Chris is the creative mind behind Corvidopolis, The Mushroom Tarot and Sporelust!.

Raised in the Pacific Northwest, he has always had a fondness for the outdoors and a love of creating art.

After studying architecture he has been a working illustrator & printmaker for the last 12 years.

In his late 20s he was introduced to mushroom foraging, and sometime around 2014 those two passions combined––the rest is (recent) history!

His work merges: youthful influences from skate-punk culture, 60s & 70s counterculture inspiration and an attention to scientifically accurate depiction of mushrooms, plants and animals.

Most recently he has begun to find himself in the position of an ‘accidental’ science educator by tricking people into learning about mycology & biodiversity through his drawings, which often utilize recognizable popular culture reference while maintaining key elements of accuracy.

Ava Arvest is a cultivator, business owner, teacher, artist, singer, duck mom and community facilitator. Her farm was started in 2016 after 6 years of organizing with the Olympia Mycelial Network. She has focused on educating about mushrooms to help de-stigmatize them for human benefit, and environmental benefit. With a focus on curiosity and love for the mysterious, Ava makes learning about fungi as fun as possible so that each person can feel a stronger connection to natural source, their food, and fungi for health benefits.

Harmony is an apocalyptic Viking warrior princess who likes living in an offgrid hut in extreme environments, a Madmax mystic cavewoman wild tending big game hunter, a braintanning butcher biker babe roadkill connoisseur homesteader with your great great grandmother's passion for preserving food.

Jacob DeVecchio is a mushroom entrepreneur from Oklahoma City, OK. His company, Oklahoma Fungi, is the #1 resource for mushroom education and cultivation supplies in the state. He grew up in Oklahoma City and is the first mushroom cultivator/forager in his family. Jacob has been an enthusiastic host for more than 50 free mushroom education events in Oklahoma over the past 2 years. Through these events, he has helped break negative stigmas surrounding mushrooms and foster a knowledgeable local mushroom community.

Andrew Tuttle and Mary Marshall own and operate Edge Perma and Redtail Edge Design. They use their wide range of skills to help people regenerate landscapes and farms through online education and design services. The Permaculture Institute of North America and the Global Earth Repair Network have recently highlighted their work with Edge Perma.

Ground Culture is a farming education project in Portland, Oregon dedicated to restoring regenerative relationships for transitional times. Through community partnerships focused on restoring soil and water, we are committed to collectively reawakening the wisdom of the ancestral microbial, fungal and floral beings through cultivation, education and healing. Ground Culture offers consultations, in-person and remote workshops, bokashi, bokashi balls, seedballs, mushroom spawn and liquid cultures at www.groundculturepdx.com.

Warren Hill is a humble Citizen scientist and Mycologist that has a Mycology supply company & spends his time leading educational courses centered around mushroom cultivation in Denver and Guatemala for 3 years now.

Daniel is a farmer, community connector, and passionate advocate for building equitable food systems. He currently manages an equity-centered farmers market in Seattle, operates his own farm business, and advises direct marketing farmers and food makers on a wide range of business needs. Daniel also works with the Washington Farmland Trust to advise programmatic and policy decisions towards equitable land access for underserved farmers and ranchers, is on the leadership team of United Way’s Food Justice Collaborative, and sits on the Advisory Committee for King County’s Local Food Initiative.

Alexandria Irons (AKA Queen of the Sun Grown) is a regenerative agriculture and closed-loop farming specialist with over seven years of experience in commercial cannabis cultivation. She has a degree in natural science and is also a UC Davis certified Master Gardener and Composter. After working in the commercial production of cannabis, her focus is now on education. She has been teaching a wide range of classes on organic gardening online and in person across the US and Canada. Her goal is to help gardeners become more sustainable, saving money and building soil for future generations!

Chef Janna is a PNW native, of Tlingit descent, who has spent her entire life living and learning from the lands of Washington State. She is the owner and creator of Mother’s Roots, a specialty catering production with a brick & mortar at the Olympia Farmers Market, which will be providing us with local, nutritious food all weekend long. Janna has a passion for natural foods and wild foraged ingredients. She’s committed to providing us with beyond organic, local foods from farms from Vashon Island and Washington State. Join us as Janna and her team whips up meals that honor the shift into Autumn, the seasonal mushrooms that follow, and demonstrates eating the way Mother Nature intended for us.

You can find her online at www.mothersroots.com or on Instagram @MothersRoots.

Hailey Lampe owns and operates Cruising Climate LLC, a regenerative garden/homestead coaching and landscape design company. Using her backgrounds in education, environmental science, and regenerative agriculture, she supports those who work the land in reaching their cultivation goals. She works with folks cultivating small, urban spaces and those working commercial-scale, forty-acre forms, both virtually and in-person. Using regenerative methods, she helps optimize their food production spaces, tweak their yearly maintenance habits, fully redesign their landscapes, and grow their soil.

Brittany Lillegard is a fractionalized COO, focused on supporting growing organizations in the psychedelic and well-being ecosystems in turning big visions into executable strategies. She also serves as the Director of Education for the Dutch community platform, Microdosing Institute, where she weaves together her strategy, facilitation, and space holding skills. Additionally, Brittany is a certified Wim Hof Method Instructor, yoga and meditation teacher with over 15 years experience helping students of all backgrounds develop healthier relationships to themselves through playful and explorative integration of breath, mindfulness, and somatic practices.

Personally, Brittany has gratefully led a nomadic lifestyle for over a decade, having lived in five countries (US, New Zealand, India, Netherlands, and Portugal). She currently lives in a van exploring North America with her dog, Polly.

Penny has been teaching internationally and working professionally in the land management, regenerative design & permaculture development field for over 30 years and has extensive experience in all phases of ecologically sound design and construction as well as the use of natural non-toxic building materials. She specializes in herbalism, site planning & design of resource rich landscapes integrating, rainwater collection, agroforestry systems, edible and medicinal planting, spring development, pond and water systems, habitat development and watershed restoration for homes, farms, co-housing communities and businesses. She is currently teaching online courses with Ecoversity www.ecoversity.org and the Permaculture Skills Center. www.pennylivingston.com

“Mark Musick changed the way Seattle thinks of seasonal, local food.”-The Seattle Times

Many consider Mark to be one of the most influential people of the sustainable food movement in the Pacific Northwest. He has spent his life passionately advocating for positive changes in agriculture as a farmer and one of the co-founders of Tilth Association.

Simon Peter is the founder of MendoMyco, a mycology business operating with zero single-use plastic. MendoMyco also produces high quality adaptogen products. Goals of this project include transparency, sustainability, integrity and education.

Simon is also the founder a non-profit school in Northern California called E.M.E.R.G. (Emerald △ Mycology Exploratory Research Group). This project is currently raising funds to build local community lab space at their recently acquired land. As well as continuing to host workshops in the Emerald Triangle and points beyond.

Simon leads Applied Sustainable Mycology classes through E.M.E.R.G. ; teaching cultivation techniques he developed over time to eliminate plastic waste from mycology. E.M.E.R.G. also works collectively on genetic research and preservation, outdoor cultivation, community activation, microplastic mitigation, food security, biodiversity, and most of all walking with love and intention in the face of adversity.

Danielle’s professional acumen ranges from conducting biochemistry research at the Ph.D. level, to now exploring life as a devoted mother for the past 6 years. Her background in the sciences shapes her approach to everyday life, which is driven by curiosity, inquiry, and bridging internal and external worlds. She brings these qualities, as well as, her caring, compassionate and nurturing presence into her teachings of The 360 Emergence embodiment practice.

Her classes use The 360 movement maps to explore the gifts and complexities of life and to support individuals to integrate and compost their experiences. In this container she encourages attunement, self-compassion, and community care, creating a held space for personal exploration and growth.

Michael Pilarski combines permaculture, ethno-ecology, ecosystem restoration an wildcrafting in an ecological aproach to healing planet and humanity. Through Friends of the Trees, Global Earth Repair Foundation, education, and hands-on practice.

Benjamin Pixie is an herbalist, a treatment free beekeeper, and a founder of the skalitude pollinator sanctuary. He makes and bottles bee magic through pixie mead and spirit of the hive honey distillery.

My journey to fermentation started at the University of Washington while I was studying Anthropology. During my final year of university, I traveled to Italy to study the Anthropology of Food. It was there that I discovered that food is humankind's most notable display of collaboration.

Inspired by this notion, I knew I had to pivot my career and moved to Lyon, France, the gastronomic capital of the world and study at Institut Paul Bocuse.

There through my path of self discovery I found myself stepping away form the rigidity of French cuisine and being pulled into the arms of fermentation.

Naturally this led me to my decision to finish my studies working at Noma’s fermentation lab - three Michelin star restaurant in Copenhagen, Denmark.

And here we are now. A symbiotic blend of all my experiences, people I’ve encountered and products I’ve tasted. Symbiotic Cultures.

​​Symbiotic Culture's main goal is to preserve local ingredients and use microbes to unlock complex flavors of umami, sweetness, and acidity. We take pride in setting up the perfect environment for our desired microbes to flourish in to develop unique flavors. The necessary attention to detail, understanding of microbiology, and rich history is what gives us great appreciation for the craft of fermentation.

David Poplin, founder of Humboldt Mycology, is a biochemist that has been focusing on mushroom cultivation for the last 5 years. At Humboldt mycology we envision a community based on cultivation practices that help people understand mushrooms on a scientific level.

Cassandra Posey is a seer, knowledge seeker, creator, navigator, go down each dopamine filling rabbit hole, ADHD-er. Cassandra has been consumed by a quest for inner self knowledge and evolution. She is fascinated by the collaborative relationships and connections we have to each other and this planet. In 2018 Cassandra crafted natural remedies to end her battle with pharmaceuticals, a journey she had been on since the age of 9. She turned those remedies into a business called Cognitive Function, the U.S. cultivated, badass, AAPI, women founded Mushroom solutions brand! She aims to put farmer’s at the forefront and cultivate community for sharing skills and knowledge in a digestible format. She is doing that by way of Myceliate: The Festival, our annual family, fungi, food & farming gathering. Cassandra’s goal is to lead with intention, education and collectively deepen our understanding of Self Knowledge. She loves to nerd out about sourcing, plants & fungi, medicine making & psychology and the occult.

Kari is a Seattle based healer dedicated to teaching the tools of the yogic path.

She established her own yoga practice over 15 years ago while traveling through deep symptoms of PTSD, and has since explored many other somatic and psychedelic tools to help navigate trauma . She believes in the power of plant medicines and somatic practices to drive personal healing and transform not only an individuals life but also create more resilient communities at large.

Dustin, college dropout turned Permaculture designer, has established a Permaculture foothold on the Southern Coast of Washington State with his close group of friends and family. Together, they manage over 100 acres of land, and water, with a focus on broadscale earthworks and “Do Nothing” style farming in the style of Masanobu Fukuoka. Outside of agriculture, Dustin has applied the design science of Permaculture to multiple thriving businesses in various different fields. Despite all of this, he spends the majority of his time with his beautiful partner and two small unschooled children.

Matt Powers is an author, entrepreneur, educator, musician, citizen scientist, and family guy focused on teaching the world how to live more regeneratively so they can live their best lives: empowered, free, and connected to the natural world.

Delve into the unknown as author and educator, Matt Powers, guides you through layers of science, life, soil, decomposition, fungi, plants, and more to showcase an interconnected world of mystery and wonder all around us.

After years in the wine industry, it was a cancer diagnosis that led me to natural wine. Now I work to advocate for education about natural wine. I also own a couple natural wine stores/ bars where I strive to be an equitable employer cuz that’s important too!

Loni Jean Ronnebaum aka Ronnebaumanita loniscaria has long been passionate about fungi. She graduated from Evergreen State College in 2009 with a BS in Mycology and Natural Sciences and has since been working in the offices for Fungi Perfecti, educating the public and vending at mushroom events around the country. Loni Jean enjoys playing Ukulele and drums for the band Inoculated Minds and photographing #googlyeyefungi in her free time.

Reishi Strauss is an herbalist, mycologist, and medicine maker born and raised in the Appalachian Mountains of southwestern Virginia, originally descended from Jewish Ashkenazi immigrants from Lithuania and Poland. Reishi is currently enrolled in the Columbine’s School of Botanical Studies in Eugene, OR where she is studying clinical herbalism, botany, and wildcrafting as stewardship with Howie Brounstein. In 2019 she graduated from the Naturopathic school Bastyr University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Herbal Science, having completed courses in Disease Processes, Botany, Anatomy & Physiology, Biochemistry, Ethnobotany, Mycology, First Aid, Herb/Drug Interactions, and more. She owns and operates her medicinal mushroom medicine business – Earth & Spirit Botanicals – designed to heal the planet & her people with sustainably wildcrafted and regeneratively cultivated herbal & fungal medicines.She seeks to be in symbiotic interspecies relationships with the plants, fungi, insects, bacteria, animals, humans, minerals, and many other lifeforms whom we co-habitate with this beautiful planet Earth.

After years in the wine industry, it was a cancer diagnosis that led me to natural wine. Now I work to advocate for education about natural wine. I also own a couple natural wine stores/ bars where I strive to be an equitable employer cuz that’s important too!

Chris is a world-renown Korean Natural Farmer (KNF) and the first to use KNF on a large-scale farm. Chris is an educator, philanthropist, and loves sushi.

Chris’ heart is to equip, empower and inform gardeners, farmers, and philanthropists Korean Natural Farming techniques that will transform livestock and crop production naturally at very little cost. He has experienced the transformation of his crops and land through KNF, and wants you to experience those results yourself.

Chris has traveled the world speaking and learning from Master Cho himself (the founder of KNF) and teaching KNF methods across the U.S. and to 3rd world countries to create sustainability.

Omar Dasco-Uribe began cultivating mushrooms in 2017 and developing mushroom centered products in 2018. He now serves over 100 clients through his work as a microdosing coach and cultivator. He is also the founder and creator of Ohms Collective, a superfood snack company, and teaches sustainable mushroom cultivation to teens in his hometown of Ojai, California.

La Osa a.k.a. Claire Weissbluth is the co-director of Tending the Garden. She is a documentary filmmaker and visual storyteller from Humboldt County, California. Claire has been creating videos about regenerative cannabis farming for the last five years, working with the Emerald Cup and Sun+Earth Certified. Tending the Garden is her first feature film.

I’ve been in a long term relationship with healing over the last 20 years. After having a handful of brain and spinal surgeries in my teens I became heavily involved with plant medicine advocacy when I became MT’s first pediatric medical cannabis patient. Plagued with a slew of brain and spinal disorders I underwent multiple complicated brain and spinal surgeries that require a lot of hardware & fusions. Multiply surgeries in return ushered in severe opioid and benzo use/dependency.. I was a byproduct of the opioid epidemic. Once realizing the connection between nervous system dysregulation and chronic pain I quickly learned how the nervous system plays one of the biggest roles in how we perceive pain. I took a deep dive into somatic practices, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork, diet, lifting weights,macro dosing, sitting with different entheogens and plant allies to slowly calm my nervous system and reclaim control over my life, free of fentanyl.. Patient advocacy is my jam and I just want to help others realize there’s quality of life outside the shackles of chronic pain. Learning to love, grieve, and forgive yourself will take you further than any healing modality.

Sammy is the Founder of Valiant Bridge Sexual Health and Kinkatharis, sex educator and intimacy specialist for adults with cancer and chronic illness. Sammy is deeply passionate about contemporary sex education and empowering people of all ages and abilities to redefine intimacy for themselves.