Through this class you will:

• Explore how you want to relate to medicinal mushrooms

• Know the difference between mycelial and fruiting body products

• Understand the key constituents that are active in mushrooms

• Explore the top 12 medicinal mushrooms materia medica

• Explore what mushrooms and how to use them for skin care, cancer, immune system, and lyme

• Feel empowered to make your own medicinal mushroom creations

• Tinctures, teas, food whatever works for you

• Know how to grow medicinal mushrooms at home in your backyard

• Know how to forage for medicinal mushrooms

• Explore using psychoactive fungi safely

• Understand current research and future progress of psilocybe mushrooms

• HAVE FUN and be confident in working with medicinal mushrooms

Lindsay Chimileski ND LAc RH(AHG)

Lindsay Chimileski is a naturopathic physician, acupuncturist, registered herbalist, professor, naturalist, counselor, writer, and public speaker. She is an advocate for natural medicine, botanical fungi medicine, whole foods nutrition, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and the appreciation of nature.  Prior to her start in medicine, she focused on counseling and psychology,  as well as studying Human Development and Family Studies at The University of Connecticut.

She has years of adjunct faculty experience, redesigning the botanical medicine curriculum and teaching advanced nutrition courses at the University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine.  Dr. Chimileski co-leads ecotour excursions with students through the Jamaican rainforests, celebrating the traditional ethnobotanical uses of powerful plant medicines and their role in the culture. She lectures locally as well. In her spare time, she enjoys all things nature, greenhouses, hiking, and practicing yoga.

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Willie Crosby has been growing, teaching about, and using mushrooms for the last 9 years. He teaches the home mushroom growing and commercial mushroom growing classes at Fungi Ally. Willie has taught online for Cornell University and Umass amherst for the last 3 years as well as mushroom cultivation in person at Umass for 4 years. His main goal is to help more people discover the amazing capacity of fungi to improve our lives through food, medicine, and social thought. 

Willie works with mushrooms to help live a full, wild life. Through cultivation, education, consumption, and foraging, mushrooms have given Willie a direction and deep reservoir of resources to draw upon. Willie believes in the amazing capacity of mushrooms to strengthen mind and body and is excited to be in community while learning, sharing, and experiencing all the fungal kingdom has to offer.