Name: Functional Mushrooms for Health and Wellness
Start: 2025-06-09T10:30:00-0600
End: 2025-06-09T11:30:00-0600

Welcome to the largest wild mushroom happening in North America, the 44th Annual Telluride Mushroom Festival! A plethora of events ranging from foray and mushroom ID sessions, to hands-on demonstrations, to lectures—all led by regionally-, nationally-, and internationally-known experts, (and we cannot forget the Parade!) there is plenty for everyone each and every day.

On this website, you can filter your search by events, venues, presenters, etc. Each year the Mushroom Festival features many wonderful presentations on “all things fungi.” Presentations on similar topics are grouped together at the same venue so that attendees interested will be able to spend more time learning and interacting, and less time walking between venues. See who else is interested in each event and interact with our extended Mushroom Family. See you soon!

Monday June 9, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MDT

Sheridan Opera House @ 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435

We are part of a shroom boom in the United States. The functional mushroom industry is growing to $50B in the next few years. There are new functional mushroom companies popping up every day so it's more important now than ever to make sure we understand the ins and outs of functional mushrooms.

- Exploring the main classes of functional compounds and the basics of how they work in the body.
- Mycelium versus fruiting bodies
- Busting common myths and misconceptions and backing it up with scientific literature
- Going through a list of 20+ functional mushrooms you should know, where to find them, how to grow them, and how to extract/prepare them.
- Looking at various extraction techniques, the pros and cons of them and which one is the best?
- Getting a global view of the functional mushroom industry in different countries around the world, from Thailand, United States, Australia, Mexico, Nigeria, China, Ecuador, and more.
- The future of the functional mushroom industry

Speakers

Alex Dorr

Mushroom Revival

Alex Dorr is the founder and CEO of the functional mushroom company, Mushroom Revival. Alex hosts the number one mushroom podcast in the world, The Mushroom Revival Podcast, with millions of listeners from over a hundred countries. After earning his degree in mycology, Alex authored... Read More →

Monday June 9, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MDT
Sheridan Opera House

Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), Functional Mushrooms

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45th Telluride Mushroom Festival

Alex Dorr

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