08/05/2026
MYCOmmunity Applied Mycology has just tied up the 4th Annual Moorabool Mushroom Festival 2026, located in Victoria, Australia.
The festival has built itself from the support of a small grant from the Moorabool Shire Council, starting in Ballan and now in Bacchus Marsh Town Hall. The festival hosts presenters, hands on workshops, art installation and a market with stalls from artists, chefs, and producers of medicinal mushrooms.
We had an amazing line up, with an outstanding presentation from Alison Pouliot who has delivered amazing talks year after year from the inception of this festival. Steve Axford and Catherine Marcniak from Planet fungi shared with the myco-phillic audience about how fungi found them, and presented in-depth reading of their new book and premier of their new documentary “Nature’s Bounty”.
The festival showcased a diverse lineup of presenters that had come from all over the country to share their knowledge and expertise: University academics, citizens scientists, poison hotlines, geneticists, food producers, poets and medicinal ushroom extractors.
Workshops included hands-on low tech grow your own mushroom kits, how to ferment your own foods, filtering contaminants in the landscape, fungal microscopy and a discussion of what we could learn from the fungal Queendom.
Festival organisers, presenters and workshop-holders As a charity, a lot of our efforts come from our volunteers, a small committee that works behind the scenes to make sure all hyphal nodes of the festival are lined up to create a programme. To our volunteers that extended our network to ensure all the bits of the puzzle could move seamlessly – we are endlessly grateful to you. As we take a break after the outstanding turn out in 2026, we are looking towards a more extensive festival in 2027. If you’d like to get involved, present or run a workshop, please contact MYCOmmunity via email, Facebook, or Instagram.
Mush love!
Thanks Victoria Bravo Photography
