In the weeks before the festival local pensioners disperse into the woods on their three wheeled "APE" vehicles and in little 4x4 Pandas, heading for jealously guarded secret locations to return laden with stories designed to misguide and piles of enormous CEP mushrooms. The mushrooms themselves are cooked in all sorts of ways, the favourite being simply grilled like steak on vast broiling barbecues.
Centre stage in the village is an enormous statue of 2 mushrooms, called "Mushrooms in love".
Other activities are also planned during the event, like mountain bike races, classic car shows and music in the evenings - but mainly it's all about enormous amounts of mushrooms, sausages and steak, washed down with red wine!
