Join us for our third annual Fungadelphia Festival!!

Rain or Shine!

Register Here

This year’s festival will feature: 

🍄 Guided walks on the trails at the Schuylkill Center led by PMC volunteers plus Identification table

🪩🎸 Live Music from Street Beans!

Workshops and games:

🖼️  Mushroom and nature themed art from local vendors

🌈  Make Your Own Naturally Dyed Mushroom with Laura Hricko

🔬  Mold and Microscopy examination table

⚗️  Myco Alchemy: Tincture Making 101 with Aubrey Inkster

🥘  Myco Tasting Demo with executive chef, Luke Smithson

Lectures: 

💛 Dog Vomit: Stories of Earth’s Most Common Slime Mold

🗣️ Lee Stark

⏰ 11:45

If you’ve encountered a slime mold, it’s likely been a bright yellow Fuligo septica, also known as Dog Vomit. Charismatic, widely cosmopolitan, and maybe millions of years old, F. septica has found itself at the center of folktales and controversies throughout time. Could Dog Vomit be from outer space? Evidence of witches? Our relationship with F. septica might say more about us.

🔎 In Reverence of the Small: The Korf Forag and Ascomycetology in North America

🗣️ Danny Newman

⏰ 1:30

The Richard P. Korf Memorial North American Ascomcyete Foray was founded in 2023 by parataxonomist and photographer, Danny Newman, to serve as the western hemisphere’s first (and, so far, only) ascomycete-focused mycological event. Newman discsusses the origins, past, present and future of The Korf Foray, as it is colloquially known, as well as some of the Foray’s most taxonomically exciting finds from its first three iterations.

Some important notes on arrival:

• Parking at the center is extremely limited. We highly recommend carpooling with friends, biking in via the Schuylkill River Trail, or taking SEPTA– buses 9 & 27 or regional rail to Miquon Station.
  • If you are driving, you may be directed to overflow parking at Lankenau High School.
    • LHS is approximately 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile to the festival through the trails of the Schuylkill Center. Although these trails are not typically used by hikers, they will be marked with signs to help with navigating to the festivities.
    • We will also have a shuttle this year! Six guests at a time can load up in our minivan, running approximately every 20 minutes from the festival area, to the bus stop at Ridge and Port Royal Ave, Lankenau HS, and back to the festival.
    • Due to the limited capacity of the shuttle, we would encourage those who are able to walk the trails and enjoy time in nature! 

• For those who may choose to walk from the bus stop, please enter the trails at the corner of Port Royal Ave and Hagys Mill Road and make a right. For your safety, please do not walk down Hagys Mill Road. The trails are beautiful!

• The Schuylkill Center does not permit dogs on site at any time. Service animals are welcome, but please leave companion animals at home.

• We hope to not need it, but if necessary, First Aid will be coordinated and/or administered at the Schuylkill Center’s front desk. For non emergencies on the trail, please call the front desk (215) 482-7300. Call 911 for true emergencies.

• Please wear sun protection and sturdy footwear.

Map and Schedule to follow!