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Puget Sound Mycological Society Members’ Page Follow PSMS on Facebook Follow PSMS on Flickr Search psms.org www. Home About PSMS History, Mission & Bylaws Presidents The Patrice Benson Golden Mushroom Award Membership Benefits of Joining Join Online Renew Online Join/Renew by Mail Members’ Page Events Wild Mushroom Show Research Projects Membership Meetings Field Trips Mushroom Maynia Survivors’ Banquet Event Registration Education Poisoning Classes & Workshops ID Clinics Eating Wild Mushrooms Reading List Fungi on Postage Stamps Resources Spore Prints Newsletter Foundation & Grants Harvesting Rules Library Recipes Links Contact Contact Info Directions Donate Welcome to PSMS! We are an organization that encourages the research, education, cultivation, hunting, identification and the cooking of mushrooms. With over 2,400 members, PSMS is one of the largest mycological societies in the country. We share our knowledge about mushrooms through meetings, classes, workshops and field trips. Please join us at a meeting or become a member today! Join PSMS Online Latest PSMS News The Puget Sound Mycological Society is an ALL volunteer non-profit organization. PSMS does not have ANY employees. Fall 2023 "Hildegard Hendrickson ID Clinics" at CUH are done for the season! Thank you to everyone who participated and helped out. See you in the spring!Hildegard Hendrickson Free Public ID Clinic The spring 2024 ID clinics are now in session Mondays from 4pm to 7pm at CUH starting Apr. 29th and we expect them to last through June 3rd. For more information click here. As this is subject to change, please always visit our home page to make sure the clinics are on before coming. 2023 PSMS Annual Wild Mushroom show Click here to download show info This year’s show chairs Derek Hevel, Milton Tam, and Marion Richards are happy to announce our annual PSMS fall Wild Mushroom Show will be Oct. 28 (12-6 pm) and Oct. 29 (10 am-5 pm) at Shoreline Community College, 16101 Greenwood Avenue North, Shoreline, WA. The show is our chance to share with the general public our knowledge of and enthusiasm for the fungal kingdom. Let’s get ready to amaze the public with all the colors, shapes, and sizes of fungi we bring in for display. We will also need YOUR mushroom specimens for our display tables. The strength of the mushroom season has yet to reveal itself, but we know it’s an odd year with heat waves and drought. We don’t know when the rains will arrive, but we’re all crossing our fingers for a well-timed fruiting in order to put on the best show. We encourage you to self-organize for a collecting trip in the day or two before the show. Come mid-October, we strongly encourage members to forage far and wide to collect specimens wherever they can be found. As of now, experts have suggested collecting display specimens in the foothills of Mount Rainier, the Olympic Peninsula, and the Washington Coast. However it is impossible to predict when and where our mushrooms will flush. We encourage you to self-organize for a collecting trip in the day or two before the show, and bring your collections to Shoreline Friday around 5pm. Our show page has all of the details.Check out the PSMS Blog! Click here to read it.PSMS Inclusivity Statement For over fifty years, the Puget Sound Mycological Society (PSMS) has nurtured collaboration amongst its members for an understanding and appreciation of the wide diversity of mushroom species in the Pacific Northwest. We also depend on a diverse membership to support our mission to foster the understanding and appreciation of mycology as a hobby and a science. In recent months, as systematic inequality in U.S. society is revealed to a broader audience, it becomes clearer that inequality imposes barriers on marginalized groups to participation in a wide variety of activities. PSMS opposes all barriers that limit participation in mycology. PSMS and its board members support a more diverse, inclusive, and welcoming organization where all people, especially those who are underrepresented in our organization and society at large, can enjoy mushrooms and all of the activities associated with them. We realize this will be an on-going conversation and are looking to our members for suggestions on ways to increase diversity, inclusivity, and welcoming. Thank you as we join together to make this long-overdue journey toward systemic equality! Mushroom MAYnia will be held this year at the Phinney Center Community Hall on Sunday May 19th! Family Fungi Fun! Mushroom MAYnia showcases safe cultivation, hunting and harvesting methods and arts and crafts all created from our fungi friends. Educational and fun for the whole family, including foraging tips, cultivation information, nature walks, mushroom talks, truffle flavored popcorn and fungi crafts! More info here . $5 per family, $3 per individual. Sunday May 19th, 12:00pm to 4pm at the Phinney Center Community Hall.PSMS Annual Show - Saturday October 27 and Sunday October 28 It’s our biggest event of the year and it’s coming this weekend! Click here to read all about it! Ben Woo Memorial Foray 2018 - Friday October 19 thru Sunday October 21 The Puget Sound Mycological Society has decided to make the Ben Woo Memorial foray an annual event. This year’s foray will be held the same location as the last 2 years. The facility is called Black Diamond Camp at Mt. Rainier and is located about 30 miles east of Enumclaw just off Route 410 near the Crystal Mountain ski area turn-off. It is surrounded by magnificent old growth forest with unlimited habitat easily within driving distance and mushrooms just outside your door. But there is no need to drive anywhere with plenty of forest to explore within walking distance of the lodge. The cost of the event is $180/person. The package includes two nights’ accommodations and 5 meals. This is a non-refundable registration fee. Friday night our presenters will be the extraordinarily gifted mycologist Noah Siegel plus author and culinary artist Langdon Cook. Saturday night’s speaker will be PSMS’s expert mushroom identifier and nice guy Danny Miller. In addition we will hear from the truffle whisperer Alana McGee. Saturday there will be organized full and half day forays. Foray descriptions and sign-up sheets will be available Friday night after dinner. All-day forays will be provider a sack lunch and will be back by 3:00 pm so those folks can still enjoy the dinner. We will be offering several workshops. Sign up for individual workshops on-line when you register. All registrants must be PSMS members. Click here to register Visit the PSMS Library The PSMS library, with about 750 different books – including Ben Woo’s personal collection – is available for members to reserve online. Learn more about the libraryFeatured Content If You Suspect a Poisoning Contact a physician or Washington Poison Center: 1-800-222-1222 More Poison Information Spore Prints Newsletter Spore Prints is the monthly newsletter of PSMS containing announcements of coming events and speakers, plus a variety of tidbits, trivia, recipes, and research developments. Spore Prints Archive Harvesting Rules Washington state is divided into numerous federal, state, local and Native American jurisdictions. Learn the proper rules for each jurisdiction. Harvesting Information Upcoming Events Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - 7:30pm Monthly Meeting Ron Post - PSMS Turns 60! Click here to join this meeting virtually. This spring the Puget Sound Mycological Society turns sixty - that’s right 60! - years old. Please join us at our next general meeting Tuesday, May 14th, when one of our estimable past presidents (Ron Post, 2004-2006) tells a story that is one that all members, past and present, should be proud of. From the founding members in 1964, through the decades, PSMS volunteers and members have a story that is both as unique and diverse as our membership. Doors open at the Center for Urban Horticulture at 7:00pm. Ron Post will...