photo by Erika Untch

Hello fellow fungiphiles! We here at the Telluride Mushroom Festival are, always working hard 365 planning away and organizing the event to bring you the greatest mycology event imaginable. Here’s a list of people and topics that we have already confirmed for our Cultivation and Remediation section! As always this is subject to change but ask anyone who has been before and you’ll soon discover just what a treat you’re in for.

Preliminary List of Presenters in Cultivation and Remediation Tracks

Tyson Allchin
Kitchen Cultivation
Liquid Culture Basics

Tradd Cotter
Mycobrewery
Shroomin’ Off the Grid
Mycoremediation for Everyone

Stephen Russell
The Spore
Slaying the Enemy – Contaminants in the Mushroom Culture

Chris Ricci
Edible Mushrooms of Eastern and Southern Africa
Simple Mushroom Log Inoculation

Scott Anderson
Growing mushrooms in the desert

James Weiser, Graham Steinruck, Bert Matthews
Melvina Project
Beginners Lab
Advanced Lab
’Mycophagy: The Culture of Eating Fungi’

Katie Holgate
Pilot Study: Restoring understory vegetation after forest mastication practices using mushroom mycelium

Ron Spinosa
Mushroom Alchemy
Mycology 101—The Crash Course

Anna McHugh
Crazy About Mushrooms: Mushroom Lore
Using Mycelium for Biofiltration

Scott Koch
Growing Oyster Mushrooms on Straw
Fungi in Permaculture

Devon Enke
Oil Eating Mushrooms!

Joseph Krawczyk and Mary Ellen Kozak
Cultivation of Specialty Mushrooms on Natural Log Based Substrates
Small Scale Commercial Spawn Production