Dalton cultivates a few gourmet species including Cordyceps, as well as hosts forays and workshops and educational talks with the local community. His goal is to be more a part of the educational network of mycologists including Rad Myco as he believes that education is the most important tool for others to make a change with mushrooms.
Friday | 11 am
Prepare and Preserve: How to Use and Store Your Fungal Finds
Torch
Saturday | 7:30 am
Sprouting Spore Morning Yoga Flow
Torch
Sunday | 4 pm
Intro to Cordyceps Cultivation
Torch
Kevin Blue
Bozeman, MT
Kevin Blue is an entheogen enthusiast, permaculturista, radical mycologist, evolutionary herbalist, 500 hour RYT yoga teacher, Primordial breathwork facilitator and sound ceremonialist. From the peaks of the Andes to the malokas of the Amazon, from the shores of Lake Atitlan to the streets of Black Rock City his life is an adventure through the transformational ecosystem. He believes we are living in an awe inspiring moment in the human story, where the wisdom teachings from around the world and throughout time are available to us to catalyze the evolution of human consciousness. His life is devoted to co-creating a cultural revolution and cultivating a reciprocal relationship with our living Mother Earth.
Lindsay is a certified Permaculture Design Consultant with a bachelor’s degrees in fine arts. Lindsay leads a Design Team of 9 designers all over the continent, creating and promoting standards of excellence in their design work, providing project management for Permaculture Demonstration Sites and developing new ways to apply permaculture to the planet. Her focus is Ecological Restoration & Agroforestry systems with the goal of redirecting the trajectory of industrial broad-acre farming towards embracing the principles of Permaculture, creating edible shelterbelts and regenerating watersheds and riparian zones.
Charlie currently farms and teaches agriculture and permaculture near Corvallis, OR. Charlie has also been a speaker at the Cascade Mycological Society, the Central Oregon Mushroom Club, and tentatively, the Oregon Mycological Society on the topic of building regenerative systems using fungi. Charlie also helps manage and run one of the largest native fungal culture collections in the PNW located at Oregon State University.
Thursday | 4 pm
Growing Mushrooms Out of Gourds
Rhize
Saturday | 4 pm
Designing Fungal-Plant Polycultures From the Wild
Torch
Kaitlin Bryson
Santa Fe, NM
Kaitlin Bryson is a queer transdisciplinary ecological artist and educator based in Santa Fe, New Mexico concerned with environmental and social justice and multispecies thriving. She primarily works with fungi, plants, microbes, and biodegradable materials to engage more-than-human audiences, while also facilitating human communities through ecosocial practice. Her practice is research-based and most often collaborative, highlighting the potency of working like lichens to realize radical change and justice. In 2019, Bryson co-founded The Submergence Collective, an environmental art collective focused on multidisciplinary projects that imagine more collaborative, creative, hopeful, and ecologically connected futures for our human species and the rest of the living world.
Bryson received an MFA in Art & Ecology from the University of New Mexico in 2018, where she concurrently studied art and mycology with research in ecotoxicology. Currently, she holds a faculty position in Art & Ecology at the University of New Mexico and is the Field Coordinator for the Land Arts Program. Bryson’s transdisciplinary teaching focuses on facilitating ecologically relational practices informed by queer and critical ecology and traditional ecological knowledge, to enroot decolonial, interconnected, contemporary environmental art practices.
Sunday | 2 pm
Artist Talk: Restor(y)ing Through Mycocultural Art Practices
Torch
Andrew Claassen
Redding, CA
I'm a collecting specialist with the North American Fungal Diversity Survey. My goal as a speaker at this event is to represent FUNDIS and encourage the public to get involved with our volunteer program by making collections and sending them in for DNA analysis, as well as encouraging donations to push our mission forward.
Friday | 9:45 am
Uncovering the Tree: FUNDIS' Work Studying Unknown Mushrooms of North America
Torch
Dr. Kevin Feeney
Ellensburg, WA
Kevin Feeney, PhD, JD, is an author and researcher trained in the fields of law and cultural anthropology. His research interests include examining legal and regulatory issues surrounding the religious and cultural use of psychoactive substances, emphasizing peyote and ayahuasca, and exploring modern and traditional uses of Amanita muscaria. His primary work, “Fly Agaric: A Compendium of History, Pharmacology, Mythology, and Exploration,” was published as an edited volume in 2020. Additional research and writings have been published in the International Journal of Drug Policy, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, Human Organization, and Curare, among other books and journals. He is a member of Chacruna’s Council for the Protection of Sacred Plants, and a member of the Board of Advisors for Psyched Wellness.
Friday | 11 am
From “Poison” to Sacrament: Spiritual and Therapeutic Use of Amanita muscaria in the 21st Century
Grail
Saturday | 11 am
Fly Agaric as Medicine: From Traditional to Modern Use
Grail
Jordan Gaertner
Chico, CA
Jordan Gaertner is a chef of varied experiences and talents. She has a back-gound in biodynamic and organic farming in TN from Long Hungry Creek Farm and Caney Fork Farms respectively as well as early culinary experience in fine dinning restaurants such as Husk Nashville. For the last few years she has worked as a head cook for Alaska Wildland Adventures on the Kenai Peninsula. Currently she starting a new branch of her career as a personal chef in the marine industry. She has a longstanding relationship with fermented foods that began in her youth when she was introduced to the ferments shared at her local CSA. In her time at Long Hungry Creek Farm she studied in workshops with renowned fermentationist Sandor Katz. She always has something bubbling away or myceliat-ing in a corner weather is be her signature citrus-cayenne kombucha, lacto-pickles, kimchi, tempeh, or something of the like... and she would love to share it with you!
Saturday | 11 am
Ferment Your Way to Flavor!
Torch
Shunsuke Hirose
Japan
I cultivate around 2,000 logs of shiitake mushrooms annually in the satoyama of Tottori Prefecture, having done so for 13 years.Shiitake as food has become commoditized, leading me to explore new opportunities. Enter the ""Kinokolium""—akin to terrariums, but for mushrooms. Using my log cultivation skills, I aim to grow and showcase mushrooms naturally within glass containers.
I've developed micro-log techniques with 2-5 cm diameters to facilitate this. I’m also isolating beautiful, non-edible mushrooms like Mycenae for cultivation. There is a significant potential market for ornamental mushrooms, akin to horticulture for plants. My long-term goal is to establish nurseries worldwide to supply these ornamental mushrooms, starting with my current cultivation efforts. I see great potential in moving beyond food to decorative fungi
Saturday | 9:45 am
Shiitake Log Wood Cultivation in Japan and its Future
Rhize
Dr. Christopher Hobbs
San Jose, CA
Dr. Christopher Hobbs is a fourth generation, internationally known herbalist and mycologist, licensed acupuncturist, herbal clinician, research scientist, consultant to the dietary supplement industry, expert witness, botanist, public speaker, and author of over 20 books and numerous articles with over 40 years of experience.
He is the author of the recent book “Christopher Hobbs’s Medicinal Mushrooms, the Essential Guide,” with German and English editions.
He earned his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley with research and publication in evolutionary biology, biogeography, phylogenetics, the chemistry of plants and fungi, and ethnobotany. Now faculty at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Friday | 4 pm
The Exciting Connection Between Mushroom Intake and the Microbiome to Benefit Immunity, Cognition, and Mood
Grail
Saturday | 2 pm
Healing with Fungi: Making and Choosing Medicinal Products
Torch
Nate Loker
White Salmon, WA
I am currently an advanced instructor in the Oxygen Advantage method, directed by Patrick McKeown. This specialized training has equipped me with the knowledge and skills to help individuals master their breathing and achieve greater overall well-being.
Peter is an original founder of the mycological advocacy organization Radical Mycology and Rad Myco, a founder of the Fungi Film Festival, and the founder and lead instructor at Mycologos, a mycology school and certified organic demonstration Fungi Farm. He is the author of Radical Mycology: A Treatise on Seeing and Working With Fungi (Chthaeus Press, 2016), a 650-page compendium of applied and theoretical mycology, as well as The Mycocultural Revolution: Transforming Our World with Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi.
His work has been featured in the films Fantastic Fungi and The Mushroom Speaks, and in the books Entangled Life, In Search of Mycotopia, and The Future is Fungi. From his hometown in Portland, Peter’s daily practice centers on pondering, designing, cultivating, and researching ever-healthier relations between humans, fungi, and the habitats we share.
Friday | 9:45 am
Brigid, the Amanita Icon: A Mycological Assessment of the Celtic Fertility Goddess
Grail
Saturday | 2 pm
The Mysteries of Mycology: The Cold Fires of Eternal Lineages
Grail
Monica Mena
Brooklyn, NY
Monica Mena is an Ayurvedic Practitioner, Yoga teacher, Body Temple Dance facilitator, and Mexican Therapeutic Massage healer. Monica's offerings offer healing in the four realms of holistic health: physical, mental, spiritual and emotional. She has trained with many teachers and is deeply influenced by her spiritual path in Bhakti Yoga, El Camino Rojo (the Red Path) and her Mexican roots. Monica is passionate about sharing her knowledge of natural medicine, holistic health and how to live more in harmony with nature and ourselves.
We are members of the nonprofit collective, CoRenewal. Monica chairs our Public Health Committee and co-leads Project Oasis and I am the Operations Coordinator for this collective.
CoRenewal is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving biodiversity and ameliorating the impacts of natural disasters and ecological disturbances on both community and ecosystem health.
Gerald Pollack maintains an active laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of WATER: A Multidisciplinary Research Journal; Executive Director of the Institute for Venture Science; co-founder of 4th-Phase Inc.; and founder of the Annual Conference on the Physics, Chemistry, and Biology of Water. He has received numerous honors including: the Prigogine Medal for Thermodynamics; the University of Washington Annual Faculty Lecturer; the NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award; and the 1st Emoto Peace Prize. He is recognized internationally as an accomplished speaker and author.
Dr. Seri Robinson is a scientist who has spent too much time around organic solvents. They enjoy roller derby, woodturning, making chainmail by hand, and cultivating fungi in the backs of minivans.
Friday | 2 pm
The Ancient Art and Modern Science of Spalting
Rhize
Friday | 4 pm
Turning Spalted Wood
Rhize
Jason Scott
Beavercreek, OR
Jason Scott is a Mycologist, Ethnobotanist and Spagyricist who has studied medicinal mushrooms and traditional Hermetic Alchemy, from history and philosophy to practice, for over a decade. He has a background in Ethnobotany and Plant Medicine that was sparked by being around the plants and vibrant ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest. Born and raised in Oregon, Jason has an intrinsic interest in the Fungal Queendom and all of its aspects, from cultivation and mycoremediation to historical and cultural relationships. Jason has studied various healing modalities including Ayurveda in Nepal and Western Herbalism all over Oregon and Washington. He is on an ever-deepening journey to understand the practical applications of his interests and the golden threads that connect them.
Graham Steinruck is a chef, forager, and mycologist with a passion for incorporating wild ingredients into unique culinary creations inspired by the natural world. Having worked alongside some of Colorado’s top chefs, Graham's dedication to cooking and foraging earned him a spot on Zagat’s prestigious ‘30 Under 30’ list. He has contributed recipes to the ‘Fantastic Fungi Community Cookbook’ by Eugenia Bone and ‘Wild Mushrooms’ by Trent and Kristen Blizzard.
He recently founded Biodiversity Collective, an event company that focuses on fungi education, hands-on learning, and travel experiences. The organization’s first project, the Kaua’i Fungal Biodiversity Survey, was completed this past November.
Sunday | 9:45 am
Kaua'i Fungal Biodiversity Survey
Torch
Tatum Sutton (Miss Mush)
California
Miss Mush, a lifetime resident of Southern California, has been practicing in the space since 2020. She is incredibly grateful to work in a field that helps others heal from trauma, substance abuse, or mental health issues.
Wumbo Myco has been working and experimenting in mycology for over 10 years. He has delved deep into the science and has done so with a passion. Wumbo is excited to share his wealth of knowledge with others in the spirit of collaboration and advancement of the cause.
Saturday | 2 pm
Introduction to Fungal Breeding
Rhize
Thaer Tafesh
Palestine
COLEA specializes in offering customized bio-reactors that leverage our fungus based aerobic bioremediation processes. Our primary focus is on utilizing micro-organisms, particularly fungi, to treat toxic olive oil mill wastewater, transforming it into liquid organic fertilizers that can be safely applied in agriculture. These organic fertilizers are thus reintegrated into the circular economy of the olive oil supply chain, serving the three way purpose of irrigation, fertilization and pest control.
Saturday | 4 pm
The Power of Fungi to Transform a $300 Million Market
Rhize
Raskal Turbeville
Rochester, WA
Raskal Turbeville is a soil ecologist, mycology consultant, farmsteader and educator who focuses on exhuming the patterning, functionality and benefit of fungi in agricultural systems and beyond.
After a 4 year stint in the commercial mushroom industry Raskal has returned his focus back to the soil and mycological education. Founding Soil Ecology Analytics, he employs new microscopy techniques to analyze soil organisms and assist farmers, ecologists and soil
lovers in enhancing microbial collaboration.
Based in Rochester Washington, Raskal practices regenerative agriculture techniques with his mother, wife and two daughters to cultivate abundance for the family and local community. He continues to educate the people about developing a harmonious relationship with the world of fungi while tending the land he and his family call home.
Friday | 2 pm
The Unseen World of Microbial Ecology
Torch
Saturday | 11 am
Integrating Myco Solutions into Ag Systems
Rhize
Courtney Tyler
County Wicklow, Ireland
A keen forager, Courtney spends much time wandering the hedgerows and forests for wild local food to preserve as food or medicine. Processing and transforming wild plants, roots, berries and fungi into herbal extracts, teas, salves, ferments and delicious food to share with her community.
Saturday | 9:45 am
Forest Balm: Harness the Power of Bees, Trees, Lichen and Fungi
Rhize
Sunday | 9:45 am
Exploring the Use of Amanita muscaria for Effective Pain Relief
Grail
Sunday | 2 pm
Jerkies, Balms, Pickles and Unguents
Rhize
Anna Wilson
Mulino, OR
Anna Wilson-Falk is a land steward on Brown Bottle Farm. She/They is currently operating a small-scale gourmet mushroom farm which sells at local farmers markets and CSAs, as well as growing a fermentation garden. She's been a student of Mycology, Botany, Herbalism, Fermentation, Homesteading, and Foraging for over a decade, and shared all of her studies and major life experiences the last 14 years with her partner Ryan Falk, another steward and farmer on the land.
Sunday | 9:45 am
Brown Bottle Mushroom Farm Tour
Rhize
Sunday | 4 pm
Recomposing Life
Grail
Jasmine Zenderland
Albuquerque, NM
Jasmine Zenderland is an herbalist, botanist, and ethnobotanist with extensive experience in the biological sciences and the traditional use of plants and fungi. After completing the Professional Herbalism training in Planetary Herbology, Jasmine worked as a community herbalist for many years. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Botany from California Polytechnic University, Humboldt, where she studied plant taxonomy, mycology, and phycology.
Jasmine also holds a Master of Arts in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Washington University in St. Louis. Here, she worked with the Missouri Botanical Garden, and her research focused on the genomics, ecology, and ethnobotany of medicinal and food plants.
Currently, Jasmine works as a botanist for an herbal medicine company in New Mexico.