Save the Date for the 5th annual Fairbanks Fungi Festival:
Aug. 28-30, 2026!
Would you like to join the Fairbanks Mycology Society? Sign up for the email list here:
FairbanksMycologicalSociety@groups.io.
Want to be a mushroomy vendor? Sign up here: https://forms.gle/vne9ZU1asiDpHmKZ9
WE WILL NEVER ASK YOU FOR A VENDOR FEE-- beware of scams! (There is a suggested 10% donation AFTER the event).
Fairbanks Fungi Festival 2026
Sunday, August 30th - Ester Community Park
Festival Schedule (Subject to Change)
11- Welcome
12 - Mushroom talk
1 - Mushroom costume parade
2 - Mushroom talk
3 - Live music: Crossing the Heartland
4 - Live music: Vitamin U
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 form coming soon.
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 Recreation Area, meet at the warming hut
Saturday afternoon foray: 2:00-4:00 at the Chinook Conservation Park, meet across the steet from 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.
Space is limited, RSVP form coming soon!
(Stay tuned for this year's swag)
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!
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!
