SOMA 2025 Camp Schedule

Friday January 17, 2025
Friday Main Hall Activities
Time Location Class/Workshop Instructor
11:00am-6:00pm Main Hall Friday Arrivals - Check in to SOMA Camp after 11am
Melissa Jaffray
11:00am-6:00pm Main Hall Silent Auction - Drop Off
Rachel Zierdt
11:00am-6:00pm Main Hall SOMA Bookstore T-Shirts, Signed Books, and Hand-Made Crafts!
Staff
3:00pm-6:00pm Main Hall Mushroom Identification Tables
George Riner 
Mikhael Selk
Friday Forays
Time Location Title/Location Leader
11:00am-2:00pm Meet at Foray Location Sonoma Foray on Friday before Camp!
Dr. Gordon Walker
11:00am-2:00pm Meet at Foray Location Pt. Reyes Foray on Friday before Camp!
Staff  
Mikhael Selk
1:30pm-4:30pm Front Doors of Main Hall CYO Grounds Foray
Staff

Friday Classes
Time Location Class/Workshop Instructor
12:00pm-4:00pm Harriman Hall-Rear Knitting with Assigned Pooling: An Amanita Muscaria Shawl
Melanie Perkins
12:00pm-4:00pm Harriman Hall-Front Botanical Print with plants and lichen
Mayumi Fujio
4:00pm-5:30pm Main Hall - Cooking Demo 12 Ways to Preserve Chanterelles
Trent & Kristen Blizzard
Friday Evening Activities
Time Location Class/Workshop Instructor
6:00pm-7:00pm Main Hall Friday Mushroom Pizza & Salad Dinner
Jennifer Levine
7:00pm-8:00pm Main Hall Friday Keynote: Fungi Through Time, by Dr. Cat Adams
Cat Adams
Saturday January 18, 2025
Saturday Main Hall Activities
Time Location Class/Workshop Instructor
7:00am-11:00am Main Hall EVERYONE - Check in to SOMA Camp
Staff
7:30am-8:30am Main Hall Muffins, Fruit, and Coffee
Staff
8:30am-9:00am Boletus ORIENTATION (optional)
Staff
8:30am-6:00pm Main Hall SOMA Bookstore T-Shirts, Signed Books, and Hand-Made Crafts!
Staff
9:00am-5:00pm Main Hall Silent Auction - Highest bidder wins at 5pm!
Rachel Zierdt
11:00am-4:00pm Spore-Zone Tent Mushroom Identification Tables
George Riner 
Mikhael Selk
12:00pm-1:00pm Main Hall Lunch - Self service by CYO
CYO Services
Saturday Forays
Time Location Title/Location Leader
9:00am-12:00pm Front Doors of Main Hall Foray for Mushrooms to Create Pigments
Ang Pohle
9:30am-12:00pm Front Doors of Main Hall CYO Grounds Foray for Dye Fungi
Else Vellinga 
Mike McCurdy
1:00pm-2:30pm Front Doors of Main Hall On-Site Truffle Foray
Darvin DeShazer
Saturday Classes
Time Location Class/Workshop Instructor
9:00am-10:30am Amanita Medicinal Mushrooms 
Trent (and Kristen) Blizzard
9:00am-10:30am Boletus Best Mushrooms for Beginners 
Autumn Summers
9:00am-10:30am Chanterelle Ecology of the Invasive Death Cap in California
Cecelia Stokes
9:00am-11:00am Dentinum An Introduction to Mushroom Identification
Jon Sommer
9:00am-12:00pm Harriman Hall-Front Paper Making with Fungi
Marilyn Hornor
9:00am-12:00pm Harriman Hall-Rear Kumihimo braiding
Gayle Still
9:00am-1:00pm Art Shack Magic Mushroom Lamps
Melissa Jaffray
10:00am-11:30am Main Hall - Cooking Demo Forage to Fork: A Mycellium to Cap Culinary Journey
Rebecca Peizer
10:30am-12:00am Amanita Choice Edible Mushrooms of California's North Coast
Daniel Winkler
10:30am-12:00am Boletus The Fractal Nature of Us
Zachary Hunter
10:30am-12:00am Chanterelle iNaturalist Deep Dive - Observations, Projects, and Data Mining
Damon Tighe
11:00am-12:00am Dentinum Edible Mushrooms and Lookalikes
Carrie Staller
1:00pm-4:00pm Harriman Hall-Front Mushrooms To Dye For
Wilder Herbertson
1:00pm-2:30pm Amanita Mushrooms and Mother Nature: Timing and Tuning In
Jill Nussinow
1:00pm-2:30pm Boletus Mushrooms of Sonoma County
David Healy
1:00pm-2:30pm Chanterelle East Bay Fungal Genomics project
Mario Gabiati 
Cole Pruitt
1:00pm-4:00pm Harriman Hall-Rear Small Weavings with Mushroom Dyed Fiber
Liz Duckworth
1:00pm-4:00pm Harriman Hall-Rear Molding (and casting) Mushies 
Meredith Scheff-King
1:00pm-4:00pm Art Shack How To Draw A Mushroom with Chris Adams
Christopher Adams
1:30pm-3:00pm Main Hall - Cooking Demo Mushroom Miso Fermentation Class 
Eleana Hsu and Kevin Gondo
2:30pm-4:00pm Amanita Mushrooms for Body, Mind and Spirit
Jill Nussinow
2:30pm-4:00pm Boletus Fungal Friendships
Cat Adams
2:30pm-4:00pm Chanterelle Understanding the Genes of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi
Brittany Long
Saturday Evening Activities
Time Location Class/Workshop Instructor
4:00pm-6:00pm Main Hall Wine, Cheese, and Convivial Hobnobbing
Staff
4:00pm-6:00pm Spore-Zone Tent Music in the Tent!
5:00pm-6:00pm Main Hall Silent Auction - Tables Close every 10 minutes
Rachel Zierdt
6:00pm-7:20pm Main Hall Dinner Extravaganza!
Jennifer Levine
7:30pm-9:00pm Main Hall Saturday Keynote - Maria Pinto
9:00pm-10:00pm Front Doors of Main Hall UV Light Foray on CYO Grounds
Staff
Sunday January 19, 2025
Sunday Main Hall Activities
Time Activity Location Leader
7:00am-8:30am Main Hall CYO Breakfast Service
CYO Services
8:30am-10:00am Main Hall Pack your Lunch (NO LUNCH SERVED AT NOON)
CYO Services
8:30am-6:00pm Main Hall SOMA Bookstore T-Shirts, Signed Books, and Hand-Made Crafts!
Staff
11:00am-6:00pm Spore-Zone Tent Mushroom Identification Tables
George Riner 
Mikhael Selk
Sunday Forays
Time Location Title/Location Leader
8:45am-3:00pm Front Doors of Main Hall SPSP II: Upper Stump Beach (Limit 20)
Aaron Miller 
Michael Miller
9:00am-3:00pm Front Doors of Main Hall SPSP I: Woodside - Central Trail
Mike McCurdy 
Carrie Staller
9:00am-12:00am Front Doors of Main Hall Sweat the small stuff! 
Damon Tighe
9:15am-2:00pm Front Doors of Main Hall Bohemia Preserve (Limit 25)
Staff  
Jessica Holloway
9:30am-3:00pm Front Doors of Main Hall Westminster Woods
David Salomon
11:00am-3:00pm Front Doors of Main Hall Tour a truffle orchard! 
Stephanie Jarvis
1:00pm-4:00pm Front Doors of Main Hall Art in the Field: Foray & Drawing Workshop with Chris Adams
Christopher Adams
Sunday Classes
Time Location Class/Workshop Instructor
9:00am-12:00pm Main Hall Beginning Needle Felting
Judy Christensen
9:00am-10:30am Amanita Medicinal Mushrooms: From Ancient Remedies to Modern Science
Alexander Sherman
9:00am-10:30am Boletus Truffles: Nature’s Nuggets of Gold 
Stephanie Jarvis
9:00am-12:00pm Chanterelle Follow-up Class to Make Pigments from Mushrooms Gathered on the Saturday Foray
Ang Pohle
9:00am-3:00pm Dentinum Microscopy for Mycology
Mike Wood 
Brian Perry
9:00am-12:00pm Harriman Hall-Rear Mushroom Cyanotypes (SunPrints)
Karen Rusiniak
9:00am-12:00pm Harriman Hall-Rear Weave Yorkshire Buttons with Mushroom Dyed Yarn
Melanie Perkins
9:00am-12:00pm Harriman Hall-Front Dying wool samples with lichens 
Janet Heppler
9:00am-12:00pm Art Shack Sketchbook Mushroom Watercolor Journaling
Sharon Eisley
10:30am-12:30am Amanita Intro to Cultivation: Hands-on Workshop on Establishing and Maintaining Fungal Cultures
Scott McKeown 
Alex Pruessner
1:00pm-2:30pm Amanita Applied Cultivation: Myco-Technologies and Commercial Innovations
Alexander Sherman
1:00pm-2:30pm Chanterelle Identifying Mushrooms for Natural Dyeing: A Beginner’s Guide to Local Fungi and Preparation Techniques
Toni Sardelis
1:00pm-4:00pm Harriman Hall-Front Using mushrooms to dye both wool yarn and silk samples
Janet Heppler
1:00pm-4:00pm Harriman Hall-Rear Air dry clay mushrooms
Elizabeth Vermillion
1:00pm-4:00pm Harriman Hall-Rear Watercolor Techniques for Technical Mushroom Drawing 
Holly Bazeley
1:00pm-4:00pm Art Shack Linoleum block printing on cards and tea towels
Kathy Yerich
2:00pm-4:00pm Spore-Zone Tent Oyster Mushroom Kits and Cultivation Overview
John Grant and
Ryath Beauchene
2:30pm-4:00pm Amanita Establishing the First Fungarium at College of the Redwoods
Toni Sardelis
Sunday Evening Activities
Time Activity Location Leader
4:00pm-6:00pm Main Hall Wine, Beer, and Convivial Hobnobbing
Staff
5:00pm-5:30pm Main Hall FASHION SHOW!! - Bring your mushroom outfit and get dressed up!
Stephanie Jarvis
6:00pm-8:00pm Main Hall Dinner Extravaganza!
Daniel Kedan
8:00pm-9:00pm Main Hall Movie Night!
Dr. Gordon Walker
9:00pm-10:00pm Front Doors of Main Hall UV Light Foray on CYO Grounds
Staff
Monday January 20, 2025
Monday Main Hall Activities
Time Activity Location Leader
7:00am-8:30am Main Hall CYO Breakfast Service
CYO Services
8:00am-11:00am Main Hall SOMA Bookstore Closes at 11am
Staff
12:00pm-1:00pm Main Hall Lunch - Self service by CYO
CYO Services
1:00pm-2:00pm Main Hall Cabin Cleanup & Camp Takedown
Staff
Monday Classes
Time Location Class/Workshop Instructor
8:30am-10:00am Main Hall "Try it and See" - Hosted by Dorothy Beebee and her Family
Dorothy Beebee 
Myra Beebee
9:00am-12:00pm Harriman Hall-Front Ink & Paint: History and Precipitation of Pigment from Mushrooms
Meredith Scheff-King
10:00am-11:00am Amanita Lessons from Mexico
Zachary Hunter
10:00am-11:00am Boletus Best of Mushroaming
Daniel Winkler
10:00am-11:00am Chanterelle Fungimental Mycophagy--A sophisticated look at the basics of eating wild mushrooms
David Campbell
11:00am-12:00pm Spore-Zone Tent Specimen Table Discussion - All are Welcome to Participate in Discussion
George Riner 
Mikhael Selk
1:30pm-3:30pm Mycopia Gourmet Mushrooms Tour of Mycopia Mushrooms in Sebastopol
Justin Reyes