08/28/2026
🍄 FUNGI FEST at the Historic Marion Tailgate Market! 🍄
📅 Saturday, September 5th, 2026
⏰ 9AM – 1PM
📍 67 W Henderson St, Marion, NC 28752
Welcome to Fungi Fest... the most magical market of the season!
The Historic Marion Tailgate Market is going full fungi this September and we want YOU there! Whether you're a mushroom enthusiast, a curious foodie, a family looking for a fun Saturday morning, or someone who just wants to paint a mushroom and eat something delicious... well this event is for you. 🍄💚
🍄 WHAT TO EXPECT🍄
Fresh Culinary Mushrooms: Meet specialty mushroom growers and take home some of the most incredible fungi our region has to offer
🌿 Foraging & ID Tools: Learn how to identify and sustainably forage wild mushrooms 🧪 Mushroom Products: Tinctures, teas, salts, seasonings, and so much more 🍳 Free Cooking Demos & Tastings: Cathy from NC Cooperative Extension- McDowell County Center will be cooking up seasonal mushroom goodness right before your eyes. Come taste and take home a recipe!
🎵 Live Music: Freddy Bradburn & Friends bringing the tunes all morning
📚 The Bookmobile: McDowell County Public Library Bookmobile will be on site for 🎨 Kids Zone: Where you can browse, check out a book, and paint your own mushroom to take home! All can enter the Mushroom Costume Contest, happening at noon! What's your best fungi look? 🍄👑🛒 All Your Favorite Market Vendors: Fresh produce, local meats, artisan baked goods, cheese, honey, handmade crafts and more
💳 SNAP/EBT ACCEPTED and DOUBLED up to $20 for produce and mushrooms! This means your SNAP dollars go TWICE as far at Fungi Fest. Fresh, local, nutritious food for everyone in our community. 💚
🍄 MEET THE MUSHROOM SPECIALISTS
🍄 Blue Ridge Chaga Connection 🍄 Goods 🍄 Rhizing
Three incredible specialty vendors bringing the best of our region's fungi culture right to the market!
🍄 DID YOU KNOW?
Mushrooms have been used for healing for thousands of years across Chinese medicine, ancient Japan, 16th-century Russia, and Native American cultures. They are the only food that naturally produces vitamin D when exposed to sunlight. Rich in B vitamins, potassium, and antioxidants, mushrooms contain powerful compounds that support immune health and help defend against disease.
Simply put... mushrooms are magic. Come discover that magic for yourself at Fungi Fest! 🍄✨
🌱 WHO'S AT FUNGI FEST
🍄 Mushroom Specialists: Blue Ridge Chaga Connection · Wild Goods · Myco Rhizing
🌱 From the Farm: Rust Mountain Farm · Montford Cove Farm · Long Acres · NC Farmers of the Foothills · Mayapple Trading Company · Purple Buffalo Farms, LLC
🥩 Meat & Eggs: Edwards Family Farms · Hendricks Farmstead
🍞 Baked Goods: Four Sisters Bakery · Storyline - Sourdough and Sweets
🧀 Specialty Goods: Three Sisters Cheese & Provisions · Hendley's Farm · Queen of Cups Coffee · Purple Buffalo Lemonade
🎨 Artisan Makers: Nellie's Quilts, Aprons & Pillows · Double G Homestead · Poppy's Wildcraft LLC · Charlie's Ceramics · Harmon-E Goods and Wildcraft
📚 Special Guest: County Public Library Bookmobile
This event is FREE and open to the community!
Presented by the Historic Marion Tailgate Market & McDowell LFAC Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Marion 💚
Questions? Reach out to Kelly Sunshine at 828-289-5553
Tell your family. Tell your neighbors. Tell Bigfoot. 👣🍄
