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Tenderfoot Learning Lab is a beautiful place that provides healthy habitats of mixed mesophytic forests. Throughout the three miles of hiking trails you can expect to see a variety of tree species, including pine, white pine, red and white oaks, poplar, red maple, sassafras, beech, and some hemlocks and sycamores in the ravines. The Fall Fungi Festival provides an excellent display of a thriving Appalachian Ohio forest.
Vendor spots available for nature inspired artists! Artists are able to choose from five time slots that are available throughout the weekend. No entry fee, just pay 10% of all sales. Vendors receive a Free Weekend Pass, a $50 dollar value. Register by emailing us at AppalachianUnderstories@RuralAction.org
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By purchasing a t-shirt or hoodie, you're helping us host more local events and tours, which support our community's tourism and economy. Your contribution is invaluable to the growth and success of Appalachian Understories. Thank you so much for your support!
Shirt sales are online only.
This two-day one-night event will include inoculation workshops, guided hikes with mushroom experts, fungus forays, family programming, dehydration workshops, camping and more!
This is a space that is inclusive and encouraging for all folks to learn more about fungi and deepen their sense of place in Appalachia Ohio. They will come to learn about mushrooms and they will stay for the friendship that they find amongst each other.
Parking for the event is offsite. Follow signage from Tenderfoot Learning Lab for parking in nearby field. Access from parking to festival grounds is a 0.25 mile walk along a well marked trail connecting the properties. Walking along the road is not permitted!
Coordinates of the entrance to the parking area are 39.337791, -82.220574. There will be signage to direct you accordingly.
A FREE shuttle service will be running on October 5th and 6th from 9am-11am Saturday and Sunday morning and Sunday afternoon from 2:30-4pm.
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We are providing complimentary Saturday day passes to the Fall Fungi Festival for musically inclined folks who bring an instrument and are eager to perform around a campfire on the evening of Saturday October 5th at 9 PM.
If you would like to participate, please reach out to us at AppalachianUnderstories@RuralAction.org
Schedule:
Saturday October 5th
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11:15am- Noon Mycography: Spore Printing for Art and ID by Jess Fritz
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11:00am- Noon Family Programming more details coming soon
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1:30pm-4pm Farm tour of Soulshine Acres by Anna & Andy
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1:30pm-3:00pm Guided Mushroom Hike by Martha Bishop
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2:30pm-4pm Family Programming more details coming soon
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3:30pm-4:30pm Fire Making and Earthliving Skills by Austin Cannon
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4:30pm-6:30pm Live music by Rock Salt and Nails
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6:30pm-7:30pm A Mindful Journey Through Nature at Sunset by Michelle Greenfield
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7:30pm-9:00pm Night Hike
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9:00pm-11:00pm Jam Circle around Bondfire
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Sunday October 6th
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8:30-9:30am Morning Yoga by Michelle Greenfield
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9:30am-11:00am TBD
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11:00am-12:30pm Family Programming more details coming soon
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11:00am- 2:30pm Mushroom Cooking Demo by Mike Young
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1:00pm-4:00pm Guided Mushroom Hike by Homer Elliot
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