2025 Mushroom Workshops
& Guided Foraging Tours

Join us for an exciting weekend of exploration and learning with our hands-on mushroom workshops. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced forager, these workshops will guide you through the incredible variety and beauty of mushrooms, from identification to cooking and beyond. With our $20 weekend pass, you'll have access to all workshops, giving you the perfect opportunity to dig deep into the fascinating world of mycelium. Come for the mushrooms and leave with a whole new appreciation for fungi.

Workshops are in the process of finalization. Check back for more information.

MUSHROOM FORAGING WITH CHRIS FARLEY

MUSHROOM PHOTOGRAPHY

Foraging tour

MUSHROOM FORAGING GUIDED TOUR

Chris Farley
Saturday 9:30am-12:30pm

Saturday 4:00-7:00pm

Sunday 9:30am-12:30pm

Chris was born and raised in Northern California, where the fields, forests, rivers, lakes, mountains, streams, meadows, and ponds were always his back yard. As a kid his main goal in life was to spend as much time as possible outdoors. That goal has not changed. In 2008, he turned to agriculture as a full-time occupation. He managed small farms, Apple Hill orchards, greenhouses, kept honeybees, and leased and operated the late Amigo Bob Cantisano’s Organic Farm in the hills of Grass Valley. Amigo Bob’s sole purpose in life was the pursuit and proliferation of high-quality food production. Amigo Bob was a California legend and powerhouse influence in the field of organic food production. Several years later, Chris' daughter, Maybelle, was born and the never ending, demanding, all-consuming chores of farming collided with the new responsibilities of fatherhood, and lead him in search of a new path.
Three months later, Chris began to hear whispers of mushrooms in the hills. He was at the Bear Valley Market on Highway 49 and overheard a conversation about morels in Georgetown, California. He told a couple friends who he knew had been hunting mushrooms for a few years. A week later Chris and friends were hiking all over Stumpy Meadows with Maybelle in tow every day. Fast forward, he has spent the majority of Spring and Fall seasons in search of edible mushrooms up and down the state of California. Chris and his family have spent the last four years living off grid at the base of Mount Shasta. He hikes thousands of miles annually (with the vast majority of them being on and around Mount Shasta) in the pursuit of edible wild mushrooms and other edible plants.

Chris is excited to have this opportunity to extend his knowledge to people during this mushroom forage, and hopes to create a passion for the hunt like his.

Those who wish to participate in Chris' guided tours must purchase a pass for $100. Registration opens soon.

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Dylan Goldfine-Middleton

Schedule TBD

Born and raised in Southern and Central California respectively, Dylan first came to McCloud on a week-long mushroom foray in the spring of 2010, and he has continued to seek out and study the diverse fungi of our area every year since. Dylan graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2019 with a dual bachelor’s degree in Linguistics and Chinese Language, and subsequently completed his master’s degree in East Asian Studies at Stanford University in 2023, submitting for his graduate thesis a detailed historical commentary and complete annotated translation of the world’s earliest edible mushroom manual, Chen Renyu’s Junpu (1245). Having taken up full-time residency in the town of Mount Shasta in 2020, Dylan currently serves the local community as a volunteer docent at the Mount Shasta Sisson Museum, offering English and Chinese-language interpretive tours to visitors from near and far. Professionally, Dylan works as a language tutor, writing coach, and freelance editor, in addition to his seasonal role as an experienced commercial forager providing gourmet wild mushrooms to restaurants, markets, and private parties across Northern California and Southern Oregon.
dsgmushrooms@gmail.com

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Angelic Garza

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Angelic Garza is passionate about sharing the gifts of the fungi world with humanity. She understands how deeply connected mycelium is with all aspects of the abundance of life on Earth, and how fungi is entangled with our soil, our bodies, and our minds. Angelic participates in the liberation of humanity by teaching and sharing the knowledge of plant medicine, how to forage safely, and how to cultivate mushrooms easily and cheaply. She knows that when people learn to grow their own food, to fish and forage, they find the abundance and freedom that Mother Nature offers to us all. Through her main project, Hunt Over Mushroom Farm in Freestone, Angelic both cultivates mushrooms and creates mushroom cultivation bags for others to learn to grow for themselves. Her gifts are available directly at Bill's Farm Basket in Sebastopol. She has a fantastic FaceBook group she administers, "NorCal Foraging, Fishing, and Plant Medicine," and you can also find her through Instagram @mycoexistence.

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Joseph Sparrow

Schedule TBD

Joseph Sparrow has been an off the grid homesteader in the McCloud area for over 15 years. He is an expert in wild harvesting and plant processing. For this workshop he will be sharing some insight to help you in your search for the elusive morel mushroom.

MUSHROOM PHOTOGRAPHY

Alan Rockefeller

Schedule TBD

Workshop description coming soon1

Alan Rockefeller is an American mycologist from who specializes in fungi photography, microscopy, DNA barcoding, and taxonomy. Rockefeller currently serves as chief mycologist for Mimosa Therapeutics, a private equity funded biotech company that manufactures therapeutic psychoactive alkaloids on a commercial scale. National Geographic described Rockefeller as "one of the most well-known mycologists studying psilocybe species. He can rattle off Latin names faster than most people can understand them and has a near-encyclopedic knowledge of mushrooms on the west coast of the U.S." Rockefeller collects and classifies "known and possibly new types of psilocybin and muscimol mushrooms. In addition, through "phylogenetic and microscopic analysis, he has identified several species not described in the scientific literature.

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2025 Mushroom Workshops & Guided Foraging Tours

Joseph Sparrow has been an off the grid homesteader in the McCloud area for over 15 years. He is an expert in wild harvesting and plant processing. For this workshop he will be sharing some insight to help you in your search for the elusive morel mushroom.

2025 Mushroom Workshops
& Guided Foraging Tours