Mushroom Mountain Events

Discover the world of wild mushrooms from the comfort of home!

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Discover the hidden world beneath your feet!
Join us for a 90-minute guided tour through one of the most unique farms in Upstate South Carolina.

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Earn your 5-year Wild Mushroom Foraging Permit, formally approved by state health departments for the legal harvesting and selling of wild mushrooms in: South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Alabama, Pennsylvania, New York, and Rhode Island.

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Registrants will receive a study guide and slide deck approximately one month before class to help prepare for the training and exams.

Enrollment is limited to 30 participants. Due to the nature of this certification, no refunds are available, though we may be able to transfer your seat to another session in the event of an emergency.

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Location

Mushroom Mountain
200 Finley Rd.
Easley, SC 29642

Accommodations: Click Here

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Dates & Hours

March 14–15, 2026
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM both days

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Instructor: Anne-Marie Bilella

Anne-Marie is the Farmer, the Baker, and the Medicine-Maker behind Bella Vista Farm in Georgia. With deep expertise in herbal medicine, wild weeds, mushrooms, and natural product formulation, she brings decades of hands-on experience to the classroom.

Her herbal foundation began through self-study and expanded in 2014 when she completed a 10-month intensive training with Patricia Kyritsi Howell of BotanoLogos School of Herbal Studies. Anne-Marie is certified as both a Wild Mushroom Forager and Seller, and she serves as an instructor for the Wild Mushroom Safety Course with Mushroom Mountain.

She is also the creator of the Forager Chick herbal product line, a seasoned homesteader, and a published author with bylines in Aroma Culture Magazine, Mother Earth News – Herbal Living, and her own long-running blog.

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Certification Requirements

State laws require that all wild-foraged mushroom species intended for sale must be individually inspected and verified by an approved mushroom identification expert who:

(A) Has demonstrated the required knowledge and passed the appropriate exams, and
(B) Harvests only from the list of permitted species:
https://mushroommountain.com/approved-mushrooms-by-state/

This course provides the training and examinations necessary to meet those standards.

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General Schedule

(Subject to change)

Day 1

9:00 AM – Arrival & Registration
9:15 AM – Permit Overview, Exam Guidelines, Handling & Storage, Packaging, Safety Regulations, Ethical Foraging, Forest Protection, Picking for Resale, State Regulations, Toxic Species & Treatments
10:30 AM – Guided Mushroom Hunt & Collections
12:00 PM – Lunch Break (bring your own), ID Photo Session
1:00 PM – Gallery of Tested Species & Lookalikes; Fresh & Dried Specimen Dissections
3:00–4:00 PM – Continued Dissections & Identification
4:00–5:00 PM – Review Session for Exam 1

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Day 2

9:00 AM – Exam 1
10:00 AM – Gallery of Permitted Species & Key Identification Features
11:00 AM–1:00 PM – Lunch Break & Independent Study (looping slides available)
1:00–5:00 PM – Final Exam

📍 Where: Mushroom Mountain Farm, 200 Finley Rd, Easley, SC
📅 When: March 21, 2026 | 9 AM – 4 PM

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Grow your own mushrooms and discover the magic beneath your feet!

This immersive, hands-on workshop explores the world of fungi and practical mushroom cultivation techniques.

You’ll learn about fungal ecology and life cycles, and gain hands-on experience cultivating mushrooms on logs, stumps, wood chips, straw and other agricultural byproducts. Together, we’ll design mushroom gardens, explore composting and recycling with fungi, and tour the working Mushroom Mountain farm — including our lab, colonization and fruiting rooms, and the woodland mushroom trail, where you’ll see a variety of mushrooms fruiting in their natural habitats.

🎁 What’s included:

• Breakfast snacks and a delicious lunch
• A shiitake log you’ll inoculate and take home
• An oyster mushroom fruiting kit to keep your learning going

🧑🏫 Taught by the Mushroom Mountain team — passionate educators with decades of experience cultivating, teaching, and spreading the fungal gospel.

Please note: This workshop focuses on outdoor cultivation and does not cover sterile culture techniques in a lab setting.

If the class fills up, waiting list requests will be accepted in case of cancellations.

Grow your own mushrooms and discover the magic beneath your feet!

This immersive, hands-on workshop explores the world of fungi and practical mushroom cultivation techniques.

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