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Paper from mushrooms?! Not only is it possible, but the results are gorgeous. Come learn the craft from Liz Vermillion. In this hands-on workshop Liz Vermillion take you through the steps to turn polypore mushrooms into unique, textural sheets of paper. All materials will be provided.
Paper from mushrooms?! Not only is it possible, but the results are gorgeous. Come learn the craft from Liz Vermillion. In this hands-on workshop Liz Vermillion take you through the steps to turn polypore mushrooms into unique, textural sheets of paper. All materials will be provided.
You can find her creations in the Vendor Tent here at the festival and on her website, Liz's Cottage.
Liz Vermillion is an herbalist and forager residing in the Bay Area, CA. She is board member of three Mycological Societies and runs a small business, Liz's Cottage., where she makes things with ingredients from the woods or her garden. She also enjoys art and utilizing mushrooms as inspiration, whether it be sculpting them from clay, making dyes, paper mache costumes or watercolors from left over dye baths
Lama Nasser-Gammett is owner/operator of The Forest People, a small-scale mushroom farm in Mendocino County that she and her husband Matthew began in 2018. She has been cultivating mushrooms for over 12 years as part of a larger picture of subsistence farming and regenerative ag and teaches workshops and classes around the county. Her fascination with fungi began with her discovery that mycelium is everywhere in nature and has the ability to communicate with and influence its local environment.
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Join Lama Nasser-Gammett, of The Forest People, in this hands-on workshop to prepare your own oyster mushroom grow bag. From straw pasteurization to inoculation to care and feeding, you will learn the steps needed to grow your own mushrooms. All materials will be provided. 
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Harte Singer and Alan Rockefeller will use the bounty of the forest and mushrooms from Sonoma county's legendary Mycopia mushroom farm and showcase ideal cooking techniques for each species. Participants will have the opportunity to help prepare ingredients and sample the results.
Harte Singer and Alan Rockefeller will use the bounty of the forest and mushrooms from Sonoma county's legendary Mycopia mushroom farm and showcase ideal cooking techniques for each species. Participants will have the opportunity to help prepare ingredients and sample the results.
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Harte Singer is a molecular biologist and lifelong student of the natural world. He owns Dikarya LLC, a company specializing in DNA barcoding and fungal genomics. He is a board VP at the Sonoma County Mycological Association and manages the sequencing program for the Fungal Diversity Survey. He credits his love of mushrooms to his previous career as a Chef and still enjoys foraging, cooking and eating mushrooms as much as he loves looking at their DNA.
Alan Rockefeller is a mycologist, photographer, and DNA-barcoding specialist who has photographed thousands of species of fungi in dozens of countries. He has spent more than two decades documenting mushrooms throughout North and South America and has co-authored scientific papers describing new species of Psilocybe and bioluminescent Mycena. Alan has also contributed more than 400,000 identifications to iNaturalist and Mushroom Observer. He is also an adept cook of mushrooms.
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Buy a ticket to reserve your spot - limited to 36 seats. All materials will be provided.
This two hour hands-on workshop will be an action-packed exploration of the real-life forest MAGIC that is mushroom dyeing! Join Wilder Herbertson in a celebration of fungi and fiber, where we’ll learn about dyeing with mushrooms and lichens (including an overview of what variables shift the colors of different pigments, and practicing two of these color shifts, and ethical harvest considerations). Participants will take home a sample board with the processes for how we got each of the five different colors made from two local species of fungi, as well as their very own silk handkerchief. Come prepared to gasp and clutch your pearls at some of the transformations undergone by these pigments! Participants may bring a small item made from 100% wool or silk (cotton not ideal in this set-up) to put in the “exhaust baths” after the workshop, which is pigment remaining in the dyepot after the workshop items are dyed. |
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Wilder Herbertson (they/them) is a fiber artist, ancestral skills practitioner, forager, and amateur naturalist who has been guiding forays, workshops, retreats, and more through their project Human Becoming since 2019. Their work is an effort to help heal contemporary cultural wounds of disconnection; they strive to co-create embodied spaces where folks can connect with themselves, each other, and the earth’s ecosystems (upon which we depend entirely and for which we are responsible). Find out more at www.humanbecoming.me, text or call (707) 376-8550, or email [email protected].
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