Urban Mycology Workshop 🍄

This workshop is offered on a sliding scale
$30-$60

A day of learning to grow, work with & appreciate the fungus among us!

Join us in the garden for a special day-long workshop all about fungi! This workshop is a collaboration with Fig Leaf Gardens and Symbiioitica, a myco-ecological education team based in Sonoma County. We’ll be covering a range of topics, sitting at the intersections of mycology, horticulture, culinary arts, and herbalism. We’ll cover basics of fungal biology and ecology and  discuss the mushrooms regularly observed in urban garden habitats and their role in the garden. We’ll demonstrate various ways to add a “fungal dimension” to your garden or food forest, aka cultivating mushrooms through buckets, patch style and logs with as much demonstration or hands-on activity as possible. Additionally, we will delve into the nutrition and medicine of fungi and have tastings of fungal foods and mushroom/herbal syrups and tinctures.

Please bring water and lunch/snacks (bonus points for bringing snacks to share!), clothes that can get slightly messy and any necessary weather-related gear. You may also want to bring work gloves.

WHEN:
Sunday, June 28
10am - 3pm
Lunch break in between!

WHERE:
Fig Leaf Gardens
4046 39th Ave, Oakland

COST PER PERSON:
$30-$60 sliding scale

Use the following discount codes at checkout to pay what you'd like:
FUNGI50- $50 class
FUNGI40- $40 class
FUNGI30- $30 class

Hope to see you there! 

ABOUT OUR FUNGI TEACHERS:

TAYE BRIGHT

Taye is a mycologist, naturalist, artist and all-around biophile passionate about fungal ecology, plant-fungal symbioses, ethnomycology, community science and conservation. She is especially interested in allying with fungi to encourage ecological literacy, create life-ways in alignment with bioregional intelligence and uplift cultural narratives that encourage interspecies reciprocity. She is currently pursuing her MS at CSU East Bay studying fungi of the Sierra Nevada fens and holds a B.S. in Biology and Environmental Science, certifications in Permaculture Design and Ecosystem Restoration Design, and is a certified UC California Naturalist.

Taye is a field mycologist for the California Fungal Diversity Survey and volunteers for the West Coast Rare Fungi challenge. She is the Education and Outreach coordinator for CoRenewal, on the Conservation and Stewardship committee for the North American Mycological Association, and sits on the board of directors for the Sonoma County Mycological Association. She is also a member of the Mycological Society of America. Outside of her research, she leads classes, courses, workshops and walks around California and beyond, focusing on increasing accessibility of mycological and ecological education outside of conventional academia.

RYATH FUJITA BEAUCHENE 

Ryath is a Californian myco-centric educator and the Vice President of the Sonoma County Mycological Association. Ryath has been a mushroom forager, cultivator, researcher, and herbalist for sixteen years and teaches about fungal ecology, ethnomycology, mushroom identification & cultivation, herbalism/fungalism, and the functional mushroom industry. He is a co-steward of both Moon Fruit Mushroom Farm and Symbiiotica as well as an estate manager and horticulturist with particular interests in adaptogens, cooking, semantics, symbiosis and how ecosystem health includes human health. Ryath also makes custom formulations for private clients with herbs and mushrooms and you can find him on Instagram @funga.dragon. It is Ryath's hope that by showing people the valuable potency of natural medicines we may become more devoted and reciprocal in our relationships to our planet's diverse ecologies and peoples.