Schedule

2026 Annual Foray | Aug 07, 11:00 AM – Aug 09, 1:00 PM Blackwater Falls State Park, Davis, WV

Fri, Aug 07

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Registration Begins & Silent Auction Dropoff
Hallway to Conference Room
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Opening Remarks
Harr Conference Hall
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Kristen Wickert - Diversity of the Phyla of Fungi
Harr Conference Hall
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
RESERVATION REQUIRED Koji 101 Workshop
Shay Room (ID Room)
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
RESERVATION REQUIRED Mycological Lessons
Davis Room
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Shannon Nix-Fruiting Bodies as Living Histories: Mushrooms & Legacies of Land Use in the Western "Little Lakes" of NY
Harr Conference Hall
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Pizza & Mushroom Tasting
Harr Conference Hall
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Richard Tehan: Cordyceps of North America: The Ubiquitous and the Rare
Harr Conference Hall

8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Registration & Silent Auction Dropoff
Hallway to Conference Room
8:05 AM - 8:30 AM
Walks Protocol & Safety Talk
Harr Conference Hall
8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Mushroom Walks
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Drop off mushrooms/Break/Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Alan Bessette: Gasteroid Fungi of the Eastern United States and Canada
Harr Conference Hall
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Table Talk
TBA
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Mushroom Tasting Dinner
Harr Conference Hall
7:00 PM - 7:10 PM
Silent Auction Ends/Raffle Announced
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Special Performance by the String Beans
Harr Conference Hall
8:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Oyster Bucket Cultivation Part 1 (optional) Straw Steaming
Out Back
8:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Puff Ball
Harr Conference Hall

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
RESERVATION REQUIRED Tempeh with Mary Mary
Harr Conference Hall
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
RESERVATION REQUIRED Oyster Bucket Cultivation
Out Back
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
RESERVATION REQUIRED Bioluminescent Sunprint/Sporeprint Workshop
Davis Room
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
RESERVATION REQUIRED Infuzions - Culinary Mushroom Infusions and Mocktails
Shay Room (ID Room)
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Farewell & Mushroom Compost Ritual
TBA