Fungus Federation Santa Cruz

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Followers
21
Account age
1 yrs

📊 Post engagement

2
Avg engagement / post
9.5%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2024
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: The final species count for the 2025 Santa Cruz Fungus Fair is i · 4 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.94 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
🔥 Top post The final species count for the 2025 Santa Cruz Fungus Fair is in! Even though we’ve been having a relatively dry year, mycophiles who attended the Fair last weekend brought in 201 unique species of mushrooms! Thank you to all who brought in species for us to study and display t… ★ 4
We’re having our monthly meeting tonight, 2/19, at 6:30 pm. Our meetings are a great opportunity to meet local mycophiles and learn about mushrooms. After the introductions and snacking, John Mizell will be giving a talk on basic wildernes… ★ 2 Thanks to all who joined us at the Fungus Fair this past weekend! For those who need more mushrooms in their life (i.e. everyone!), we have our monthly meeting tonight, where naturalist and author Christian Schwarz will give his talk: “Fun… ★ 1 The Santa Cruz fungus fair is already starting in a week! To buy advance tickets, or to signup to volunteer at the fair, please see our website: https://ffsc.us/fair/2025/about #mushrooms #fungi #mycology #santacruz ★ 3 We need volunteers for the 2025 Santa Cruz Fungus Fair! Putting on the fair is a huge undertaking and we couldn’t do it without the support of all of our wonderful volunteers each year! Volunteering for the fair is a lot of fun, plus volun… Our friends over at the Mycological Society of San Francisco are hosting their wonderful #fungus fair on Sunday, December 8th! There will be lectures and workshops from renowned #mushroom experts, displays of local #sfba mushrooms, yummy f… ★ 3 This concludes the series on #fungi that you might find in the #sfba and Santa Cruz mountains after these first rains we're getting! Finally: Remember, when collecting #mushrooms that you intend on eating, it is always best to triple chec… ★ 2 (part 5, mushrooms that can be used to make natural fabric dyes) Phaeolus schweinitzii (https://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Phaeolus_schweinitzii.html) known as Dyer's Polypore, this fuzzy #mushroom can be found growing near the base of c… ★ 1 (part 4, Amanita and Agaricus) Amanita muscaria (https://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Amanita_muscaria.html) Also known as the Fly Agaric, this #mushroom can be easily spotted and is known to grow near Porcini, so use this as an indicator s… (part 3, edible mushrooms that grow on dead wood) Pleurotus ostreatus (https://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Pleurotus_ostreatus.html) commonly known as the oyster #mushroom, one can identify this by it's strongly decurrent gills, short stip… ★ 2 (part 2, chanterelles and potential look-alikes) Cantharellus californicus (https://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Cantharellus_californicus.html) A choice edible, and the largest species of chanterelle in the world. These are endemic to Cali… ★ 1 For those who missed last night's FFSC meeting, here are some of the #mushrooms mentioned by our speaker, Phil Carpenter, that generally come up in the Santa Cruz area after the first rains: Boletus edulis (https://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/spe… ★ 3

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
sfba.social
A the SF Bay Area server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2024
An established account with real history on the platform.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2024 — 1 year ago.
👁️Averages 2 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.9× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

71/100 Good
  • Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Strong engagement (~9.5% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
Est. authentic audience
92%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
Medium

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

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The official mastodon account of the FFSC. We’ll post updates here about our upcoming mushroom events!

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