04/18/2026
Hey neighbors!
We need more champagne corks asap! 🍾
For the 7th annual free Earth Week "mushroom hunt" happening in Gerstle Park on Saturday, April 25, 10 AM to noon.
Basically, we hand paint champagne (not wine) corks to look like mushrooms, "plant" them in the ground at a specific address, and people of all ages are welcome to come "pick" them and "replan them in their yards, trails, and even during their travels around the world.
This free community event started during COVID and the mushrooms have been "planted" as far away as Europe and Malawi, Africa!
The fifth annual event was featured in the Marin IJ, and the Pacific Sun (see the final photos or here https://pacificsun.com/fungi-fun-5th-annual-earth-day-mushroom-hunt/
But this year, we're running a little low on champagne corks. Normally, we paint around 300 of them. I just looked at my supply and I have only about 100 donated champagne corks.
So if you have champagne (not wine) corks lying around, and you're willing to drop them off soon at an address in Gerstle Park, please comment below!
San Rafael’s Earth Day Mushroom “Hunt” is here for its 5th consecutive year of spreading joy and good cheer to Marin’s citizens. And all it takes to do such an amazing thing and light up a community is some Champagne corks, paint and a spark of creativity. The concept is simple for those unf...
