Summer Mushroom Workshop

In Alberta, summer has the greatest variety of mushrooms. It can be quite the challenge to sort out all those tempting mushrooms and confusing look-alikes. We focus on about a dozen edible mushrooms you can safely pick plus teach you to identify a few unexpected ones that we forage along the way.

NEXT BOOKING FOR SUMMER 2025 - Dates will be announced via newsletter 

The morning starts out with:

08:30 - Arrival.

09:00 – Brief introduction to mushrooms and mushroom ID basics.

10:30 – A look at summer mushrooms you can encounter, with an in-depth look at the best edible ones.

12:00 – Lunch: mushroom soup, mushroom main and a mushroom dessert.

13:00 – Two hours of foraging for summer mushrooms.

15:00 – Sorting out the finds and looking at identification features, discussing the edible, the poisonous and the medicinal.

16:30 – Cook and taste of our foraged summer mushrooms.

17:30 - Wind up and back slapping…

Included: Refreshments, Mushroom lunch, mushroom knowledge, dirty hands. Lunch will be gluten free and omnivorous.

Things to bring: Assorted clothing layers for all eventualities, hat, sun screen, bug spray, sturdy boots or shoes (we may hit some wet spots.), a good knife in a safe sheath, A loupe or magnifier if you have one, a basket or bucket, Mushroom field guides (Should include Mushrooms of Western Canada). Any mushrooms you need help identifying.

Location: Camp Kitchen, Devon Lion's Park, Devon Alberta.

Things to buy on site: Mushrooms of Western Canada, other field guides.