The Wild Mushroom takes place from 1 to 5 p.m. on Nov. 2 at Olympic College.

Kitsap’s Mycological Society members will harvest 200 species and have them on display at the show.

Experts and authors will appear, including Port Orchard's Aaron Hilliard, host of Mushroom Wonderland on Youtube

HANSVILLE -- Sunlight pokes through the canopy around Buck Lake near Hansville as members of the Kitsap Peninsula Mycological Society (KPMS) scan the understory for specific signs of life. Soon, they surround a dead, moss-covered stump to sniff and study the features of one of their targets: a mushroom.

Autumn weather in the Pacific Northwest can be perfect for many, but especially if you're a mushroom. Many of Kitsap Peninsula's forests become busy with hundreds of species of mushroom-producing fungi

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