Our Philosophy:
Our original ancestors were fungal beings partnered with cyanobacteria. In remembering this and the land where our human ancestors lived, we acknowledge that we currently live on occupied Abenaki land where blood, bones, and chords lie below soil. As settlers living during 'The 6th Great Extinction,' aiming to transform exploitative systems rooted in genocide, we look to nutrient exchange networks of fungi, plants, shrubs, and trees for guidance.
Mycoevolve is dedicated to honoring the cradle from grave potential below our feet and thereby nurture ecological (revitalize, rejuvenate, restore) resiliency work tending to microbial networks. Through deliberate inoculation to substrate, interspecies symbiosis is facilitated and aboveground regenerative systems are set in motion.
MycoEvolve harnesses regenerative agricultural practices which enhance habitat while restoring the watershed. Through research, earthworks, and education we support farmers and land tenders to improve their practices to diversify habitat while improving watershed health.
Our practices collaborate with these regenerative beings:
- In industrial areas: fungi absorb heavy metals into substrate from which elements can be extracted & recycled.
- In agricultural areas: mycelial nets catch pathogens, excess phosphate & nitrate runoff, protect watershed health.
- In toxic petrochemical areas: mycelial mats soak up hydrocarbon spills and break compounds down to benign
- In urban neighborhoods: fungi innoculations border abandoned areas, buffering spaces for gardens & habitat
- In rural areas: protective, innoculated shields border forest, field, & riparian zones for flourishing corridor
- Around buildings: nutrient exchange networks interweave while filtering, catching, and redirecting stormwater
- Throughout landscapes: microbial rich compost stores carbon, creating nutrient dense soil for habitats
Our original ancestors were fungal beings partnered with cyanobacteria. In remembering this and the land where our human ancestors lived, we acknowledge that we currently live on occupied Abenaki land where blood, bones, and chords lie below soil. As settlers living during 'The 6th Great Extinction,' aiming to transform exploitative systems rooted in genocide, we look to nutrient exchange networks of fungi, plants, shrubs, and trees for guidance.
Mycoevolve is dedicated to honoring the cradle from grave potential below our feet and thereby nurture ecological (revitalize, rejuvenate, restore) resiliency work tending to microbial networks. Through deliberate inoculation to substrate, interspecies symbiosis is facilitated and aboveground regenerative systems are set in motion.
MycoEvolve harnesses regenerative agricultural practices which enhance habitat while restoring the watershed. Through research, earthworks, and education we support farmers and land tenders to improve their practices to diversify habitat while improving watershed health.
Our practices collaborate with these regenerative beings:
- In industrial areas: fungi absorb heavy metals into substrate from which elements can be extracted & recycled.
- In agricultural areas: mycelial nets catch pathogens, excess phosphate & nitrate runoff, protect watershed health.
- In toxic petrochemical areas: mycelial mats soak up hydrocarbon spills and break compounds down to benign
- In urban neighborhoods: fungi innoculations border abandoned areas, buffering spaces for gardens & habitat
- In rural areas: protective, innoculated shields border forest, field, & riparian zones for flourishing corridor
- Around buildings: nutrient exchange networks interweave while filtering, catching, and redirecting stormwater
- Throughout landscapes: microbial rich compost stores carbon, creating nutrient dense soil for habitats
Staff:
Jess Rubin (Founder , Researcher, Educator & Creative Director). Since childhood I practice listening to and reading the surrounding living landscapes. While earning herbalism, nature awareness, outdoor education, & permaculture certificates, a BA from Cornell University (Cum Laude) in Ecological Literature with Native American Studies minor, & a Masters of Environmental Science with VT middle & high school science teaching license from Antioch New England, I have been able to observe human and earth system dynamics, witness trophic web relationships as a research technician, monitor wild corridors, rehabilitate degraded ecosystems, and rejuvenate recovering habitat. I have spent the past 20 years educating from this practice various human populations in diverse capacities: permaculture gardener, nature mentor, outdoor educator, wilderness guide, conservation crew leader, middle and high school science teacher, environmental studies college adjunct faculty, university guest lecturer, and after school ecological core staff. Lichen are my oldest mentors. I currently also research regenerative agricultural techniques using fungi and polyculture infrastructure in watershed restoration. Here are current earthworks & teaching resumes.
Hannah Huber: Mycological Research Technician. I am Mycoevolve’s Research Technician, and is also a graduate student at Antioch University New England self-designing her Master’s in Applied Mycology and Ecological Restoration. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in 2014 at Paul Smith’s College in biology and environmental science, with a minor in chemistry, and while there met her first mycology mentor, mushroom dye artist Susan Hopkins. Originally from Michigan, Hannah began her mushroom education in the 90’s hunting for morels with her father as a toddler. Hannah believes in the intelligence of fungi to lend a “helping hypha.” Learn more about Hannah’s mycological adventures at hannahshyphae.com.
Travis Berg: Soil Research Technician Soil is the building block of life. For me, it is the motivation and dream. As co-founder, CEO, and soil scientist behind Infinity Soils, I am passionate about how ecology and mushroom cultivation play an integral role in helping us reverse environmental damage and usher in a new age. I’ve been fortunate to pursue an education in Ecology through Dr. Elaine Ingham’s Soil Food Web Certification, completed a cultivation course with Paul Stamets, and a mycoremediation course with Ja Schindler. Though my passion lies in soil, I have also had amazing opportunities to pursue other interests. As a teenager, obsessed with auto mechanics, I learned a great deal. As a young adult, I pursued professional trade school to become a certified construction electrician. I joined the US Army and have been a member of the Army National Guard since 2013. I am grateful for experiences which led me to live my dream life: to work every day to make the world a cleaner, healthier, more vibrant place. I’m honored to be apart of the crew here at Mycoevolve.
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A peek into our Green Mountain Mycelium Lab:
Here are a few pix of Vermont Myconode members gathering, working on the lab, checking out mycelium, meeting....
Current core members:
Jeff Corbet, Jeffrey Blant, Jess Rubin, Alex McGowan, John Schreiner, Sue Van Hook, William Kinney, Travis Berg
Jeff Corbet, Jeffrey Blant, Jess Rubin, Alex McGowan, John Schreiner, Sue Van Hook, William Kinney, Travis Berg
Members of Vermont permaculture & earth activist communities formed the Vermont MycoNode, an offshoot of the Radical Mycology Network. We research, practice inoculation techniques, experiment with, and educate about how to apply fungi in habitat enhancing applications such as food & medicine in clean sites & through remediative infrastructure in polluted sites. Our past endeavors involved working with different fungal species; inoculating cold pasteurized straw with liquid spores, transferring liquid to grain spawn and grain spawn to cold pasteurized straw & woodchips, creating outdoor installations, inoculating logs for food & medicine, and tending a mycelium nursery and fungal strain library. We grow mycelium for inner city, suburban, & farm resilience projects. Our collective lab, "Green Mountain Mycelium" is now set up at our home base at Valhalla VT. We are in process of setting up our mycelium and liquid culture libraries and experimenting with hemp hulls, a local farm's waste product, to discover effective substrate for mushroom grow kits. Our facebook group is VTMyconode.
In service to watershed Bitawbagok (as the Abenaki call it: 'The Lake Between,') known by settlers as Lake Champlain, Mycoevolve aims to become a 501c3 nonprofit collective on land consciously serving through a nursery, living laboratory, & education center.
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Please contact us if you are interested in joining, collaborating, & or in supporting this endeavor!
(802) 839 -8286 yepeth@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/mycoevolve/ |
