Potluck Celebrating Braiding Sweetgrass
Dear Fellow Myconauts,
We have a potluck incoming and some exciting November events ahead. A special session dedicated to sharing Mycoverse stories and a workshop on fermentation.
My next door neighbor Ganoderma has been growing for over three months this year! And still growing. Keep an eye out for Dead Man’s Foot aka Pisoluthus too. I met one on my evening jog today in someone’s lawn.
Upcoming Events in the Mycoverse 🍄🟫🌳🍄🍁
October 21st - Potluck Celebration of Braiding Sweetgrass –The Sacred & The Superfund
November 11th - What Have We Learned Exploring the Mycoverse?
November 25th - Fermentation Station with James Oliver & Friends (SAVE THE DATE)
If you are interested in reading ahead, we will be reading and discussing The Light Eaters next.
A sneak peak at the first batch of our fungal pottery after coming out of the kiln via Alice Zhang.
Potluck Celebration of Braiding Sweetgrass –
The Sacred & The Superfund
Monday, October 21st, 7pm @ Arlington Garden, Pasadena, CA – Free by donation
As is our tradition, whenever we finish reading a book together, we celebrate with a potluck! Come along on October 21st for our potluck celebration of Braiding Sweetgrass. We encourage fungi-inspired dishes and snacks but they are not required. We love snacks and deserts too.
We will be discussing the last section of the book, Burning Sweetgrass. The last section is one heck of a conclusion. Personally, it’s the section where I have the most dog-eared pages, underlines, notes, and “WOW’s” & stars written in the margins.
More details via our Eventbrite link.
What Have We Learned Exploring the Mycoverse?
Monday, November 11th, 7pm @ Arlington Garden, Pasadena, CA – Free by donation
Over the years, we have traversed the Mycoverse with a diverse group of myconauts from our local community to authors, artists, and scientists from all over. We have learned so much, especially from you! To honor what we have learned, we are working on creating a few projects to showcase the Exploring the Mycoverse community we have cultivated toegher – via publications, a documentary, and more!
This session is dedicated to feeding these projects through sharing our stories, Mycoverse delights, favorite anecdotes, favorite humorous moments, favorite vulnerable moments, favorite mushroom encounter, and favorite moments where we felt deeply connected. How has your relationships with fungi and the more than human world evolved through our community?
Come along to share and listen to what spores we've spread, and what stories we’ve felt the need to share with our friends, family, coworkers, and the occasional stranger.
We are excited to reflect on what we have learned so far in exploring the Mycoverse, from the far reaches of the Mycoverse in the matsutake forests of Yunnan, the yeasty relationships that founded human civilization in the Middle East, the multitude of myco-inspired gatherings at New Moon, Telluride, Radical Mycology, NAMA, and many more we’ve explored across the United States, to the Mycoverse that is near, inside us, and under our very own feet.
Before our discussion, we invite you to think about:
What is something you share with others that you have learned from this community? Or something you feel vitally important to share from this community?
Do you have a specific story about the Mycoverse, or experience, a moment from the Mycoverse that changed the way you see the world or enhanced your understanding of fungi?
What does building a better relationship with the more-than-human worlds of fungi look like to you?
The Mycoverse Abroad!
See you at the Pacific Northwest NAMA 2024 annual gathering! I’ll be leading a foray on Halloween and giving a talk on Funding for Fungi and about the NAMA Conservation & Stewardship committee I founded.
Spores Round Up
Asteroid impact may have turned ants into fungus farmers 66 million years ago.
Microbes found living in a 2-billion year old rock – how many fungi live in subsurface zones?
Highlights from the 2024 Mycolicious Mycolucious Telluride Mushroom Festival Poetry Show - always interesting.
Arlington Garden is hosting a wine tasting fundraising event this weekend.
Spread the spores,
Aaron