Exploring the Mycoverse: Braiding Sweetgrass - Becoming Naturalized to Place

Arlington Garden,  Monday October 7 @ 7 pm Join the Mycoverse community in reading and discussing Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer offers how we can understand the world through a plurality of knowledges: indigenous wisdom, western science, and the wisdom plants and fungi behold. Two chapters dedicated to the teachings of fungi in Braiding Sweetgrass! One on Umbilicaria (a lichen who lives here in SoCal) and another on Shkitagen (aka the tinder fungus aka chaga). Before the discussion, we invite you to read pages 205-302 in the Braiding Sweetgrass section of the book Braiding Sweetgrass. A focus of discussion will be on the section Becoming Indigenous to Place, a concept Robin Wall Kimmerer later revised in an interview with Björk to say she prefers to use the botany term naturalized instead of indigenous to more accurately describe what she means by this concept of becoming in better relationship with the land. Further discussions will take place through October to discuss other sections of the book. About Exploring the Mycoverse Exploring the Mycoverse is a fungi-focused community education group founded by the mycologist Aaron Tupac. Founded in 2021, the Mycoverse has hosted over 60 events connecting over 500 people. We meet regularly to discuss fungi with a focus on cultivating community, joy and connection intentionally.