BY PEPPER FISHER

Port Angeles – Few local festivals in recent memory have grown as quickly as the annual Olympic Peninsula Fungi Festival, now in its fourth year.

Founded in 2022 by David and Shana Rogers as the Port Angeles Fungi festival, it was a one day event that drew about 250 attendees. Last year, the renamed Olympic Peninsula Fungi Festival welcomed 3,000 visitors over 4 days, included 44 craft and art vendors, a mushroom food court and beer garden, 20 educational booths, and hosted world-renowned speakers on the subject of mushrooms.

This year’s fourth annual event promises to be even bigger in its scope and layout. The festival dates are listed as Saturday and Sunday, October 18 and 19, but there’s more. Much more. On Thursday, October 2, they’re hosting a pre-fest event at 6:

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