Help us document the different fungi within White Pine Hollow State Forest. The advanced mushroom foray is for those with a good knowledge base in hunting for and identifying fungi. Registration is required!

Join Caleb Musser, Vice President of the Prairie States Mushroom Club, and Dave Murcia, Director of the Wapsi River Center, in an exploration of the grounds looking for fall mushrooms.

Online registration is required. To register, go here: https://iascottctyweb.myvscloud.com/webtrac/web/iteminfo.html?Module=AR&FMID=63890242

Unlike most of our events, this one is not open to the general public. To join this foray you must be a PSMC member or affiliated with the boy scouts (but you can become a member at the event for $10). After holding our annual club meeting (~30m) we will explore the reservation grounds looking for fall mushrooms!

Celebrate Iowa’s natural world with this new hands-on festival showcasing the wild and wonderful flora and fauna of our region, as well as outdoor recreation activities. Grab food from local food trucks and enjoy a day spent exploring Johnson County’s Kent Park.

The Prairie States Mushroom Club will have a table at the Get Outside! festival in Iowa City. We’ll be on a mission to find every fungus in City Park! Stop by to say hello and help us look for fungi.

Event host Jeff Patch chairs PSMC's foray committee. Patch, also a Dubuque Arboretum & Botanical Gardens volunteer, plans educational opportunities such as this for Iowans to learn more about mushrooms and how to forage while avoiding toxic fungi.

Help us document the different fungi within the UD Wolter Woods & Prairie. This advanced mushroom foray is for those with a good knowledge base in hunting for and identifying fungi. Registration is required!

Discover the wonder world of fungi at Palisades-Kepler State Park! The Prairie States Mushroom Club and Friends of Palisades-Kepler will lead participants through the park in search of interesting and edible fall mushrooms, such as chicken of the woods and puffballs.

Fungarium! opens the first week in September and runs through November. The exhibit features over two dozen specimens, most collected during a single month in Jefferson, Washington and Van Buren counties. The Carnegie Museum is located at 112 S. Court St. in Fairfield, IA. Hours are Tuesdays thru Fridays 12-4 and Saturdays 11-3. Admission is free.

Join Caleb and Jeff at Scott County Park for a fruitful fungi foray! Meet at the Buffalo Bill Shelter.

Help Bur Oak Land Trust record mushrooms for the first time at Corriell Nature Preserve and contribute to the Prairie States Mushroom Club sequencing project.

We’re thrilled to announce the Summer Continental Mycoblitz happening this Tuesday, August 13th, from 10 am to 12 pm at UD Wolter Woods and Prairies!

Join Ross Salinas and the Prairie States Mushroom Club for a foray at beautiful Swiss Valley Nature Preserve, hosted by Dubuque County Conservation. The event is free but registration is required.

Do you have mush love for fungi? This beginner guide to mushroom hunting will connect you with other trusted experts in foraging.

Join us in a mushroom foray with Sarah DeLong-Duhon from the Prairie States Mushroom Club.  There will be a short lecture at the Library followed by a walk along Clear Creek Trail in search of edible and interesting mushrooms.
This event is free and hosted by the Coralville Public Library. No registration is required. The presentation will be held in Meeting Room A.

We will meet up at Palisades-Kepler State Park and look for teeny tiny fungi! You'd be surprised how many cute mushrooms you walk past every day, we will show you how to slow down and look. Having a way to take macro photos is advised, but not required.

Join us for a Father’s Day fungi fest at Hickory Hill Park, and bring your tykes! This will be a kids-focused mushroom hunt, beginning with mushroom storytime and ending with a look at some fancy tech (mushrooms under a microscope)! Be prepared to trek into the woods and bring home some fungal souvenirs.

Join the Prairie States Mushroom Club for a foray at Brinton Timbers on June 15, 10am-12pm.

Come with us to explore the magical world of tiny things often missed! We will focus on finding and photographing the tiniest fungi we can, but we will find bugs and slime molds along the way. Having a way to take macro photos is advised, but not required.

We’re going on a mushroom walk! Join Botanical Garden staff and mushroom experts from the Prairie State Mushroom Club on a leisurely stroll through Brown’s Woods Forest Preserve, located near Valley Junction. Throughout the hike we will identify mushrooms and plants that we discover. Registration is required.

Join us at the Macbride Nature Challenge! Make sure to register here: https://uiowa.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_djtHglSr2gOblOK

Even if you can’t make it, you can still participate in the City Nature Challenge from April 26-29, more info here: https://sustainability.uiowa.edu/city-nature-challenge

Join Prairie States Mushroom Club and fellow fungi enthusiasts for a foray at Draco Hill Nature Farm in Cedar County.

Join Prairie States Mushroom Club and fellow fungi enthusiasts for a foray at McFarland Park in Ames.

Join Prairie States Mushroom Club and fellow fungi enthusiasts for a foray at Wildcat Den State Park in Muscatine Sun., March 10 at 10 a.m.

Join us Thursday evening for our first ever webinar! Club president Sarah will talk about species of edible fungi you can find in the fall, from the unmistakable edibles to more advanced foraging fare. If you’ve been looking to expand your mycological palate and learn how to safely forage, look no further!

Note that this foray is taking place at Hickory Hills Park in Black Hawk, IA; not Hickory Hill Park in Iowa City, IA!

This is a park is new to the mushroom club, but Google Maps show a mature woods so mushroom hunting should be good.