MSSF: Calendar

Calendar

Monday, November 1: Culinary GroupÆs Monthly Dinner: 7:00 PM. Meeting and dinner at the Library of the Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. The theme will be a Lamb Feast. For reservations or information, please contact Phil Brown at (510) 526-4325 or at towltek2000@msn.com Future culinary group dinners (all Mondays): January 10, February 7, March 7, April 4, May 2, June 6, 2005.

Saturday, November 6: Annual Salt Point Foray. Meet at 10 am at Gerstle Cove Campground in Salt Point State Park. Attendees responsible for own campsites and adherence to State Park parking and picking regulations. Potluck cookout Saturday night featuring what you brought plus scads of fresh edible mushrooms collected. Specimen collection discussion Sunday AM. No pre-registration required with event leaders David and Jeanne Campbell. Make like the mushrooms and just show up.

Thursday, November 11-Sunday, November 21: Mendocino Wine & Mushroom Fest. Eleven days and nights of mushroom and wine themed events throughout Mendocino County, including special mushroom dinners, winery presentations, seminars, B&B events, walks & forays, tastings, classes, and much, much more. SOMA members will be doing cooking demonstrations, along with other presentations and public outreach, at the Ford House, in downtown Mendocino, on Saturday November 13. For a complete schedule of Fest events, visit www.gomendo.com or call tollfree 866-466-3636.

Tuesday, November 16: MSSF General Meeting. At the Randall Museum, doors open at 7:00 pm., meeting starts at 8:00pm. Bruce Ing will speak about mxomycetes.

Tuesday, November 16: NAMA Photo Slide Program. Randall Museum. NAMA æs æIntroduction to Fall MushroomsÆ will be shown in the auditorium preceding the General Meeting. The 45 minute program will start at 7:00 pm. For description of the program, November Mycena News.

Friday-Sunday, November 12-14: Mendocino Woodlands Foray. $95 per person, includes private cabin, hot showers and all meals from Friday night through Sunday morning. More info in November Mycena News or contact Norm Andresen at 510-278-8998 or n.andresen@comcast.net.

Friday, Nov. 26-Sunday Nov. 28. David AroraÆs annual Thanksgiving weekend Mendocino Mushroom Foray in Albion. See November Mycena News for details.

Saturday, November 27: Myxomycetes workshop with Bruce Ing. $35 per person, limited to 20 people. For more information, contact John Lennie at jlennie@comcast.net.

Saturday and Sunday, December 4 & 5: Fungus Fair at the Oakland Museum 10-5 Saturday, Noon-5 Sunday. Speakers, cooking and dyeing demos, mushroom oriented vendors, kid art projects, mushroom soup sales, and fungal displays galore. For more information or to be part of the planning committee contact Ken Litchfield at klitchfield@randallmuseum.org, 415-863-7618 or Dan Long at danlong@astound.net, 925-945-6477.

Monday, December 13: Annual Holiday Dinner. 7:00 PM. in the Snow Building at the Oakland Zoo, located at 9777 Golf Links Road, Oakland. For information, please contact Alvaro at (415) 695-0466 or at alvaro.carvajal@sbcglobal.net. For reservations, please mail a check, payable to the MSSF, for $30 per person to Shawn Johnson, 74 Sanders Ranch Road, Moraga, CA 94556.

Saturday, December 18 and Saturday, January 15: Muir Woods Foray. MSSF member Robert Mackler will offer a beginners class and foray. The session will begin at 10am with a slide show/lecture ôMushrooms 101ö and then walk the trails of Muir Woods until 2pm. This program is for adults only. Reservations must be made by contacting Muir Woods at 415- 388-2596. The program is free but there is an admission fee to the park.

Saturday, January 15-Monday, January 17, 2005: SOMA Camp. Featured speaker Dr. Tom Volk, with special guests Gary Lincoff, Paul Stamets and Jim Trappe. For more information visit www.somamushrooms.org or call 707-887-1888.

Tuesday, January 18: MSSF General Meeting. At the Randall Museum, doors open at 7:00 pm.

Friday, February 4-Sunday, February 6, 2005: All California Mushroom Clubs Foray. Albion, California. See November Mycena News for details.

For the most current information on Society events, call the MSSF phone: 415-759-0495. The recording is updated when there are changes.