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Two fly agaric toadstools on the brown leaflittered woodland floor. The fungi have white stems and red tops with white spots and are the classic fairytale mushroom

Fly agaric (c) Jon Hawkins

Plan your Fungi Festival foray!

Start planning your fungi-filled weekend

Fungi fanatics, join us on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th October for our very first Fungi Festival at Potteric Carr nature reserve in Doncaster.

With talks, walks, workshops, play and a whole lot more, it's going to be a
spore-some weekend!

Saturday 12th October Sunday 13th October Launch Event Plan your visit to Potteric Carr

We can't wait to welcome you to our first ever Fungi Fest! Please note, there is an admission fee to enter Potteric Carr, as well as an additional charge for certain Fungi Fest events.

A group sat around a long table with easels in a painting class. There is a teacher standing behind admiring a student's work and everyone is looking toward's the man's work and smiling.
Friday 11th October

Join our spore-some launch event

Enjoy an evening of laughter and painting - no art skills required! Professional artists will be on hand to help you create your very own fungi painting masterpiece step-by-step.

Book your place

Saturday 12th October

We've not left mush-room with our spore-some line-up of events over the weekend of Fungi Festival.

Golden leaved beech tree canopy
EVENT

Fungi Fest: Treewilding talk

Enjoy a great talk delivered by Jake Robinson on his recent book 'Treewilding' as part of Fungi Fest at Potteric Carr
Common parasol mushroom being photographed by a YWT volunteer
EVENT

Fungi Fest: Guided walks

All varieties of fun-gi’s are invited to join us at our inaugural Fungi Fest event to celebrate all things fungi
singular purple fungi on the brown leaf littered woodland floor
EVENT

Fungi Fest: Fungi needle felt workshop

Make a fungi memory of your time at Fungi Festival and learn a new skill too!
EVENT

Fungi Fest: Storytelling with Mud Pie Arts

Join us round the campfire for fabulous fungi storytelling sessions with Mud Pie Arts!

Help Yorkshire's fungi flourish

Species across Yorkshire have been pushed to the brink of extinction, but you can help.
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Sunday 13th October

The fun-gi continues on Sunday with even more spore-tacular activities!

Lions mane mushroom with white dangly tassles
EVENT

Fungi Fest: Health and Wellbeing Benefits of Lions Mane

Stop by for a talk delivered by Joe Longbottom, cultivation expert at Marvellous Mycology Yorkshire, discovering the benefits of Lions Mane fungus.
Common parasol mushroom being photographed by a YWT volunteer
EVENT

Fungi Fest: Guided walks

All varieties of fun-gi’s are invited to join us at our inaugural Fungi Fest event to celebrate all things fungi
singular purple fungi on the brown leaf littered woodland floor
EVENT

Fungi Fest: Fungi needle felt workshop

Make a fungi memory of your time at Fungi Festival and learn a new skill too!
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And there's spore!

More fabulous fungi events happening across Yorkshire, before and after Fungi Fest,