at the display tables. So, thank you to everyone who collected, ID’d, manned the MSSF table or just came to represent the club and get the word out that MSSF is here! Great job and I look forward to this super fun event next year!
 

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Save the Date notice! We will be having our fabulous Volunteer Appreciation Lunch Sunday April 27th to thank all our hardworking Fungus Fair Volunteers!! It will once again be held in Golden Gate Park and we will provide lunch, games and good times!! Keep an eye out for the official invitation late March/early April!

Early spring is just about my favorite time of year. Everything is getting greener, plum blossoms are littering the forest, and the mushrooms are growing. I’ve also seen some pretty amazing local waterfalls after the rains. I hope that some of you have had a chance to go traipsing through a little mud to enjoy our natural world.

Remember that MSSF is a 100% Volunteer run society! Without people stepping up, our historic mushroom club would not exist. We would like to thank all our volunteers, and what better way to do that than to feed them! And we have fun together! Volunteer Appreciation Day is going to be Sunday, April 27th. If you signed up as a volunteer for the 2024 Fungus Fair, you will receive an invite. If you did not sign up for the 2024 Fungus Fair, but you did volunteer for MSSF in 2024, please reach out to volunteer@mssf.org to let us know why you should be on the invitation list.

Have a great green March everyone!

Hello everyone,

Thanks to everyone who signed up for the February foray. There was also a mushroom cultivation workshop on March 1st. On March 22nd, MSSF will provide an MSSF Education table at the Randall Museum's Annual Science Fair. Hopefully, if all works out, there will be an agar making class in April. So, please keep an eye on the MSSF calendar for events! 

At the Lafeyette Public Library this past week, there was a talk about mushrooms having a bigger role in feeding the world in a more sustainable manner. So, don't forget to check your local libraries for educational talks that might interest you.

Enrique Sanchez
MSSF Educational Chair

The mushroom season has been generous this year, and we want to give you a chance to celebrate by challenging your artistic creativity!  
 
For the month of March, we encourage you to put your art skills to the test in celebrating the theme of SPRING! 
 
What makes you think of spring? Is it the hedgehogs and yellow foots that start popping out from the ground? Or the sudden bloom of flowers and plants that accompany these fungi? Maybe the oysters that begin sprouting out of decaying trees? We want to see what type of art the spring inspires you to create! 
 
You can use any artistic medium you’d like: pencil, charcoal, digital, watercolor, photography, woodwork, any tools you choose to express a visual of mushrooms in the springtime. We just ask for no AI-generated art - this is a chance to exercise your own creative skills and get inspired to do mycological artwork. 
 
Post your work on Instagram and tag us @myco_sf so we can see! Or Facebook at Mycological Society of San Francisco. You can even send them to us at art@mssf.org and we’ll post it on our social media! 
 
We hope this inspires you to make some fun mushroom art!