Join us for a full day of foraging, learning and nature loving!

Mushroom Mania is back! Come spend the day exploring the fascinating world of fungi with ADKX. There will be family-friendly activities, guided mushroom walks, cooking demos, and more!

MAKERS MARKET 2025 NOTA SUMMER FESTIVAL
Join us on Saturday August 9, 2025 from 10am -5pm for our Viciously Crafty Summer Makers Market, part of the NOTA Summer Festival! Enjoy exciting and creative vendors. This is a space for local artists, crafters, creators, and Viciously Crafty folk alike to gather and support creativity and the Rochester Neighborhood of the Arts.

Our alternative Makers Market provides an exciting shopping experience that welcomes patrons to support quality makers, artisans and small businesses. The diverse crew of vendors is hand-curated for each event, creating a memorable and celebrated experience!

The market is free and open to the public! This event will operate in the Neighborhood of the Arts, around the block and Inside the courtyard of “The Factory Building”, which is home to amazing local businesses like Stacy K Floral, Winter Swan Coffee, Scratch Bakeshop, The Fleurish Candle Co. Old Pueblo Grill and more vendors will be on the block around Russell and Elton Streets, including inside of 34 Elton Street!

FREE EVENT!

Our Summer Solstice Mushroom Walk +Feast runs June 21, 2025 from 11-5pm $75

The first half of the say we spend in the forest, learning, searching and listening to what is being sung by birds and fungi alike.

After we feast and enjoy a mushroom centric meal together.

The meal is 3 courses and the menu will be shared soon.

Most, if not all dietary needs will be met.

There is an option to ONLY attend the walk which runs 11-2pm $32

Or an option to ONLY attend the meal which runs 230-5pm $45

Children under 12 are free

rain or shine

no refunds

“Store credit” or swapping someone in your place is perfect

Tentative Menu:

First Course:

Seasonal Salad - VEGAN

Main course:

Home cooked Mushroom centric entree ( MAYBE homemade Greek Mushroom + Wild Green Pie !! ) AKA Spanakopita with Mushrooms! Ya heard of it?!? :) if we have Gluten-free folks coming we will not be making this dish to accommodate to everyone but expect something yummy yum!

3rd course: LIVE DEMO’d Wild mushroom cooking! Over a fire, in a cast iron like every good dish!

Fresh Fruit!

Find us vending our wares in Canandaigua June 14th with a lovely group of folks ! Free entry!

Spend time with your Mother.…Mother Earth that is :) or both!

Come on a cute little sweet mushroom and wild plant walk in peak Spring beauty season

This walk is in the area of Springwater, NY and is within 1 hour from Rochester, NY

Join us for an evening of learning about the glory of Fungi and their medicinal properties!

Our instructor Olga Tzogas will -lead us through various methods by which we can access the profound ways mushrooms can help us build immunity and strengthen ourselves and our communities

-go over several species of mushrooms that are known for their beneficial properties -teach techniques and recipes to take home with you

-help participants get creative with recipes, and treating mushrooms like Turkey Tail, Lions Mane + Reishi as the ingredient to inspire a DIY, intuitive approach to making extracts, like vinegars, tinctures + oxymels Together we will explore and open your palate by mixing the gastronomic + functionality of fungi and their allies.

-Make and take home a 4oz extract starter of a Lions Mane medicinal mushroom extract that is alcohol free!

*** PS - If you have time to come early, check out Audubon's new seed library and plant guide in the visitor center! Or walk the trails before the event

*** This event is free and open to everyone. The PMC is funded entirely through donations. If you are able, please consider giving an amount of your choice at checkout.

By registering for this event you grant the Philadelphia Mycology Club to use photographs and/or video of you taken at the event in publications, online, and in other communications related to the Philadelphia Mycology Club.

Find me speaking in Atlanta, Georgia!

Free Presentation about the Mushrooms + Culture of Greece!

SCUMS monthly ​meeting: Monday, May 5th

Olga Tzogas will present:

Mushrooms + Culture of Greece

Experience and take a visual journey into the diverse and lush natural world of Greece.  Ancient forests, traditional land-based living still exist, providing a rich culture weaved within nature itself.  Connections to fungi are ever present and it’s only gaining more attention. Take a look into the relationships the locals have with certain species of mushrooms, plants, & their recipes for use. Olga Tzogas of Smugtown Mushrooms, based in Rochester, NY returns to her ancestral home to learn and connect deeper to the mycelial communities, and the people still practicing traditional ways of life or those creating a new.  Greece is typically pictured by bluebird skies and matching crystalline seascapes, but Greece is home to lush dense forests of several Oak species, Chestnut, Beech, Fir, Sycamores and Pine to name a few.  The life they harbor is exquisite.  See the similarities of fungal life that are shared on both continents.  Together we see a visual depiction of the funga, flora + fauna of this diverse ecological haven of the country of Greece. 

Find us vending and sharing our creations amongst amazing herbalists and creators!

Come learn from the forest! See for yourself the awakening of the blessed Spring and witness the beauty of the ephemeral plants of our woodlands native plants…..and of course mushrooms. .

This time of year is precious and we are lucky enough to have city forests to experience this sacred time of year.

Walk begins at 11am on April 26 in Rochester, NY.

Exact location is given a couple days before the class begins

Join me for a free presentation about my work I do in my ancestral homeland of Greece

Mushrooms + Culture of Greece!

Ill also have some offerings for sale like Lions Mane Grow kits, extracts and more.

Join us!

6:30 pm at the Community Library of Dewitt & Jamesville, 5110 Jamesville Road in Syracuse, NY

Join us for an afternoon of learning about the glory of Fungi and their medicinal properties!

Together we go through various ways we can access the profound ways mushrooms can help us build immunity and strengthen ourselves and our communities. We go over several varieties of mushrooms that are known for their beneficial properties. Learn techniques and recipes to take home with you. Getting creative with recipes and treating mushrooms like Turkey Tail, Lions Mane + Reishi as the ingredient to inspire a DIY, intuitive approach to making extracts, like vinegars, tinctures + oxymels.

Together we explore and open your palate by mixing the gastronomic + functionality of fungi and their allies.

Make and take home a 4oz extract starter of a Lions Mane medicinal mushroom extract that is alcohol free!!

We are grateful to Alex at Arise Botanicals for hosting us and connecting us with the venue and co-host Proyecto Cultural. We are honored and excited to share in community in Lincoln, Nebraska!
Cost of class is sliding scale!

$25-60..Please pay what you can! not sure how that works…scroll down to see where you fall into the sliding scale spectrum

See you there!

Join us at the lovely and important community resource of Red Root Acupuncture + Herbs in Albuquerque, New Mexico!

Class space is limited to only 12 people so please sign up and secure your spot!

Everyone will go home with their own non-alcoholic medicinal mushroom extract!

Join us for a POP-UP + Mushroom Tasting alongside our friends at the Mobile Moon Co-op

Our website is being funky and wont let us update the time …this days events run from 12-6pm

Join us!

Suggested Donation is $10-20

Join Olga Tzogas + mycologist, artist + chef Willoughby Arevalo for a many course meal centered around fungi and mushrooms found in Greece and various recipes that express our love for the land and the traditional cooking of the Southern Balkans + Eastern Mediterranean.

We will be offering several cooking demos during this meal…everyone goes home with skills to create new cuisines and flavor profiles to enjoy with loved ones!

FREE !! Presentation on the Mushrooms + Culture of Greece with the Vancouver Mycological Society

I'll be joining Oregon Mycological Society for their monthly meeting and sharing about the Mushrooms + Culture of Greece!

ITS FREE + OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

Together we go through various ways we can access the profound ways mushrooms can help us build immunity and strengthen ourselves and our communities. We go over several varieties of mushrooms that are known for their beneficial properties. Learn techniques and recipes to take home with you. Getting creative with recipes and treating mushrooms like Turkey Tail, Lions Mane + Reishi as the ingredient to inspire a DIY, intuitive approach to making extracts, like vinegars, tinctures + oxymels. Together we explore and open your palate by mixing the gastronomic + functionality of fungi and their allies.

Everyone makes and takes home a 4oz medicinal mushroom extract that is alcohol free.

Excited to join the community for an afternoon of medicinal mushroom medicine making!

Mushrooms + Culture from Greece with a cooking demo bonus!

Take a visual journey into the diverse and lush natural world of Greece.  Ancient forests, traditional land-based living still exists, providing a rich culture weaved within nature itself.  Connections to fungi are ever-present and they’re only gaining attention. Take a look into the relationships the locals have with certain species of mushrooms, plants & some of their associated recipes.

Where: Sebastopol Grange. Here is a zoom link if you’d like to join remotely.
6000 Sebastopol Ave, Hwy 12, Sebastopol, CA 95472.

When: Potluck at 6pm. Announcements at 630pm. 7pm Presentation.

Olga Tzogas started her love affair with Fungi and plants over 15 years ago, with the help and guidance of family, teachers and community. In 2011, Smugtown Mushrooms was started, which provides cultivation supplies to grow mushrooms, indoors or outdoors, for food or for medicine. Olga has taught hundreds of folks how to grow mushrooms, make medicine and learn about the glory of Fungi and the natural world. In collaborating with The Mycelium Underground, Olga helped create the New Moon Mycology Summit in 2018. She was also a core organizer for the 2016 Radical Mycology Convergence and the MycoSymbiotics Festival from 2015-2017. Annually, Olga returns to her ancestral homeland to guide small groups immersed in land based and traditional knowledge of the country of Greece, highlighting the flora and funga!

Come fall in LOVE with the power and care of medicinal mushrooms!

Take home your own 4oz alcohol-free extract with attendance!

Together we go through various ways we can access the profound ways mushrooms can help us build immunity and strengthen ourselves and our communities.  We go over several varieties of mushrooms that are known for their beneficial properties.  Learn techniques and recipes to take home with you.

We navigate the complex web & ancient world of medicinal mushrooms.  Explore how they grow in nature then, how they nurture us in return.  Explore the deep history humans have with medicinal mushrooms & their power to heal. Identifying uses, and ways to prepare them. We will demonstrate the vast options and diversity of properties within just a handful of selected varieties.  The most common and popular we will look at & work with is the Reishi or Lingzhi mushroom, the legendary ‘Mushroom of Immortality.’  

Journey through other divine healers of the wild; the Turkey Tail mushroom, Lion’s Mane mushroom, & the common culinary mushroom, the Shiitake.  Learn about how each of these mushrooms exists in nature, how we can cultivate a working relationship with them in our health regimens and of course keep them sacred and wild where they deserve to remain.  Raising awareness of the growing market for these healers and what it means for us to do our part to grow our own, and explore the ethics of this huge growing industry. 

-Learn the basic life cycle and biology of mushrooms and their Fungal relatives.

-Learn how mushrooms exist in nature to better understand how they grow, and how we can apply these methods to our lives, agriculture, health regimens and more.

-Journey through a few varieties of medicinal mushrooms that are commonly found in stores.

-We go over methods we can prepare and use these medicinals for both food and/or medicine. 

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https://lamushrooms.org/