Eagle Mushroom and Wild Food Festival

08/07/2025

a new featured highlight of EMF2025 - NEVER BFORE SEEN FILM! don't miss it on the big screen.

FUNGA FILM FEST is the newest component of EMF2025. Saturday night 830pm we will dive into fungal story telling and wonder. tix only $20 for the screening, included with the GA pass.

WE ARE IN FOR A TREAT:

We have been honored to screen for the first time ever: SEEING FUNGI thanks to the generosity and amazing work of: Foundation .sheldrake

I have curated this short film selection to include some of my all time faves:

WROUGHT By Joel Penner and Anna Sigrithur.
Touch: an e(rot)ic film By Bradley Williams
Fly Amanita By David Fenster
Subsurface By Mila Garelle
FEST IN SHOW: Dethroning The Kin By Hamilton Pevec

08/06/2025

this is your chance!

08/06/2025

another great feature at EMF2025!

08/05/2025

Learn more about our new EMF2025 offerings, and get your passes today!

Started in 2008, the Eagle Mushroom & Wild Food Festival is an annual three-day festival in Eagle, Colorado.

08/05/2025

EMF2025 starts this friday evening thanks to Schlosser and Sanchez Group there are still some passes left and a few tickets for the Wild Sage Eagle culinary experience. GET THEM BEFORE THEY ARE GONE, kinda like porcinis....lol.

Thanks to the generosity of our sponsor: Schlosser & Sanchez Group - Top Listing Agents for Coldwell Banker Distinctive Properties, with over 40 years of experience in luxury real estate, ranking #1 in Quarter 1 and 2 this year for sales volume, representing Sellers! Bringing together decades of expertise, passion, and deep-rooted connections, this exceptional team consisting of Scott Schlosser, Harrison Sanchez and Melanie Sanchez is dedicated to delivering unparalleled real estate experiences in the Vail Valley. Recently, a local couple attested to receiving this type of experience while working with the Schlosser and Sanchez Group.

“From the very beginning of this process, we have been absolutely blown away by the professionalism, responsiveness, courtesy, and genuine care we received. Their level of dedication and personal attention was beyond anything we could have hoped for. This purchase was a major transition for our family and Scott and Harrison’s guidance made all the difference. Our questions and concerns were met with thoughtful consideration and thorough follow-up. They took an active interest in our needs and created solutions that truly impacted our quality of life. We cannot thank them enough for giving us something far beyond a home—they’ve truly given us is hope for our family’s future.” – Katie Spoonhour and Andy Broderick

We are proud to be the Title Sponsor of the Eagle Mushroom & Wild Food Festival! For over 15 years, Scott Schlosser has been a volunteer and/or a sponsor of this incredible event. It is very important to us, to support events like this and to continue to be the title sponsors of Christmas on Broadway and the Eagle Arts Murder Mystery year after year; in an effort to bring people to our amazing community and to help enrich Eagle’s economic vibrancy. Additionally, we support these events to create a strong sense of belonging for everyone.

To learn how they achieve remarkable results for their clients, call Schlosser & Sanchez Group or visit SSGVail.com

Scott Schlosser | 970.390.9223
Harrison Sanchez | 970.390.8551
Melanie Sanchez | 970.343.6051

08/03/2025

Thank you to our amazing local sponsor!

All Coloradans know about Alpine Bank. You probably have one of their pens in your house! But did you know they support mycology too? We are proud to be sponsored by this amazing employee owned community bank.

The Alpine Way: When you succeed. We succeed. Since 1973, Alpine Bank has worked to create a culture that is inspired by caring. We care about our customers, our communities, and our employees. We care about you.

07/30/2025

Saturday night headliner!

Britt Bunyard, PhD, is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal Fungi, in print since 2008. Britt is a former university professor and has published over 100 academic and popular science papers and authored several books.

A popular evangelizer on all things fungal, Britt has been featured on the BBC World Service’s Newshour, NPR’s All Things Considered, PBS’s NOVA and quoted in Discover magazine, The Atlantic, National Geographic, Vox, Vogue, Forbes and many more. Annually, he leads mycological expeditions throughout the world.

Britt has served as Executive Director of the Telluride Mushroom Festival since 2014 and in 2021 he was awarded the Gary Lincoff Award “For Contributions to Amateur Mycology,” by the North American Mycological Association—NAMA’s most prestigious honor for American mycologists.

🍄‍🟫 Join him for his lecture...

📣 Fungi Now: Building a Sustainable and Resilient World
📆 Saturday, August 9th, 6 PM
📍 Brush Creek Pavilion, Eagle, Colorado

About the lecture...

Fungi are weird, fungi are cool, and fungi are beautiful. But how much do we really know about them? For starters, they do much more than just rot things. They control pretty much all life on our planet and are everywhere. Britt Bunyard’s lecture will present fascinating stories, beautiful photos, and some of the research being conducted using fungi to solve many of our planet’s woes right now. Fungi CAN save the planet! Discover the crazy, wonderful life that goes on all around us, mostly hidden in plain sight.

For general audiences, no knowledge of mycology is required, and all levels of mycological questions are encouraged for the Q&A. Included in GA ticket cost.

07/30/2025

Hey thats me, your new executive director, come here my word sounds!

Step off the supplement aisle and into the forest. 👇In this story-rich exploration, Hamilton Pevec—filmmaker, forager, and president of the Western Colorado Mycological Association—shifts our gaze from the supermarket shelf back to the forest floor, where Colorado’s native mushrooms offer a potent, often-overlooked pharmacopeia.

While the big names like Reishi and Lion’s Mane get all the glory, what about Boletus rubriceps, Phellinus tremulae, or Ganoderma applanatum? What makes a mushroom medicinal? What compounds give them their healing power? And how can we build a deeper relationship with our local fungal allies? 🤓

In this talk, you’ll learn the science and soul behind the functional fungi of our mountain ecosystems. Hamilton brings you a heartfelt and knowledge-rich crash course in Colorado’s medicinal mushrooms—wild, accessible, and ready to be rediscovered.

07/30/2025

our friday night lecture with chaoticforager DON'T MISS IT! She is amazing.

Gabrielle Cerberville wears a LOT of hats. 🎩

She’s a mushroom and foraging influencer with a devoted following, the author of ‘Gathered: On Foraging, Feasting, and the Seasonal Life,’ a PhD student in music composition, a multimedia artist, and a passionate advocate for sustainability and community care.

📣 In this lively and thought-provoking talk, Gabrielle invites audiences into the tangled, awe-inspiring worlds of fungal morphology, wild ecologies, and the sensory joys of foraging. But this isn’t just a lecture about mushrooms. It’s a story about curiosity, resilience, and connection.

Drawing from her experiences in the field, the forest, and the academy, Gabrielle details how to pay attention to the natural world and all of its smallest and weirdest details. 🔍 In this talk, you’ll learn about how the intricacies of fungal morphology, the ever-unfolding surprises of natural ecologies, and the endless hunt for wild experiences can inspire your own search for meaning and connection, even in uncertain times.

📆 August 8-10, 2025
📍 Brush Creek Pavilion, Eagle, Colorado

Eagle Mushroom Fest is filling fast! Reserve your spot today and get in on all the mycological fun! 🍄‍🟫💚