This event has past. Stay tuned for next Fungi Festival: Aug. 30, 2026!
Thank you everyone who showed up in the rain for a celebration of mushrooms!
Would you like to help start a Fairbanks Mycology Society? Send a message to Christin via her website: mushroomchristin.wordpress.com.
Invite your mushroom peeps to the fest. Share the festival flyer with your friends, family and co-workers. You know they are going to love the fungi festival!
Fairbanks Fungi Festival 2025
Sunday, August 24th
Festival Schedule
11 am - Welcome
11:30 am - Land Acknowledgement
12 pm - Mushroom Identification Talk with Christin Swearingen
12:45 pm - Children's Foray
1:30 pm - Costume Parade
1 pm - Talk by Guest Mycologist Shannon Adams
2 pm - Mushroom Identification Talk with Noah Siegel
3 pm - Live Music by Vitamin U!
4 pm - Crossing the Heartland jazz band
Ongoing Events
The Festival Information booth has Stickers!
Mushroom Crafts For Kids!
Displays of Local Mushroom Specimens, opportunity to have your specimens identified by mycologists!
Over 30 Mushroom Art and Crafts Vendor Booths!
Food Trucks!
Would you like to Volunteer?
We need help with setting up, children crafts, sorting mushrooms, and helping experts tag fungi for the UAF collection.
Volunteer with this form
Volunteers can help in the field, as well at the display table. Join Christin Swearingen to collect mushrooms and lichen, sort collected mushrooms by shape (gilled, boletes, polypores, toothed fungi, clubs & corals, puffballs, cup fungi, other) and line display trays with moss.
Saturday morning foray: 10 am --noon at Birch Hill Rec Area, meeting at the warming hut
Saturday afternoon foray: 2-4 pm at Chinook Conservation Park, meeting across the street from the Chena Pump Transfer Site.
Rain or Shine
Sorry no dogs allowed
Our goal is to have displays ready before the festival begins, freeing our experts to answer questions at the festival. Let us know if you can help by filling out this form: https://forms.gle/X81vfSm94K9Re1uv6
The Fairbanks Fungi Festival is run with volunteer effort. Your donations allow us to bring experts to Fairbanks, purchase supplies for children activities, and pay for the venue rental. You can support FFF by donating online, @chagacoop
Fairbanks has its very own Fungi Festival!
Free, open to the public, non- smoking and family friendly.
Why we are so crazy about fungi that we have Fairbanks Fungi Festival?
Did you know there are more species of fungi than plants and animals combined? So far scientists have documented about 150,000 species out of a possible 2-4 million species. Fungi can help humanity and the environment in so many ways. We eat and drink fungi! Fungi is used make yeast breads, blue cheese, soy sauce, cider, beer and wine. Fungi are used in medicine (i.e. mycophenolate, used to prevent tissue rejection, and rosuvastatin, which reduces cholesterol), and new compounds are being discovered all the time. Fungi have the potential to clean up oil spills, purify watersheds, and metabolize radiation! Now that's eco-friendly! Fungi are also a potent solution to food security issues. They are one of the cheapest, yet most nutritious forms of protein on the planet, can be cultivated ethically, and with very little impact on the environment. Fungi can turn local waste products into building materials and other materials, providing eco-friendly, insulative, and fire resistant products.
We are comprised of the local folks of Fairbanks that love everything fungi! We welcome fungi fans to join the festival team!
