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Schedule and Programs offered during Work Party!
UPDATES HAPPENING THIS WEEK
UPDATES HAPPENING THIS WEEK
Thursday
Pre-breakfast Yoga
A Fungal Journey- Connecting More Deeply with Mushrooms- Nina O'Malley
Mushrooms have medicines and personalities that can heal us - not just through their physical medicinal properties, but through direct communication. Once you take the time to communicate with a mushroom, it can offer deep healing for yourself and those in your life on a mental, spiritual, emotional and/or physical level. Our ancestors cultivated relationships with these spirits and these practices have almost been forgotten. In this workshop, Nina will guide you through a journey to connect more deeply with a mushroom. This approach can be used with many other plants and fungi, and this journey will help you open the way to the plant and fungal wisdom available right outside your doorstep. Please bring something comfortable to lay on, an eye cover, and a journal.
Cultivating Relationships with Queendom Fungi - Charlie Aller
We will have demonstrations of growing on coffee grounds and cardboard, and discuss how to optimize growth on whatever you have locally available. Since cultivating relationships is a long and intimate process, we will begin the journey with some observational methods and tips that will help you see what a fungus is telling you with its form. We will go over several different low tech methods, including heat pasteurization, cold pasteurization, and fermentation methods with whatever materials are on hand.
Friday
Pre-breakfast Yoga
Fungi & Plant Foray-Rebar
Medicinal Mushrooms 101-Alex Dorr
All mushrooms are medicinal. They are the great teachers and great healers. Remediating toxins within and without, above and below. Learn our cast of funguy and fungal characters through a meteria medica lens of looking at the medicinal benefits of different species of mushrooms. Learn how to prepare dozens of different preparations and interweave and integrate this medicine into your everyday life.
MORE CLASSES TBA
Saturday
Pre-breakfast Yoga
Environmental Justice-Elizabeth Primus
Environmental discrimination has historically been evident in the process of selecting and building environmentally hazardous sites, including waste disposal, manufacturing, and energy production facilities. Elizabeth will be teaching about how water becomes contaminated, how the laws concerning contaminated sites work and bioaccumulationa and biomagnification. She will also be discussing how you can be involved in environmental justice.
MORE CLASSES TBA
Sunday
Pre-breakfast Yoga-
CHANGES IN FUNGAL DIVERSITY WALK- Zaac Chaves
This workshop will largely be a walk focused on details and noticing. We will endeavor to archive identification to the species level. Before embarking this particular walk will start on a sombre note regarding disappearing species of fungi including some forest management trends along with the most greenwashed of ecocidal trends. Bring a loupe or borrow one and prepare for a glorious spectacle.
Pre-breakfast Yoga
A Fungal Journey- Connecting More Deeply with Mushrooms- Nina O'Malley
Mushrooms have medicines and personalities that can heal us - not just through their physical medicinal properties, but through direct communication. Once you take the time to communicate with a mushroom, it can offer deep healing for yourself and those in your life on a mental, spiritual, emotional and/or physical level. Our ancestors cultivated relationships with these spirits and these practices have almost been forgotten. In this workshop, Nina will guide you through a journey to connect more deeply with a mushroom. This approach can be used with many other plants and fungi, and this journey will help you open the way to the plant and fungal wisdom available right outside your doorstep. Please bring something comfortable to lay on, an eye cover, and a journal.
Cultivating Relationships with Queendom Fungi - Charlie Aller
We will have demonstrations of growing on coffee grounds and cardboard, and discuss how to optimize growth on whatever you have locally available. Since cultivating relationships is a long and intimate process, we will begin the journey with some observational methods and tips that will help you see what a fungus is telling you with its form. We will go over several different low tech methods, including heat pasteurization, cold pasteurization, and fermentation methods with whatever materials are on hand.
Friday
Pre-breakfast Yoga
Fungi & Plant Foray-Rebar
Medicinal Mushrooms 101-Alex Dorr
All mushrooms are medicinal. They are the great teachers and great healers. Remediating toxins within and without, above and below. Learn our cast of funguy and fungal characters through a meteria medica lens of looking at the medicinal benefits of different species of mushrooms. Learn how to prepare dozens of different preparations and interweave and integrate this medicine into your everyday life.
MORE CLASSES TBA
Saturday
Pre-breakfast Yoga
Environmental Justice-Elizabeth Primus
Environmental discrimination has historically been evident in the process of selecting and building environmentally hazardous sites, including waste disposal, manufacturing, and energy production facilities. Elizabeth will be teaching about how water becomes contaminated, how the laws concerning contaminated sites work and bioaccumulationa and biomagnification. She will also be discussing how you can be involved in environmental justice.
MORE CLASSES TBA
Sunday
Pre-breakfast Yoga-
CHANGES IN FUNGAL DIVERSITY WALK- Zaac Chaves
This workshop will largely be a walk focused on details and noticing. We will endeavor to archive identification to the species level. Before embarking this particular walk will start on a sombre note regarding disappearing species of fungi including some forest management trends along with the most greenwashed of ecocidal trends. Bring a loupe or borrow one and prepare for a glorious spectacle.
About the teachers & organizers
Nina O'Malley
Nina O'Malley, co-founder of Mush Luv, is a mushroom grower and a crafter of herbal creations, dedicated to the study of mushrooms and plants for healing. Nina believes that the plant and fungal beings around us are waiting for a chance to help us heal, learn more about ourselves, and connect with our surroundings. 
Charlie Aller aka Charliceps
Charlie has been growing relationships with fungi of all shapes and sizes for the last 6 years through foraging, tending the wild, and cultivating mushrooms on whatever substrate sits still long enough to be cooked, fermented, or chemically pasteurized. With Nina O'Malley they started Mush Luv in Charlottesville, VA & they grow mushrooms on locally accessible substrates. 
Zaac Chaves
Often sought for field expertise regarding fungi, Zaac Chaves guides people through realms in which details matter immensely. Zaac’s skills are routinely requested by both Harvard University and the New York Botanical Gardens for rare and disappearing species’ surveys. Zaac is the chief editor of the Boston Mycological Club Bulletin, an amateur mycological publication dating back to 1897. Here are some things we NEED to get done to reach the Summit :
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Elizabeth Primus
Hydrogeologist & the owner of an environmental consulting business; Integrity Environmental Restoration. She has supervised bio-remediation at contaminated site clean ups & Phase I and II field investigations and served as the Health and Safety Officer. She also teaches Adult Education for the Rochester City School District. She runs an organization call GoClean which provides training and innovate solutions in developing countries to address sanitation & water contamination issues in coordination with international aid agencies, local community groups, leaders and academics, and commercial water purification enterprises and other producers. 
Alex Dorr
Alex Dorr is a mycophile residing from Easthampton Ma. Owner, founder and CEO of Mushroom Revival, an organic Cordyceps militaris farm and organic medicinal mushroom supplement producer. Author of the book "Mycoremediation Handbook: a Grassroots Guide to Growing Mushrooms and Cleaning up Toxic Waste with Fungi" On the Mushroom Mountain mycoremediation team and the Mushroom Mountain Jamaica Project. Also, last but not least, Alex is an excited member of Corenewal. |