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Ohio Morels - April 25, 2010 - Found 15 today and left at least 10 to grow. I have found them starting on the 25th or 26th of April for the last 15 years no matter what the weather is or if everyone is saying they are finding them earlier-it is always the same for me. Michael K -Athens ,Ohio

The 7th annual Spores ‘n’ More Festival is scheduled for April 23-24 with events set in Bethany, Findlay, Sullivan, Windsor, and Shelbyville, IL.

The highlight event is the mushroom hunt Saturday morning with awards presented to the most, the smallest, and the biggest mushroom in each division as well as overall Grand Champion.

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Saturday APRIL 24
Fun for Everyone
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FUN - FRESH - EXCITING - DELICIOUS
Can you imagine hunting without a gun..
… and without a limit?

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Visit historic Mansfield Village for this annual favorite! Mushroom Hunt, Mushroom Auction & contest for the Biggest Mushroom all this weekend. The Festival Car Show & awards ceremony will take place on Sunday. Festival Foods all throughout town plus unique shoppes & vendors provide great shopping. Plan to take a tour of the Mansfield Roller Mill plus scenic views of the Mansfield Covered Bridge &
waterfalls.

Camping available at Mansfield Parke. Fees are $15/night & includes 20-amp service hookups, water & access to modern bathroom & shower house. Reservations recommended.

For more festival information, call 765.344.1889.

Schedule of Events     April 24 - 25     Mushroom Hunt

    April 24 - 25     Mushroom Auction

    April 25     Mushroom Festival Car Show

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20th Annual Mountain Mushroom Festival
April 24 & 25, 2009
Last Weekend in April, Every Year
Irvine, KY

Come Join the Mountain Mushroom Festival this April!
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Brown County State Park will celebrate DNR’s Welcome Back Weekend with the Fourth Annual Morel Mushroom Festival on Saturday, May 1, 2010. It will be a busy day at the Nature Center with a variety of fun events.

10-10:30 a.m. - Welcome and Kickoff at Morel Headquarters
Stop by the big white tent and pick up an agenda for the day, get information about the Spring Blossom Parade, enter the coloring contest, pick up rules for the largest and smallest morel contest, grab a copy of geocache coordinates for locations within the park, and visit the arts and crafts fair.

11 a.m. - 3 p.m. - Hoosier Mountain Bike Association Mini Bike Clinic
Experts from HMBA will be on hand to introduce you to the exciting sport of mountain biking. Bikes and helmets provided so you can ride a small course set up near the Interpretive Gardens at the Nature Center.

11-11:30 a.m. Join Park Naturalist Jim Eagleman at the Nature Center Amphitheater
Learn everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Morchella esculenta, the morel mushroom.

12-2 p.m. - Join “Jack Morel and the Spores” at the Nature Center Amphitheater
 Local rock band made up of some FUNguys. What’s a festival without some foot-tappin Brown County Music?

1-3 p.m. - Morel Sale - In front of the Nature Center
The Friends of Brown County state Park will be selling morels, “just in case you don’t have much luck.” Proceeds will go toward Friends park projects. Special Notes: Supplies are limited! Morels are wild grown and are not subject to regulatory inspection.

2-3 p.m. - Cooking Demonstration
Join our talented Abe Martin Lodge chefs under the big white tent for a lesson in “Morel Cuisine”. Be sure to pick up a free morel recipe sheet compiled by avid ‘shroomers.’

3-4 p.m. - “Discovery of Morel Cultivation” Nature Center Amphitheater
After 200 years of science and studying the elusive morel, someone figured it out. Join biologist Stewart Miller, as he shares this scientific breakthrough. Miller has inoculated elm trees with the morel fungus and will have a limited number of trees available for purchase. Miller received a U.S. patent for this discovery in 2005. For details visit Morel-Farms.com.

4 p.m. - Smallest and Largest Morel Contest and FUNgus Coloring contest winners announced
Please turn in entires to the Nature Center by 3:30 p.m. Prizes will be awarded for the smallest and largest morels found during the festival.

4-5 p.m. - Return to the Wild at the Nature Center Amphitheater
Patti Reynolds and Laura Edmunds, expert raptor rehabilitators, will introduce you to live Indiana birds of prey. Find out what raptors and mushrooms have in common.

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Over 150 pounds of fresh morel mushrooms sold out in one day during Richmond’s 29th Annual Mushroom Festival. This year a bigger supply is expected as well as new events such as a western show and chainsaw carving exhibit. And as always the crowning of a winner in the large morel mushroom contest.

The festival isn’t all about mushrooms, however. There’s over 130 tempting food and craft booths, carnival, parade, Motorcycle Show, Antique Tractor Show, live Christian Music Shows, State Sanctioned BBQ Cook-Off, youth tractor pull, talent contest, 5K FunGus Run, Little Mr. and Miss Mushroom Contest, Beer Garden featuring Teacher’z Pet and more activities sprawling through the historic district during the two-day event.

The Annual Mushroom Festival is held the first weekend of May and we strive to make it the biggest and the best event possible each year. A tentative calendar of events is posted below for the 2010 Mushroom Festival.

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The second annual Stark County Morel Mushroom Festival will be held Saturday May 1, 2010 in Wyoming, IL. at Thomas Park. Wyoming, IL. is located approximately 40 miles from Peoria or Galesburg. Around 60 miles from the Quad Cities and LaSalle, and roughly 150 miles from Chicago. The Festival will feature food, crafts, music, family activities, and a morel mushroom auction.

Vendors can register and set up from 7:00 until 9:00 a.m. If you are interested in being a vendor you can contact: Duke Frisby at: dukefrisby@hotmail.com or call 309-883-3057, or Denny Rewerts at: vistaden_60@yahoo.com . Mushroom sellers can register for the auction from 9:00 until 11:00 a.m. All morels to be auctioned must be put in clear 8 oz. bags, cleaned but not washed. A $2.00 feewill be charged for each bag to be auctioned, payable at sign in. A lottery type drawing will be held to determine selling position ( a little after 11:00 a.m. )

Individuals who are late for the registration will be put at the end of the auction order. After everyone has gone through the order once, another drawing will be held to determine positions for the second round, and so on.

The auction will start at 1:00 p.m. and the festival will run from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., or later.

Thomas Park is located 2 blocks west of downtown and 1 block south. The park features a nice playground for kids and 3 pavilions for free use, and a grandstand for the auction. Pony rides will also be available for the kids. Some of the food items will be pork chops, brats, hot dogs, burgers, along with breakfast items and the popular mushroom soup. If you have lawn chairs, you can bring them, but seating will be provided. See you there!

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Spring brings GREAT things like Mothers Day, Steelhead fishing, beautiful flowers and woodland surprises such as tasteful morel mushrooms with of coarse our annual Mesick mushroom festival.

Mesick Michigan is the mushroom capital in the United States. Come enjoy our adventurous fun filled days, for people of all ages. Carnival rides for the thrill seekers, crafts and hobbies or flea market for treasure hunters, ball games for the players. Several contests for mushroom hunters, lucky duck race, horseshoe toss, horse pull. View our antique car show and Grand Parade. Have your blood pressure or sugar tested before tasting lots of good food like BBQ chicken, baked goods, pasties, a fish dinner or taco night and of coarse the usual fair goodies. Then wash it all down at our beer tent. Look for cash at our money hunt, games for the game boys or girls and (not the hand held kind). But you can walk around holding hands with your loved ones, or try our 5 K walk/run. And for all you mud pie makers as kids. Don’t throw mud with your (words) tongue or your hands. Watch the Mug bog racers throw some really wet earth up into the air. It’s safer this way. So start your engines, let the mud fly, as we ride rides and reach for the sky. The sky truly is the limit for quality family- friendly activities, fun, finds, fast thrills and food at our great hometown festival.

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Saturday, May 8th
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Enjoy the following events:

Arts & Crafts Show at the Lewiston School
Mushroom Tasting
Guided Mushroom Hunt Registration
Pro Mushroom Hunt Registration
Mother’s Day Poetry Contest
Spring Fling Shopping Tour in Lewiston
And much more!

Craft Vendor Registration Form

If you would like to participate in the festival, please contact
Jodi Gordon at 989-786-9730

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We invite you to join us for the 50th Annual National Morel Mushroom Festival: Boyne City, Michigan May 13 through 16 2010

Each May, Boyne City MI fills with hundreds of mushroom lovers from around the country who come seeking that elusive delicacy-the marvelous morel. Found in nearby woods and clearings, morels are favored by those who know their ’shrooms.

Boyne City hosts the National Morel Mushroom Festival and the Boyne Valley Lion’s National Morel Mushroom Hunt each year, and for a few short days, everything is all about mushrooms. Restaurants prepare exotic, morel-laden entrees,  local songsters sing of the morel (click on the player to the left to listen),  secret hunting places (maybe) and recipes (definitely) are shared, and everybody goes on the mushroom hunt. A good year can yield thousands of the mouth-watering treats. But, even when a dry spell or late spring makes morels scarce, morels can be tasted at the ‘Taste of Morels’ and the festival is always fun for everyone.

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28^th Annual Morel Mushroom Festival
Saturday & Sunday May 15 & 16, 2010

Muscoda has the title of “Morel Capital of Wisconsin”. A celebration of this woodland delicacy, The Morel Mushroom Festival, is held every spring the weekend after Mother’s Day. With the average Morel weighing just a few ounces, the festival committee had purchased and sold over 2000 pounds of the woodland treat during one two-week period preceding the festival.

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Czech Village is busy. With flood recovery well underway, businesses and property owners are planning a party, the annual Houby Days Festival. The festival will take place May 14 – 16, 2010 in Czech Village. Events and activities include: Taste of Czech and Slovak, the Egg and Houby Breakfast, a car show, a tractor expo, National Bohemian, Moravian, and Slovak Folk Dance Festival, parade, the crowning of the 2010 Miss Czech-Slovak Iowa Queen, carnival, and much more. Both sides of the river, Czech Village and New Bohemia, are committed to making this a memorable event, and the Houby Days committee hopes you join us as the neighborhoods rebuild.

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25^th Annual Mushroom Festival
a fun packed, two-day event in historic Kennett Square, Pennsylvania on Saturday and Sunday, September 11-12, 2010.  Celebrate the mushroom as well as the beauty, history and excitement of Southern Chester County with music, children’s rides and a variety of entertainment.
$2 Admission for 12 yrs. and older.

Click to view last year’s events.

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The Texas Mushroom Festival
Fiesta de Hongos
October 17, 2009

Madisonville - Mushroom Capital of Texas

Welcome to our Texas Mushroom Festival website. We had a very successful fifth year and are looking forward to an even bigger event this year. We hope you can join us for the Gala Dinner and a whole day of exciting events. Our area chefs will be demonstrating their skills and several Texas wineries will be offering samples of their fine Texas wines.

Monterey Mushrooms will conduct growing demonstrations throughout the day under the Monterey Kitchen Tent. All types of mushrooms can be purchased. Ask their experts any question you want on the growing process, and be sure to try some of their famous mushroom fajitas.

We are proud to have been named “Mushroom Capital of Texas” by the Texas State legislature in 2005.

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