Mad about Mushrooms

I know that we're Wild About Mushrooms but we're not the only people who love their wild mushrooms.

In fact, flicking through copies of my mushroom correspondence I've discovered that there's a whole world out there dedicated to the celebration of the mushroom. Indeed, as we speak, plans are under way for the launch of The Mushroom Festival in Pennsylvania on September 8th and 9th. This two day event includes tastings, demonstrations, foraging expeditions - and a whole load of other activities designed to celbrate our favourite super food!

But whilst our American friends certainly like their mushrooms (we already have our invite for the 48th Annual National Morel Mushroom Festival in Michigan and the Texas Mushroom Festival in October), closer to home you can visit the Aberfoyle Mushroom Festival which takes place from October 21st to 24th.

During the Festival, you can be be taken on Fungus Forays by experts, whilst there will be cooking demonstrations and a display domestic and exotic mushrooms.

For reasons I've yet to fathom, other events during the Festival include a Czech themed dinner and dance, two dog shows to which the general public can bring their dogs, Jacobite street theatre, a craft fair, a candlelight walk and fiddlers’ rally, a charity golf match and a football match between a Falkirk FC Select and local team, Aberfoyle Rob Roy, a Tea Dance, a Duck Derby, and an Afro-Caribbean Salsa Barbeque!

You see? It's not just us who are Wild About Mushrooms!!