COMPLETE MOMS EVENT CALENDAR

Sunday 9/2 10:00 AM

FORAY - Rockwood Reservation

Location: Rockwood Reservation, Eureka, MO

Presented by: St. Louis Chapter

Attendance:Members and non-members are welcome

Registration: Please check with person listed below

Fee: No charge

Contact person: Charlie Raiser

Contact email/phone: craiser@momyco.org / 314-773-4551

A foray at Rockwood Reservation conducted by Charlie Raiser. The Department of Conservation operates these 1,880 acres as an area for conservation education. For exact meeting location and additional information check with the contact person listed above.

Tuesday 9/11/2018 6:00 PM

MEETING - "My Great Adventure: hunting the world's most beautiful mushrooms"

Location: Powder Valley Nature Center at 11715 Cragwold Rd, Kirkwood, MO

Presented by: St. Louis Chapter

Attendance:Members and non-members are welcome

Registration: Not required

Fee: No charge

Contact person: Maxine Stone

Contact email/phone: mstone@momyco.org / 314-963-0280

A meeting featuring Taylor Lockwood who will present "My Great Adventure: hunting the world's most beautiful mushrooms". For more information check with the contact person listed above.

Sunday 9/16/2018 11:00 AM

FORAY - Foray, Wine & Beer Tasting

Location: Charleville Vinyard and Brewery, 16937 Boyd Rd, Ste Genevieve MO

Presented by: St. Louis Chapter

Attendance: Members and non-members are welcome

Registration: Please contact the person listed below

Fee: No charge

Contact person: Sara Yates

Contact email/phone: syates@momyco.org / 314-439-5724

Come join MOMS and enjoy a potluck dinner and glass of Missouri wine at 11:00 AM on September 16th at the CHARLEVILLE WINERY located at 16937 Boyd Road, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. Potluck. Bring a dish to share - entree, salad or dessert. Space is limited for this remarkable foray and event so get your reservations in early by contacting the person listed above.

Saturday 9/22/2018 9:00 AM

FORAY - LaBarque Creek

Location: LaBarque Creek Conservation Area, Pacific, MO 63069

Presented by: St. Louis Chapter

Attendance: Members and non-members are welcome

Registration: Please contact the person listed below

Fee: No charge

Contact person: Don Evans

Contact email/phone: 314-574-4523

Come join MOMS at LaBARQUE CREEK, one of Jefferson County's healthiest Ozark streams. Contact the person listed above for the exact meeting place and to answer any other questions you might have.

Sun. 9/23/2018 10:00 AM

FORAY - Bootlegger's Run

Location: 13236 Streetcar Dr, Maryland Heights, MO

Presented by: St. Louis Chapter

Attendance: Members and non-members are welcome

Registration: Please contact the person listed below

Fee: No charge

Contact person: Judi Thomas

Contact email/phone: jatomas@sbcglobal.net / 314-439-5724

Come join MOMS at Bootlegger’s Run Trail in Creve Coeur Lake Memorial Park located off of Streetcar Dr. in Maryland Heights, MO 63043. Bootlegger’s Trail is a hidden gem within the upper section of the park. This shaded dirt trail winds through the forest in a series of gently inclined switchbacks that offer some interesting features at every turn. To find out where to meet or for questions, please call the contact person listed above.

Tuesday 10/2/2018 6:00 PM

CLASS - 10 Common Edible Mushrooms of Missouri

Location: Powder Valley Nature Center at 11715 Cragwold Rd, Kirkwood, MO

Presented by: St. Louis Chapter

Attendance: Members only

Registration: Please contact the person listed below

Fee: No charge

Contact person: Maxine Stone

Contact email/phone: mstone@momyco.org / 314-963-0280

The final of four annual educational classes we offer. For additional information check with the person listed above.

Sunday 10/7/2018 10:00 AM

FORAY - Hazlet State Park

Location: Hazlet State Park, Carlisle, IL

Presented by: St. Louis Chapter

Attendance: Members and non-members are welcome

Registration: Please contact the person listed below

Fee: No charge

Contact person: Steve Booker

Contact email/phone: sbooker@momyco.org / 618-980-0866

This foray will be at HAZLET STATE PARK. Please come and join us anytime during the event. We will hunt for all the wonderful fall mushrooms. Make your reservations and find out where to meet by contacting the person listed above.

Saturday 10/13/2018 10:00 AM

FORAY - Englemann Woods

Location: Englemann Woods Conservation Area, 2360 Hwy T, Labadie, MO 63055

Presented by: St. Louis Chapter

Attendance: Members and non-members are welcome

Registration: Please contact the person listed below

Fee: No charge

Contact person: James Savens or Dennis McMillan

Contact email/phone: jbsavens@hotmail.com / 314-939-9107 or chas@htc.net / 618-939-8939

Enjoy fall colors in one of Missouri’s last remaining old growth forests. 5 miles east of Labadie MO on hwy T. Contact the person listed above for the exact meeting place and to answer any other questions you might have.

Monday 10/15/2018 7:00 PM

PRESENTATION - "The Kitchen Mycologist" by Eugenia Bone

Location: Ridgway Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63110

Presented by: St. Louis Chapter

Attendance: Members and friends

Registration: Reservations required. Contact Jan Simons below.

Fee: No charge

Contact person: Jan Simons

Contact email/phone: jsimons@momyco.org / 314-773-4551

A number of years ago, Eugenia Bone spoke at our winter luncheon. She is a dynamic speaker, an author, journalist, and former president of the New York Mycological Society. She is coming back to St. Louis on Monday, October 15 and will present to MOMS members and friends a talk called The Kitchen Mycologist, how a little mycology can make you a better mushroom cook. The talk will be at 7:00 PM in the Garden room at Ridgway Center (the visitor center) at the Missouri Botanical Garden at 4344 Shaw Blvd. The Garden is co-sponsoring the talk. I will get there at 6:30 to welcome you. Please RSVP to Jan Simons at jsimons@momyco.org / 314-773-4551. Reservations are required to ensure adequate seating. Eugenia will bring copies of her books, Mycophilia and Microbia, her new book about microbiology, to sell. The books are $20 each, cash or check. Please let me know if you think you might be interested in a copy of either book.

No outside food or drink except water.

Thursday 10/18/2018 to Monday morning 10/22/2018

"Brad's Fall Foray"

Location: Current River State Park, Salem, MO

Presented by: St. Louis Chapter

Attendance: Members and non-members are welcome

Registration: Online registration NOW AVAILABLE

Fee: See fee section below

Contact person: James Savens

Contact email/phone: jbsavens4@hotmail.com / 314-939-9107

This year’s “Brad’s Fall Foray” will be held in Shannon county Missouri on Thursday October 18th, through Monday morning October 22nd at Current River State Park. Come for any or all of the day’s activities.

Current River State Park, consisting of over 12,000 acres in the heart of the Ozark National Riverways, was originally developed as a corporate retreat in the 1930s along the banks of the Current River. Its rustic lodge and facility, now on the national register of historic places, boasts trials that wind through old growth trees and high quality maturing forests.

Nearby large tracts of public land provide ideal and unique foray sites to explore such as Sunklands conservation area, where extreme karst geology showcase dramatic sinkholes resulting in over 14 different natural community types harboring diverse species unique to the area.

Pioneer Forest and the Roger Pryor backcountry (totaling some 160,000 acres of unevenly aged oak, hickory, and pine) have been sustainably managed over the last 60 years using low impact forestry practices such as controlled burns to promote forest health. This tract held privately by the L.A.D. foundation contains scattered pockets of 400 year old oak, the last remaining stand of virgin short leaf pine in the state, and 1200 year old cliff borne eastern red cedar, the oldest in Missouri.

Peck Ranch and Rocky Creek Conservation area, home to the state’s elk reintroduction program, is a 60,000 acre area situated on ancient igneous geology that that create fantastic water features such as Rocky Falls, Klepzig Mill, and other less well known attractions. Possible early morning elk encounters are not unheard of.

Additionally, apart from those already listed, there are hundreds of other points of interest in the area for self-guided foraying on public land, offering all the best of what the Missouri Ozarks has to offer.

SPEAKERS:
This year’s speakers will include Jay Justice (MOMS Chief Mycologist) of the Arkansas Mycological society, Stephan Russel of the Hoosier Mycological Society, and Leon Shernoff of “Mushroom, the Journal of Wild Mushrooming” who will be on hand throughout the weekend providing expertise and nightly talks about all things fungi.

MEALS:
Meals will be potluck Thursday, Friday and Sunday at dinner. Breakfast, a sack lunch and our fall dinner party will be provided to all attendees on Saturday. A mycophagy breakfast and Bloody Mary bar will be provided Sunday morning. Feel free to bring a contribution to either, such as fresh mushrooms, homemade pickles, or tomato juice. Our dinner party Saturday evening will feature pit roasted lamb with many vegetarian options. Please contact James Savens (contact person above) concerning any dietary restrictions you may have and/or questions about accommodations.

LODGING:
The event is scheduled for Thursday, October 18 through Monday, October 21. Come for any or all of the days. Lodging is limited inside the facility with beds available for only about half of the members expected to attend, and it is highly encouraged that everyone capable to take advantage of the free camping. Camping is available both inside the gymnasium and anywhere in the park, which is open to camping exclusively for our members; excellent campsites are abundant in front of the lodge on the banks of the Current River. Travel trailers, RV and pop up campers are welcome, but must be self contained and please be respectful of generator use. Accommodations will be reserved on a first-come first-served basis so reserve early. Alternatively there are hotels and cabin rentals nearby in the town of Eminence, some with off season rates. Sleepy Bear Cabins are the closest to the event.

MYCOPHAGY WORKSHOP:
Join chefs Michael Miller of Kitchen/Kounter Kulture and John Komotos of Peno in the kitchen for new and interesting preparations of all your favorite fungi. Emphasis will be on Hen of the Woods, Lions Mane, Morels and Porcini as you help prepare brunch. All participants will receive fresh mushrooms to take home. Workshop size limited to 15 members.

MUSHROOM CULTIVATION WORKSHOP:
Join James Savens and special guest at Saffron mountain camp for a field course on outdoor mushroom cultivation on logs. Topics covered encompass tree selection, substrate preparation, innoculation, tools, materials, and placement for Shitake, Hen of the Woods and Oyster mushrooms. Workshop size is limited to 25 members and participants will receive their own mushroom logs to take home.

VOLUNTEERS:
Volunteers are needed for the event to help cook, clean, lead forays and other tasks. Volunteers will receive a special foray T-shirt and high fives. If interested in volunteering please indicate so on your registration along with T-shirt size.

FEES:
Adult member registrations - $40
Adult non-member registrations - $50
Student (over 16) registrations - $25
Children (16 and under) registrations - FREE
Lodging: $20 per person per bed per night (including children)
Camping is FREE
Mycophagy Workshop: $20 per person
Mushroom Cultivation Workshop - $20 per person

REGISTRATION DATES:
Last date for early registration - October 2nd
Last date for late registration - October 15th (late fee of $20 per party will be charged)

For additional information and point of contact for event, please call or email James Savens (contact person shown above). Looking forward to seeing all of you there.

Friday 10/26/2018 to Sunday 10/28/2016

WEEKEND CAMPOUT - The Hawnting

Location: Hawn State Park, Park Dr, Farmington, MO 63670

Presented by: St. Louis Chapter

Attendance: Members and non-members are welcome

Registration: Please contact the person listed below

Fee: Please contact the person listed below

Contact person: James Savens

Contact email/phone: jbsavens@hotmail.com / 314-939-9107

Join MOMS members on October 26th for a fun filled ghoulish time at HAWN STATE PARK for the MOMS annual Spooktacular fall foray. If we are lucky the ghouls and mushrooms will be out with a vengeance. Make your reservations and find out where and when to meet by contacting the person listed above.

Sunday 11/4/2018 11:00 AM

FORAY AND FOODFEST - Wild Times at Babler

Location: Babler State Park, Alta Shelter, Wildwood, MO

Presented by: St. Louis Chapter

Attendance: Members and non-members are welcome

Registration: Please contact person listed below

Fee: No charge

Contact person: Steve Booker or Jan Simons Raiser

Contact email/phone: sbooker@momyco.org / 618-980-0866 or jsimons@momyco.org / 314-773-4551

MOMS is having its "WILD TIMES" once again. For those of you who haven't been able to make this spectacular event, the potluck is absolutely outstanding and not to be missed. It will start at 11AM. Sign up early by contacting the person listed above.

Tuesday 11/13/2018 6:00 PM

BiMonthly Meeting - Annual Photo Show

Location: Powder Valley Nature Center at 11715 Cragwold Rd, Kirkwood, MO

Presented by: St. Louis Chapter

Attendance: Members and non-members are welcome

Registration: Not required

Fee: No charge

Contact person: Maxine Stone

Contact email/phone: mstone@momyco.org / 314-963-0280

Our annual photo show featuring photos of mushrooms found by our members over the year. Take photos all season. In November, put them on a flash drive and show them at our Annual Photo Show, where we can take a look at your beautiful creations. Don’t be shy. It’s lots of fun. For further information check with the person listed above.