SOMA 2025 Camp Schedule

Friday January 17, 2025
Friday Main Hall Activities
Time Location Activity Manager
11:00am-6:00pm Main Hall Friday Arrivals - Check in to SOMA Camp after 11:00am Melissa Jaffray
11:00am-6:00pm Main Hall Silent Auction - Drop Off starts at 11:00am Rachel Zierdt
11:00am-6:00pm Main Hall SOMA Bookstore T-Shirts, Signed Books, and Hand-Made Crafts! Staff
2:00pm-6:00pm Main Hall Mushroom Identification Tables George Riner & Mikhael Selk
Friday Forays
Time Starting Point Title/Location Foray Leader
11:00am-2:00pm Meet at Foray Location On-The-Way-to-Camp Foray at Pt. Reyes National Park Staff & Mikhael Selk
11:00am-2:00pm Meet at Foray Location Sonoma Foray on Friday before Camp! Dr. Gordon Walker
1:30pm-4:30pm Front Doors of Main Hall CYO Grounds Foray David Healy
Friday Classes
Time Location Class/Workshop Presenter
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 Printing with Plants and Lichen Mayumi Fujio
4:00pm-5:30pm Main Hall - Cooking Demo 12 Ways to Preserve Chanterelles Trent & Kristen Blizzard
4:00pm-5:30pm Amanita Fungal Range Maps Thea Chesney
Friday Evening Activities
Time Location Activity Presenter
5:30pm-7:30pm Main Hall Wine, Beer, and Convivial Hobnobbing Staff
6:00pm-7:00pm Main Hall Friday Mushroom Pizza & Salad Dinner Jennifer Levine
7:30pm-8:30pm Main Hall Friday Keynote: Fungi Through Time, by Dr. Cat Adams Cat Adams
Saturday January 18, 2025
Saturday Main Hall Activities
Time Location Activity Manager
7:30am-8:30am Main Hall Muffins, Fruit, and Coffee Staff
8:00am-11:00am Main Hall Saturday Check-in to SOMA Camp Staff & Melanie Perkins
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
12:00pm-1:00pm Main Hall Lunch - Self service by CYO CYO Services
1:00pm-5:00pm Main Hall DNA Lab - Open for drop-in questions and observation Harte Singer
2:00pm-6:00pm Spore-Zone Tent Mushroom Identification Tables George Riner & Mikhael Selk
Saturday Forays
Time Meeting Point Title/Location Foray 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 Presenter
8:30am-9:00am Boletus ORIENTATION (optional) Staff
9:00am-10:30am Amanita Medicinal Mushrooms Trent (and Kristen) Blizzard
9:00am-10:30am Boletus Best Mushrooms for Beginners Autumn Summers
9:00am-11:00am Chanterelle An Introduction to Mushroom Identification Jon Sommer
9:00am-10:30am Dentinum Ecology of the Invasive Death Cap in California Cecelia Stokes
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-12:00pm Harriman Hall-Rear Mushroom Henna Sidnee Ober-Singleton
9:00am-12:00pm 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 Williams-Hunter
11:00am-12:00am Chanterelle Edible Mushrooms and Lookalikes Autumn Summers & Carrie Staller
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 Harriman Hall-Front Mushrooms To Dye For Wilder Herbertson
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 Chanterelle Understanding the Genes of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi Brittany Long
2:30pm-4:00pm Boletus Shitake Cultivation and History Paul Lagreze
Saturday Evening Activities
Time Location Activity Presenter
3:00pm-5:00pm Main Hall Microscopy Drop-In Lab Peter Werner & Acorn Steed
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 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 Location Activity Manager
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
12:00pm-4:00pm Main Hall DNA Lab - Open for drop-in questions and observation Harte Singer
2:00pm-6:00pm Spore-Zone Tent Mushroom Identification Tables George Riner & Mikhael Selk
Sunday Forays
Time Meeting Point Title/Location Foray 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
1:00pm-3:30pm Front Doors of Main Hall Moonfruit Mushroom Farm Tour Ryath Beauchene
Sunday Classes
Time Location Class/Workshop Presenter
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 Main Hall Beginning Needle Felting Judy Christensen
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-12:30pm Amanita Intro to Cultivation: Hands-on Workshop on Establishing and Maintaining Fungal Cultures Scott McKeown & Alex Pruessner
12:00pm-2:00pm Chanterelle Identifying Mushrooms for Natural Dyeing: A Beginner’s Guide to Local Fungi and Preparation Techniques Toni Sardelis
1:00pm-3:30pm Amanita Applied Cultivation: Myco-Technologies and Commercial Innovations Alexander Sherman
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 Drawing techniques to make your mushrooms realistic and identifiable Holly Bazeley
1:00pm-4:00pm Art Shack Linoleum block printing on cards and tea towels Kathy Yerich & Kristen Blizzard
2:00pm-3:30pm Boletus iNaturalist Deep Dive - Observations, Projects, and Data Mining Damon Tighe
2:00pm-3:30pm Chanterelle Establishing the First Fungarium at College of the Redwoods Toni Sardelis
Sunday Evening Activities
Time Location Activity Presenter
2:00pm-4:00pm Main Hall Mycroscopy Drop-In Lab Janai Southworth
3:30pm-4:30pm Main Hall - Cooking Demo Wild Mushroom Tastings - 4 Stations Dr. Gordon Walker & Julie Schreiber
4:00pm-6:00pm Main Hall Wine, Beer, and Convivial Hobnobbing Staff
5:30pm-6:00pm 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 Location Activity Manager
7:00am-8:30am Main Hall CYO Breakfast Service CYO Services
8:00am-11:00am Main Hall SOMA Bookstore Closes at 11am Staff
8:30am-10:00am Main Hall "Try it and See" - Hosted by Dorothy Beebee and her Family Dorothy Beebee & Myra Beebee
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 Presenter
9:00am-12:00pm Harriman Hall-Front Ink & Paint: History and Precipitation of Pigment from Mushrooms Meredith Scheff-King
9:00am-12:00pm Art Shack Illustration as Meditation Renee Baumann
10:00am-11:00am Amanita Lessons from Mexico Zachary Williams-Hunter
10:00am-11:00am Boletus Fungimental Mycophagy--A sophisticated look at the basics of eating wild mushrooms David Campbell
10:00am-11:00am Chanterelle Best of Mushroaming Daniel Winkler
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