The Northeast Mycological Federation is pleased to announce

the dates and venue for our 2024 foray!

 

October 11-14, 2024

 

NEMF 2024 will be held in Hyannis, MA at The Cape Cod Irish Village from Friday, October 11 – Monday, October 14, 2024. This Cape Cod resort and conference center will offer an excellent venue for our foray with many opportunities for great walks local to the surrounding seashore, national parks, and other natural areas.

This year’s host clubs are the Boston Mycological Club (BMC), Monadnock Mushroomers (MMU), the Pioneer Valley Mycological Association (PVMA), and the Cape Cod Mycological Society (CCMS), with support from other wonderful clubs such as the Rhode Island Mycological Society (RIMS) and many individuals from our myco-community.

More details will be announced in the coming months, with registration likely opening in April.

Welcome to NEMF! – Northeast Mycological Federation!

NEMF was incorporated as a New York not-for-profit organization with the following mission:
“To stimulate interest in mycology and to provide a forum where both amateur and professional mycologists can share their experiences and knowledge and work together cooperatively in studying the fungal flora of Northeastern America for scientific and educational purposes….”

NEMF history (by Sandy Sheine)
The first Northeast Mycological Foray (NEMF) was founded in 1976 by 1. New Jersey Mycological Association (NJMA) members Grete Turcheck, Gertrude Espenscheid and Neil McDonald; 2. by New York Mycological Society (NYMS) members Sylvia Stein, Marge Morris, Emil Lang, John Cage, Lois Long and Guy Nearing and; 3. by Connecticut-Westchester Mycological Association (COMA) members Bud and Ann Schwartz, Tommy and Gordon Fox, Marge and Dave Morris, Sylvia and Philip Stein, Sandy and Jerry Sheine, Naomi Stern, Selma Miriam, Joe Florian, Walter and Mary Plant, Carol Levine, Roz Lowen, Evelyn and Reginald Archibald, Gary Lincoff, Ed Bosman, and Judith Bothwell. The first NEMF Foray was held at PEEC, Pocono Environmental Education Center in Pennsylvania.

Currently, the Federation consists of about twenty clubs, ranging from Canada to Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

NEMF’s main activity is its annual foray.
On a rotating basis member clubs or groups of clubs host three days of fungus collection and identification, lectures and workshops. Topics often include fungus identification, mycophagy, medicinal uses, textile dyeing, papermaking and photography.

The NEMF 2023 Foray was held on September 14-17 at Soyuzivka, in Kerhonkson, NY.

The Foray sold out with 250 people in attendance. We were blessed with “purchase order” weather. There were 19 presentations and workshops, 14 walks, 3 evening programs, 3 socials and nearly 500 species of fungi identified with scores more out for DNA analysis. By any measure the foray was a great success.

NEMF 2022 was hosted in Joliette, Quebec and had 144 participants.