Making Friends with Fungus

Monday, September 20th, 10-2 pm

at a secret, enchanted location
near Robbinsville, NC

“O Tiger-lily,” said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, `I wish you could talk!”
“We can talk,” said the Tiger-lily: “when there’s anybody worth talking to.”
Alice was so astonished that she could not speak for a minute: it quite seemed to take her breath away.
At length, as the Tiger-lily only went on waving about, Alice spoke again, in a timid voice– almost in a whisper. “And can all the flowers talk?”
“As well as you can,” said the Tiger-lily. “And a great deal louder.”
“It isn’t manners for us to begin, you know,” said the Rose, “and I really was wondering when you’d speak.”

Lewis Carrol, Through the Looking Glass

 

Can mushrooms talk? In this workshop, we'll learn the basics of wild mushroom hunting (see description here), but we'll also learn why you might want to "meet it before you eat it." After 15 years of eating, making medicine from, selling, and teaching about wild mushrooms, I can assure you that "befriending" fungi is far more valuable than simply "using" them. We'll talk about how Nonviolent Communication can turn foraging (which means to "plunder") into a mutually rewarding exchange.

For more about Nonviolent Communication, visit my relationship school, The REAL Center.

$40-60/person sliding scale, $15-40 to be put on the waiting list (refunded if the class fills).