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SCHEDULE LAUNCH IS JUNE 21st, 2026

Welcome to the largest wild mushroom happening in North America, the 46th Annual Telluride Mushroom Festival! This program of the Telluride Institute, a 501c3 non-profit, offers a plethora of events ranging from foray and mushroom ID sessions, to hands-on demonstrations and lectures—all led by regionally, nationally, and internationally-known experts, (and we cannot forget the wide variety of social and cultural events offered, along with the famous Mushroom Parade!) there is plenty for everyone, every day.

On this website, you can filter your search by events, venues, presenters, etc. Each year the Mushroom Festival features many wonderful presentations on “all things fungi.” Presentations on similar topics are grouped together at the same venue so that attendees interested will be able to spend more time learning and interacting, and less time walking between venues. See who else is interested in each event and interact with our extended Mushroom Family.

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Mycelial Wisdom: A Conversation with Two Pioneers Fireside Chat with Robert Rogers and Steve Farrar
Friday August 14, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
The Hotel Telluride
Featured: Complimentary OM Mushrooms and Real Mushrooms (TMF Sponsors) drinks at the coffee bar. Want to taste the Festival Telluride Brewing Company MycoBeer and NEW THIS YEAR Fenceline Myco-CIDER? $1 for every beer or cider purchased is donated to the Telluride Mushroom Festival, thanks to TMF sponsor and partner Hotel Telluride.

Mycelial Wisdom: A Conversation with Two PioneersFireside Chat Session Overview
Session Description

The Telluride Mushroom Festival is home to some of the most passionate and knowledgeable minds in the mycological world, and this year attendees have a rare and extraordinary opportunity: direct, unfiltered access to two of the community's true pioneers in a single room.

Mycelial Wisdom is an open, wide-ranging fireside chat designed around you and your questions. No topic is off limits. Whether you want to go deep on medicinal science, cultivation, clinical practice, the history of the industry, traditional plant medicine, or the future of fungi, Steve Farrar and Robert Dale Rogers are here to engage with it all. This is your chance to sit across from two men who have spent a combined seven decades shaping this field and ask them anything.
What to Expect

This is not a scripted panel or a formal lecture. It is a living conversation driven by the curiosity of everyone in the room. Come with your questions, your challenges, and your ideas. Topics may include:
The early days of functional mushroom research and cultivation, what was known, what was dismissed, and what has since been proven right. The evolution of medicinal mushroom science from fringe curiosity to a recognized pillar of integrative health. Clinical applications of fungal medicine, what practitioners are seeing, and what the research is finally confirming. The challenges and responsibilities of building an industry rooted in integrity, from sourcing and cultivation standards to consumer education. What indigenous and traditional knowledge systems have contributed to our modern understanding of fungi. The future of functional mushrooms in medicine, nutrition, and personal care, and where the most exciting frontiers lie.
But above all, this session goes wherever the audience takes it.

Why This Session Is Unlike Anything Else at the FestivalOpportunities like this are genuinely rare. The chance to be in a room with two people of this depth and caliber, ask them your most pressing questions, and hear them think out loud together, does not come around often. This is one of the great privileges of the Telluride Mushroom Festival: the community that gathers here, and the conversations that only happen here.
Come ready to engage. Come ready to ask. Mycelial Wisdom belongs to everyone in the room.

Speakers
avatar for Robert Dale Rogers

Robert Dale Rogers

Professional Herbalist, Elder Herbalist of Canada, Author, Adjunct Professor
Professional Herbalist, Elder Herbalist of Canada, Author, Adjunct Professor

Robert Dale Rogers is one of North America's most accomplished and respected authorities on plant and fungal medicine. A Professional Herbalist and Elder Herbalist of Canada, Robert brings over two decades of clinical experience to his practice, and more than 26 years of teaching
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Steve Farrar

Renowned Mycologist, Co-Founder of Om Mushrooms and M2 Ingredients, Om Organic Mushrooms
Renowned Mycologist, Co-Founder of Om Mushrooms and M2 Ingredients

Steve Farrar is one of the most consequential figures in the modern functional mushroom industry, a mycologist, cultivator, and entrepreneur whose work over more than 40 years has helped define what quality, integr
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Friday August 14, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
The Hotel Telluride 199 Cornet Ln, Telluride, CO 81435, USA
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