The Australian Mushroom Festival 2023 was a massive success, with the AMGA delivering this premier event to a crowd of 10,000 + mushroom-loving fans on World Mushroom Day.

🍄9 mushroom food vendors that served mushroom dishes such as mushroom truffle and cheese toasties, to mushroom pizza, and mushroom and chive donuts with sour cream.

🍄The much celebrated Mushroom Bar with its Al Porcini Draught quenched the thirst of festival goers.

🍄The thriving mushroom growing activation showed the crowds how mushrooms grow.

🍄 Plus we had roving artists, face painters and incredible music performances.

The highlight of the event was the Mushroom Masterclass stage that featured live cooking demo’s and educational talks by some of Australia’s most exciting foodie talent including Celebrity Chef Miguel Maestre, Chef Jason Roberts, Simon Toohey from TV show ‘Freshly Picked’, MasterChef Alumni Dani Venn and Melbourne Business of the Year winner Hakim Halim from Ripe Cheese.

Each guest at the Australian Mushroom Festival also walked away with an Australian Mushroom tote bag and a gorgeous glossy mushroom magazine filled with summer entertaining recipes to try at home.

AMGA tells special thanks go to Georgia Beattie from Bulla Park who braved the stage and cooked and spoke about mushrooms across both days of the festival and Costa who generously donated the mushroom growing beds and signs.

Australia is a bright country with very high consumprion of mushrooms. It is the result of AMGA work making such prominent projects!

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