MSSF Annual Fungus Fair
A Celebration of Wild Mushrooms
Save the Date! Sunday, December 6, 2026
El Camino High School
1320 Mission Rd, South San Francisco, CA 94080
Tickets may be purchased at the door with cash, or Digital Wallet. If you don't like waiting in line, an EventBrite ticket gets you through the admission gate the fastest.
Workshops may sell out before fair day; purchasing tickets in advance is advised.
The Mycological Society of San Francisco Fungus Fair includes the latest collection of expertly identified fungi collected in various locations in the Bay Area. These annual collections constitute a 50-year record of the early winter fungal diversity in our area. This historical information may become an important contribution to science as climate change affects our local ecosystems.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, when the first rains tease up the chanterelles and porcini, fungus lovers head to the Fungus Fair.
- Date: Sunday, December 6, 2026
- Time: 10:00am to 5:00pm
- Location: El Camino High School,
1320 Mission Rd, South San Francisco, CA 94080
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- The location is right across the street from South San Francisco BART station
- There is ample parking
Things to do at the fair...
- Lectures and Workshops - the 2026 line-up is a work-in-progress, to be updated soon!
- FROM Lectures 2025:
David Arora, Tomas Garrett, Reggie Harris, Christopher Hobbs, Chad Hyatt, Mai Lovaas, Kathi Meier,
- Workshops (2025): JR Blair, Eleana Hsu, Jack Laws, Alan Rockefeller
[Workshops require a separate add-on ticket, in addition to your general admission ticket.]
- Creative and hands-on mushroom activities for people of all ages - Make mushroom-themed cards, ornaments, rain sticks, collages, hats, clay and felted sculptures, sun-prints and more… Unleash your inner mushroom fanatic at the Craft Zone!
- Naturalistic displays of more than 300 species of locally collected fungi
- Identification table - bring your specimens to find out the species!
- Educational tables on varied subjects such as lichens, medicinal mushrooms, myco-remediation, cultivation, ecology, psychedelic fungi, dyes from fungi, toxicology, edible mushrooms, and more...
- Microscopes and spore prints
- Vendors with fun mushroom products
- Mingle and meet other mushroom loving people
- Come and try a bowl of delicious mushroom soup
- Book signing by the authors
Past Fairs
The Mycological Society of San Francisco has been hosting 1 or 2 Fungus Fairs each year since 1969. Fairs have been held in San Francisco County, Alameda County, San Mateo County, and Marin County. Historical information is available about previous Fungus Fairs:
