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, redirect excess phosphate & nitrate runoff, protect watershed health.
- In toxic petrochemical areas: mycelial mats soak up hydrocarbon spills and break compounds down to benign compounds
- 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, redirect excess phosphate & nitrate runoff, protect watershed health.
- In toxic petrochemical areas: mycelial mats soak up hydrocarbon spills and break compounds down to benign compounds
- 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 , Earth Tender, Researcher, Educator & Creative Director). Since childhood I practice listening to and reading 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 NE, I observe human and earth system dynamics, witness trophic web relationships, monitor wild corridors, rehabilitate degraded ecosystems, and rejuvenate recovering habitat. For the past 20 years I educate from this practice various human populations in diverse capacities: permaculture gardener, nature mentor, outdoor educator, wilderness guide, conservation crew leader, middle & high school science teacher, environmental studies college adjunct faculty, university guest lecturer, and afterschool ecological core staff. Lichen are my oldest mentors. I currently also research regenerative agricultural techniques incorporating fungi and polyculture infrastructure in watershed restoration. Here is a relevant resume.
MycoEvolve is so grateful to have worked with amazing teams of people in various projects. Here are a few folks who have supported our mission with their wisdom, hard work and vision.
Hannah Huber: Mycological Research Technician. 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. As co-founder, CEO, and soil scientist behind Infinity Soils, he is passionate about how ecology and fungi cultivation play an integral role in helping reverse environmental damage and usher in a new age. He has pursued 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. From professional trade school he become a certified construction electrician. Travis joined the US Army and has been a member of the Army National Guard since 2013. Stay tuned for classes Travis teaches through VT Myconode.
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Vermont Myconode: 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 cultures
- transferring liquid to grain spawn and grain spawn to cold pasteurized straw & woodchips
- creating outdoor installations
- inoculating logs for food & medicine
- 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. As we grow our mycelium & liquid culture libraries we are experimenting with hemp hulls ( a local farm's waste product) in mushroom grow kits, and working with hollow dried plant species such as Japanese Knotweed for our grow kit containers instead of plastic bags.
Join us in our winter-spring, summer workshop educational series!!
Our facebook group is VTMyconode.
Below is a peek into our Green Mountain Mycelium Lab:
Our past endeavors involved:
- working with different fungal species
- inoculating cold pasteurized straw with liquid cultures
- transferring liquid to grain spawn and grain spawn to cold pasteurized straw & woodchips
- creating outdoor installations
- inoculating logs for food & medicine
- 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. As we grow our mycelium & liquid culture libraries we are experimenting with hemp hulls ( a local farm's waste product) in mushroom grow kits, and working with hollow dried plant species such as Japanese Knotweed for our grow kit containers instead of plastic bags.
Join us in our winter-spring, summer workshop educational series!!
Our facebook group is VTMyconode.
Below is a peek into our Green Mountain Mycelium Lab:
Vermont Myconode members gather, work on the lab, check out mycelium, meet, grok, learn....
Current core members:
Jeff Corbett, Jeffrey Lemire, Jess Rubin, Alex McGowan, John Schreiner, Sue Van Hook, Travis Berg, Dean Wollenberg
Jeff Corbett, Jeffrey Lemire, Jess Rubin, Alex McGowan, John Schreiner, Sue Van Hook, Travis Berg, Dean Wollenberg
In service to watershed Bitawabagok (as the Abenaki call it: 'The Lake Between,') known by settlers as Lake Champlain, Mycoevolve aims to ground into land supporting Abenaki repatriation while we tend ecosystems 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/ |
