Lake Cowichan Mushroom Salmon Festival

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Saturday, September 23rd, 2017
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Each year our festival gets bigger and better...seventeen years of community support and eagerness to learn about the salmon and wild mushrooms from the Cowichan Valley.

Last year over seven hundred adults and children attended! Enjoy the various vendors selling jewelry, preserves, fresh produce, home baked goods and lots of mushroom growing kits. As well, local artists have joined the celebration, and many of the area's painters, ceramists and artisans are offering their vision of the beautiful nature that the valley offers.

Mushroom expert, Ingeborg Woodsworth, provides information with her mushroom display and an opportunity for guests to have Ingeborg identify any fungi brought in by them. .

Admission to the festival gives each person a chance to win two spaces in an Ingeborg Woodsworth mushroom workshop valued at $80. Always a sellout, the Fungi Cafe will again serve up delicious salmon and mushroom based recipes, allfor $5! During the weeks ahead, rain willing, Ingeborg and friends pick the mushrooms for display andto fuel the Cafe!

We offer a children's table for young ones to get involved by creating their own art with salmon and mushroom forms. But for many of our visitors, the big attraction is the Saturday field trip. Each year we have up to 100 people for this fungi-gathering and identification trip into our local woods. New this year, reserve your space in our paint night. We provide everything you will need for use at the event: canvas, paints and brushes. The creative process will last about two hours, at the end of which you get to take home your new masterpiece. Space is limited to 20 painters, preregistration is encouraged.

Please see our website to register or for more information. So come and join in the fun...there's "Magic" at the Lake Cowichan Salmon, Mushroom Festival!

Lake Cowichan Centennial Hall. 309 S Shore Road, Lake Cowichan, BC

Wheelchair accessible. Free Parking.