2025 SOMA Wild Mushroom Camp

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Class & Workshop Schedule

It probably goes without saying, but please remember that classes and workshops are only open to registered campers.
Classes, times, locations, and instructors may change without notice (and probably will!).

Registration

Some workshops and forays have limited space, and require registration on a "first come, first served" basis. You will need your registration ID that was emailed to you when you Registered for SOMA Camp.
Don't remember your registration ID? We can email it to you again.

What Classes have you signed up for?

Complete list of instructors


Friday January 17, 2025

Friday Main Hall Activities
# Time Location Class/Workshop Instructor
  1:00pm-6:00pm Main Hall Friday Arrivals - Check in to SOMA Camp
class info
Staff
Friday Forays
# Time Location Title/Location Leader Register
A 11:00am-2:00pm Meet at Foray Location Sonoma Foray on Friday before Camp!
class info
Dr. Gordon Walker
B 11:00am-2:00pm Meet at Foray Location Pt. Reyes Foray on Friday before Camp!
class info
Staff
Mikhael Selk
C 1:30pm-4:30pm Front Doors of Main Hall CYO Grounds Foray
class info
Staff
Friday Classes
# Time Location Class/Workshop Instructor Register
1 12:00pm-4:00pm Harriman Hall-Rear Knitting with Assigned Pooling: An Amanita Muscaria Shawl
class info
Melanie Perkins
2 12:00pm-4:00pm Harriman Hall-Front Botanical Print with plants and lichen
class info
Mayumi Fujio
Friday Evening Activities
# Time Location Class/Workshop Instructor

Saturday January 18, 2025

Saturday Main Hall Activities
# Time Location Class/Workshop Instructor Register
  7:00am-9:00am Main Hall EVERYONE - Check in to SOMA Camp
class info
Staff
  9:00am-5:00pm Main Hall Silent Auction - Bidding
class info
Rachel Zierdt
  9:00am-4:00pm Spore-Zone Tent Mushroom Identification Tables
class info
George Riner
Mikhael Selk
  10:00am-11:30am Main Hall - Cooking Demo Mushroom Miso Fermentation Class
class info
Eleana Hsu and Kevin Gondo
  12:00pm-1:00pm Main Hall Lunch - Self service by CYO
class info
CYO Services
  1:30pm-3:00pm Main Hall - Cooking Demo From Forest to Plate: Whole Mushroom Cookery from Mycelium to Cap
class info
Rebecca Peizer Peizer Peizer
Saturday Forays
# Time Location Title/Location Leader Register
D 9:00am-12:00pm Front Doors of Main Hall Foray for Mushrooms to Create Pigments
class info
Ang Pohle
E 9:30am-12:00pm Front Doors of Main Hall CYO Grounds Foray for Dye Fungi
class info
Else Vellinga
Mike McCurdy
F 10:00am-12:00pm Front Doors of Main Hall Cultivation Oriented Foray
class info
Ken Litchfield
David Gardella
G 10:30am-12:00pm Front Doors of Main Hall On-Site Truffle Foray
class info
Darvin DeShazer
Saturday Classes
# Time Location Class/Workshop Instructor Register
3 8:30am-9:00am Amanita ORIENTATION (optional)
class info
Staff
4 9:00am-1:00pm Art Shack Magic mushroom lamps
class info
Melissa Jaffray
5 9:00am-12:00pm Harriman Hall-Front Paper Making with Fungi
class info
Marilyn Hornor
6 9:00am-12:00pm Harriman Hall-Rear Kumihimo braiding
class info
Gayle Still
7 10:30am-12:00pm Amanita Funky Fungal Farts: How fungi crop-dust bacteria
class info
Cat Adams
8 1:00pm-4:00pm Harriman Hall-Rear Small Weavings with Mushroom Dyed Fiber
class info
Liz Duckworth
9 1:00pm-4:00pm Harriman Hall-Rear Molding (and casting) Mushies
class info
Meredith Scheff-King
10 1:00pm-4:00pm Harriman Hall-Front Mushrooms To Dye For
class info
Wilder Herbertson
11 1:00pm-2:30pm Amanita Mushrooms and Mother Nature: Timing and Tuning In
class info
Jill Nussinow
12 1:00pm-2:20pm Chanterelle Mushroom Capture, Domestication, and Cultivation
class info
Ken Litchfield
David Gardella
13 2:30pm-4:00pm Amanita Mushrooms for Body, Mind and Spirit
class info
Jill Nussinow
Saturday Evening Activities
# Time Location Class/Workshop Instructor
  4:00pm-6:00pm Main Hall Wine, Cheese, and Convivial Hobnobbing
class info
Staff
  4:00pm-6:00pm Spore-Zone Tent Music in the Tent!
class info
  5:00pm-6:00pm Main Hall Silent Auction - Tables Close every 10 minutes
class info
Rachel Zierdt
  6:00pm-7:20pm Main Hall Dinner Extravaganza!
class info
Jennifer Levine
  9:00pm-10:00pm Front Doors of Main Hall UV Light Foray on CYO Grounds
class info
Alan Rockefeller

Sunday January 19, 2025

Sunday Main Hall Activities
# Time Activity Location Leader Register
  7:00am-8:30am Main Hall CYO Breakfast Service
class info
CYO Services
  8:30am-10:00am Main Hall Pack your Lunch (NO LUNCH SERVED AT NOON)
class info
CYO Services
  9:00am-4:00am Main Hall Mushroom Identification Tables
class info
George Riner
Mikhael Selk
Sunday Forays
# Time Location Title/Location Leader Register
H 9:00am-3:00pm Front Doors of Main Hall SPSP II: Upper Stump Beach (Limit 20)
class info
Aaron Miller
Michael Miller
I 9:15am-3:00pm Front Doors of Main Hall SPSP I: Woodside - Central Trail
class info
Mike McCurdy
J 9:30am-2:30pm Front Doors of Main Hall Bohemia Preserve (Limit 25)
class info
Staff
Jessica Holloway
K 9:45am-3:00pm Front Doors of Main Hall Westminster Woods
class info
David Salomon
L 11:00am-4:00pm Front Doors of Main Hall Truffle tour of Montage Resort, Healdsburg.
class info
Stephanie Jarvis
Sunday Classes
# Time Location Class/Workshop Instructor Register
14 9:00am-12:00pm Harriman Hall-Rear Mushroom Cyanotypes (SunPrints)
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Karen Rusiniak
15 9:00am-12:00pm Art Shack Sketchbook Mushroom Watercolor Journaling
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Sharon Eisley
16 9:00am-12:00pm Harriman Hall-Rear Weave Yorkshire Buttons with Mushroom Dyed Yarn
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Melanie Perkins
17 9:00am-12:00pm Amanita Dying wool samples with lichens
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Janet Heppler
18 9:00am-12:00pm Main Hall Beginning Needle Felting
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Judy Christensen
19 9:00am-12:00pm Chanterelle Follow-up Class to Make Pigments from Mushrooms Gathered on the Saturday Foray
class info
Ang Pohle
20 9:00am-10:45am Amanita Truffles: The Egos, Ecology, and Economics of Cultivating and Hunting Nature’s Nuggets of Gold
class info
Stephanie Jarvis
21 9:00am-3:00pm Dentinum Microscopy for Mycology
class info
Mike Wood
Brian Perry
22 1:00pm-4:00pm Art Shack Linoleum block printing on cards and tea towels
class info
Kathy Yerich
23 1:00pm-4:00pm Harriman Hall-Front Using mushrooms to dye both wool yarn and silk samples
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Janet Heppler
24 1:00pm-4:00pm Harriman Hall-Rear Air dry clay mushrooms
class info
Elizabeth Vermillion
25 1:00pm-4:00pm Harriman Hall-Rear Drawing techniques to make your mushrooms realistic and identifiable
class info
Holly Bazeley
26 2:00pm-4:00pm Spore-Zone Tent Oyster mushroom bag making
class info
John Grant
Sunday Evening Activities
# Time Activity Location Leader
  4:00pm-6:00pm Main Hall Wine, Cheese, and Convivial Hobnobbing
class info
Staff
  6:00pm-8:00pm Main Hall Dinner Extravaganza!
class info
Daniel Kedan
  8:00pm-9:00pm Main Hall Movie Night!
class info
Dr. Gordon Walker
  9:00pm-10:00pm Front Doors of Main Hall UV Light Foray on CYO Grounds
class info
Alan Rockefeller

Monday January 20, 2025

Monday Main Hall Activities
# Time Activity Location Leader
  7:00am-8:30am Main Hall CYO Breakfast Service
class info
CYO Services
  12:00pm-1:00pm Main Hall Lunch - Self service by CYO
class info
CYO Services
  1:00pm-3:00pm Main Hall Cabin Cleanup & Camp Takedown
class info
Staff
Monday Classes
# Time Location Class/Workshop Instructor Register
27 9:00am-12:00pm Harriman Hall-Front Ink & Paint: History and Precipitation of Pigment from Mushrooms
class info
Meredith Scheff-King
28 10:00am-11:00am Chanterelle Fungimental Mycophagy--A sophisticated look at the basics of eating wild mushrooms
class info
David Campbell
29 11:00am-12:00pm Spore-Zone Tent Specimen Table Discussion - All are Welcome to Participate in Discussion
class info
George Riner
Mikhael Selk
30 1:30pm-3:30pm Mycopia Gourmet Mushrooms Tour of Mycopia Mushrooms in Sebastopol
class info
Justin Reyes

Schedule last updated November 1, 2024

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