Telluride Mushroom Festival brings together leading mycologists, artists, foragers and enthusiasts to explore all things fungi. We focus on science, culture, and community, covering topics like psychedelic research, cultivation, decriminalization, and identification. More than just a festival, it is an annual reunion for fungi folks to gather and celebrate fungi and their impact on our world.

This year’s theme is “Rewild” and will feature a raft of myco-luminaries including Mark Plotkin, world-renowned ethnobotanist best known for his work with Indigenous peoples of the Amazon and for popularizing the idea that rainforest conservation must center Indigenous knowledge. His book Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice is still one of the most influential works in the field. Founder/director of Chile’s Fundación Fungi, Giuliana Furci, Mushroom Mountain’s Tradd Cotter, Eugenia Bone (author of Mycophilia and the recent best-seller Have a Good Trip), and the weed & shroom-loving Wise Woman of the San Juans, Katrina Blair. And we are absolutely thrilled to announce that two relative newcomers who have burst onto the scene with best-selling books recently, “Chaotic Forager” Gabriele Cerberville (Gathered: On Foraging, Feasting, and the Seasonal Life) and Maria Pinto (Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival), will also be featured in this year’s very full lineup of more than 50 presenters.

So, what is rewilding, you ask? Rewilding has emerged as one of the most imaginative movements in global conservation, built on the intuitive idea that ecosystems can regain vitality and self-direction when the processes that once shaped them are restored. Rather than protecting single species, it revives relationships—migration, predation, grazing, disturbance, succession—that let landscapes function as dynamic, resilient systems. Though the term is new, its roots echo Indigenous stewardship, and today five broad models offer distinct visions shaped by local histories, ecologies, and cultural values.

Locals can receive 10% off a festival pass using code: TELLURIDELOCAL10