Tri-County Foray 2024 🔺
August 1 to August 4 (Thursday to Sunday)
With 8/2 Friday & 8/3 Saturday Day Passes available
We will visit trails in Burnett + Washburn + Barron Counties
... based at the American Legion Cumberland, WI !
Join us for one of the largest fungi forays in the Midwest! Sign up is at the end of this page.
Tri-County foray is located in the home-region of mycologist, mushroom farmer, NorthWestern MycoEnthusiasts organizer, WMS board member, author and Russula guy, Tavis Lynch. What began as a privately-run event created by him and Melissa Klotka is now organized with the Wisconsin Mycological Society. At this very family-friendly event you will learn find experts in mycology, foraging and a focus on wild foods!
While you are welcome to make your own accommodations, tickets include an option to camp at our booked camping and RV sites that will be shared among our group. We have all of the RV sites at the Eagle Point Campground booked this year on the upper camp site, and tents can nestle in as well with plenty of room!
(actual picture from our camp site)
At the foray there will be:
A VIP Plant Hike with Sam Thayer you can sign up for (at a small extra fee)
Sam will take the group into the wilderness for about 2 hours to discuss wild plants that you can find all around you.
You never know where you are going to end up when Sam gets going. He might end up jumping into a marsh with the cattails and show you how to find wapato, or he might even go to the edge of a lawn to show you what lies there waiting to be discovered, but no matter WHAT it will be an adventure!
A VIP Plant Hike with Sam Thayer you can sign up for (at a small extra fee)
Sam will take the group into the wilderness for about 2 hours to discuss wild plants that you can find all around you.
You never know where you are going to end up when Sam gets going. He might end up jumping into a marsh with the cattails and show you how to find wapato, or he might even go to the edge of a lawn to show you what lies there waiting to be discovered, but no matter WHAT it will be an adventure!
Workshop with Shelby Dutcher
Shelby is going to be teaching us about elixirs and salves and guiding us in her knowledge of using plants for medicinal purposes.
We are grateful to have her expertise at this event and cannot wait to create incredible concoctions with her!
Cooking Wild Foods
Chris Gavin will lead us through a cooking demonstration that tells us about his favorite wild foods. Chris is an avid outdoorsman and forager, and he creates the most incredible meals that were gathered and hunted by his own hands.
At the end, we will get to taste them!
Last year we were lucky enough to even get to take some of them home!
Chris Gavin will lead us through a cooking demonstration that tells us about his favorite wild foods. Chris is an avid outdoorsman and forager, and he creates the most incredible meals that were gathered and hunted by his own hands.
At the end, we will get to taste them!
Last year we were lucky enough to even get to take some of them home!
Join us for our Wild Foods pot luck lunch and try some of the most amazing wild foods from your fellow foray attendees!
What else do we offer?
- Fungi-fabulous forays led by Wisconsin's foremost experts
- Tables of collected fungi to be identified and examined
- Two mycological lectures
- Two catered sit-down dinners by the Hilltop Resort included
- Kids' activities focused on nature and fungi including learning support and recognition for junior mycologists
- A UV Night Hike to look at UV-fluorescent fungi (including lichen!)
- Great conversation with long-time mycology enthusiasts and new learners alike
- Fungi-fabulous forays led by Wisconsin's foremost experts
- Tables of collected fungi to be identified and examined
- Two mycological lectures
- Two catered sit-down dinners by the Hilltop Resort included
- Kids' activities focused on nature and fungi including learning support and recognition for junior mycologists
- A UV Night Hike to look at UV-fluorescent fungi (including lichen!)
- Great conversation with long-time mycology enthusiasts and new learners alike
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Ticket prices for Tri-County Foray 2024
For adults (18+) - Thurs. to Sunday - $ 150 - Friday day pass - $ 80 - Saturday day pass - $ 80 For children ages 12 to 17 - Thurs to Sunday - $ 50 - Friday day pass - $ 30 - Saturday day pass - $ 30 For children under the age of 12 These attendees still need to register separately, but there is no cost! Just fill in the form with the name and other info for the child and it will "charge" you $0 to register at the end. VIP Plant Walk with Sam Thayer this is an add-on event - and only on Saturday! - Adults 18 years or over - adds $ 50 - Kids 17 and under - Free + must be accompanied by at least 1 adult guardian. Still please mark "yes" for Sam Thayer's plant walk when registering a child. All other events are free with registration and don't require separate sign-up Want to read more about Tri-County foray? Click here.
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