Running with Mushrooms

Hello mushroom lovers! Another story today, about how amazing people are working with amazing #fungi to build self sufficiency for people living with #refugee status. I'm deliberately saying 'people with refugee status', because refugee is not an identity, but just a status. Bemeriki Bisimwa Dusabe shares insight into the refugee experience. In our podcast we talk about: 🔅 The refugee experience 🔅 Permaculture practice and self-sustaining farming systems 🔅 Oyster mushroom farming and self-sufficiency 🔅 Why mushrooms work so well in the refugee context 🔅 Grappling with identity and multi-nationalism 🔅 Refugee as a status, not an identity 🔅 Integration with a host community 🔅 And more. Just a note: In this episode, we discuss themes that some might find distressing, such as the refugee experience, war crimes and child orphans. Please consider supporting Rwamwanja Rural Foundation - there are many ways to get involved! Links in comments 👇👇 🍄 ❣

Listen to MycoTile as a member of the third cohort or the Morgan Stanley Sustainable Solutions Collaborative and the amazing works of the rest or the cohort and the entire collaborative group.

"Self-sufficiency and resilience aren’t just buzzwords: people need to earn and to eat." Unpacking this (and a lot more) with HODARI FOUNDATION 's Janvier HAFASHA in my latest article. It's a long one so grab a cup of lion's mane coffee. [Please consider checking out Hodari's work - there are many ways to get involved which I outline at the end of the article https://lnkd.in/e4Rziqsd ] Link in comments 👇👇

During my visit to Uganda a few months ago, we had the pleasure of being introduced to Hope Mushroom Initiative - a group of #mushroom farmers, mostly women, living with #refugee status after being forced to leave their homes in the DRC. For Furaha (chairperson of the group) and her colleagues, mushrooms are helping to provide an income stream, nutrition and overall wellbeing. They're also learning business skills like grant writing, accounting etc. All of this incredible work is possible because of the HODARI FOUNDATION , who hosted us and showed us around Kyaka II refugee settlement. Basically, they are single-handedly ticking a bunch of the UN's SDGs. 🎥 Video below is a sneak peek meeting the Hope Mushroom Initiative team! In my latest podcast, I chat with Janvier HAFASHA - the Founder and Executive Director of HODARI FOUNDATION , about this work, how mushrooms are helping to reimagine desirable living for people with refugee status in Ugandan settlements. Just a note: in this episode, we discuss themes that some might find distressing, like the refugee experience, child orphans, sexual and gender-based violence, and suicide. 👇 Listen below; link's in the comments, and please consider supporting the amazing work that Hodari is doing. There are many ways to get involved, here: https://lnkd.in/eyKBqDFu

🍄 New podcast is up! Today I'm chatting with Janvier HAFASHA - the Founder and Executive Director of the HODARI FOUNDATION . Based in Uganda, Hodari helps refugees in Kyaka II refugee settlement in southwestern Uganda, to become self-sufficient. They do this by teaching people, mostly women, to grow and sell #mushrooms The title of this episode is 'Reimagining desirable living for refugees', because the work that Hodari is involved in, goes way beyond just growing mushrooms. Janvier explains during our chat, and in a couple days I'll release an article going deeper into it all. Just a note: in this episode, we discuss themes that some might find distressing, like the refugee experience, child orphans, sexual and gender-based violence, and suicide. 👇 Listen below; link's in the comments #funga #fungi #mushrooms #mycology  #fungilove   #newpodcastepisode #refugeecrisis #refugee #uganda #foodsecurity #buildingresilience #eastafrica

In case you missed it! The super fun Giulia Romanò of Field Notes invited RWM's Jess Jorgensen to have a bant about... well, mushrooms of course. Specifically, how mushrooms can inspire better insights in global research. You can expect some lessons, from mushrooms, about how to do better research, and a chuckle or 3 to add a shine to your Monday ☕ 🤓 Check back on Monday for the episode! Mush love! 🍄 ❤️

Until recently, job titles didn’t include ‘microdosing’. In 2024 it’s a thing, and I’m all for it. In this chat with Donna (not her real name), a Microdosing Consultant and Psychedelic Sitter based in South Africa, I learned how #psychedelics are opening up new career options, and how #microdosing is like the gentle cousin of macro-dose journeying. Donna shares deeply personal insight into her transformative experiences with psilocybin #mushrooms, and how she’s using these learnings from the #fungi to serve others. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did 🍄❤️ (link in comments)

Until recently, job titles didn’t include ‘microdosing’. In 2024 it’s a thing, and I’m all for it. In this chat with Donna (not her real name), a Microdosing Consultant and Psychedelic Sitter based in South Africa, I learned how #psychedelics are opening up new career options, and how #microdosing is like the gentle cousin of macro-dose journeying. Donna shares deeply personal insight into her transformative experiences with psilocybin #mushrooms, and how she’s using these learnings from the #fungi to serve others. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did 🍄❤️ https://lnkd.in/eb2-TE6k

Forests are such a great example of a sustainable closed system, and can't do this without fungi. In my latest podcast chat, nature lover, scientist and educator Mark Dixon and I go beyond the basics (like - mycelium allows trees to talk and nutrients to recycle) to explore why fungi are so crucial, how forests are possibly the most sustainable closed systems, and the role that humans play (like - to forage, or not to forage?) I had a lot of fun on this one - hope you do too. Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts 😁 https://lnkd.in/ewZB5G7w #funga #fungi #mushrooms #mycology #lovenature #forestecology #forest #ecology #gardenroute  #fantasticfungi  #fungilove #foraging #mushroomforaging #newpodcastepisode

Did you know that a forest can’t exist without fungi? In my latest podcast chat, we go beyond the basics and into the (many!) crazy cool roles that fungi play in an ecosystem — guided by nature lover, scientist and educator Mark Dixon, while we take a forest stroll in South Africa’s stunning Garden Route. Here's Mark getting excited about decomposing mycelium - it's hard not to share his enthusiasm! Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts 😁 https://lnkd.in/ewZB5G7w #funga #fungi #mushrooms #mycology #lovenature #forestecology #forest #ecology #gardenroute  #fantasticfungi  #fungilove #foraging #mushroomforaging #newpodcastepisode