In this moment I am grateful for being able to light my log burner this morning and for the sun shining through the rain clouds down here in Devon.
With so much having happened since I was last posting here and working to share my gifts through The Lovely Fungus Company I’m finding it challenging to know how to start this. I’m not intending to tell the whole, or even much, of the story since I was working full time on this project. It’s been a rough journey with many beautiful moments in between – such is life. What feels important and reason for me to celebrate is that I’m back, full time, on this project and there are some exciting developments happening.
I’ve been working hard to find opportunities to collaborate and offer a space to learn and grow with fungi in the Totnes area where I’m currently based for a few months. That endeavor has brought valuable connections and plenty of challenges that have been rich in learning for me.
I’m grateful to now be able to offer a free space to meet me, some fellow fungi friends and to get creative together exploring how we can work with fungi to support the local community here. I hope to meet people in this area who have experience or interest in producing mushrooms, learning about fungi more generally and to have some fun with some creative activities. One creative thing I would personally love to do is make paper with mushrooms and do some fungi themed painting and drawing on that paper. We could even make ink from mushrooms to draw with 🙂
What’s most exciting for me is the opportunity to meet local fungi friends who have there own ideas for what they’d like to learn and create together. Perhaps you have a craft skill that we could bring a fungi theme to? Perhaps you’ve been using medicinal mushrooms to support your health and would like to share your experience and knowledge? Perhaps you’ve written a poem or a song that features fungi that you’d like to share with us – I’d love that.
There are plenty of things, fungi related, that I can and will bring to my workshop spaces and I’m grateful for all the opportunities to share my gifts. What I feel will make the workshops I’m offering so much more valuable are the gifts that participants can bring and share with us.
Thank you to all the fungi friends I’ve connected with on my journey and I look forward to meeting new ones over the next few months, and beyond.
A post will follow shortly that more formally introduces my first offering to emerge out of the freshly rekindled fire of The Lovely Fungus Company. For now there is a poster on the home page of this website and below my sign off here.
Peace and Mush Love,
Chris Forest
🍄 The Lovely Fungus Company ❤ 