The Honorable Harvest Potluck
The Honorable Harvest Potluck
The Mycoverse is featured in LA's first annual Climate Week next month!
Dear Fellow Myconauts,
We are continuing with Braiding Sweetgrass this month. It has been rewarding revisiting, it’s quite the foundational text for us. You can join us to discuss just the single chapter we’re focusing on if you’re unable to read the longer passages. Sign up below to learn more about the potluck, they are always a delight with the generous creations made by our community! 😋
Exploring the Mycoverse’s soil science talk by Lynn Fang is featured in LA’s first annual Climate Week 2024 📣. We are so excited to have Lynn Fang come back and share her soil wisdom with us. Lynn previously partnered up with the Mycoverse and LA Compost to host a microscopy night a few years ago that was a big hit.
Upcoming Events 🍄🟫🌳🍄🍁
August 26th – Potluck 🥙 & Braiding Sweetgrass: The Honorable Harvest
September 9th: Soil Scientist Lynn Fang on Soil Fungi & Fungi in Compost 🪱
September 16th: Painting our fungal sculptures we made together from our Third Anniversary Celebration 🎨 (more TBA, save the date!)
October 7th – Braiding Sweetgrass: Becoming Naturalized to Place
October 21st – Braiding Sweetgrass The Sacred and The Superfund
Previously in the Mycoverse…
Fellow myconaut Rocio shared with us some versions of the Skywoman Falling creation story, adapted from the book, why creation stories are necessary, and Robin shares more about the variations in the 2020 hardcover edition introduction. Robin embraces Skywoman as a parable of hope, transformation, and courage amongst our time of great uncertainty.
Braiding Sweetgrass: The Honorable Harvest + Potluck
Monday, August 26th, 7pm @ Arlington Garden, Pasadena, CA – Free by donation
We’ll be discussing Braiding Sweetgrass over many iterations so please join us for all of them or just one! We’ll be discussing the book 100 pages at a time with a focus on a specific chapter within that 100 pages if you’re not able to do the whole readings. More details on each event via the links.
Braiding Sweetgrass is greatly inspired by fungi! There is not one, but TWO chapters dedicated to the teachings of fungi in Braiding Sweetgrass! One on Umbilicaria (a lichen who lives here in SoCal) and another on Shkitagen (aka the tinder fungus aka chaga).
August 26th – Potluck & The Honorable Harvest
October 7th – Becoming Naturalized to Place
October 21st – The Sacred and The Superfund
Conjuring Fungi in Soil with Lynn Fang
Monday, September 9th, 7pm @ Arlington Garden, Pasadena, CA – Free by donation
Come learn from SoilWise community soil scientist Lynn Fang, MS, about the important role fungi play in building healthy soils! We will cover decomposer and mycorrhizal fungi, their role in building healthy soil structure, soil C sequestration, water and nutrient transport, native vs. introduced fungi, and ways to cultivate, encourage, and conjure more fungi in your soil. We will introduce ways to make high fungal compost, and demonstrate the Microbiometer tool for assessing F:B ratio, as well as showcase fungi under the microscope.
Check out the event page for more about Lynn & her soil consulting practice SoilWise.
Spores Round Up
We tried the new huitlacoche themed restaurant in Highland Park Carnal Covina Artisanal and loved it, yes you read that right, there’s a huitlacoche themed restaurant in LA 👀 (huitlacoche aka maiz hongos aka Mexican truffles)
A YouTube series on Fungi in Soil Health taught by Nicole Masters for Regenerate LA
Our friends at JACCC, Sustainable Little Tokyo’s Little Tokyo Garden Club are doing hosting some creative workshops later this month – How to Nurture & Sustain the Abundant Ecosystem of Your Creative Practice
Spread the spores,
Aaron