Mycelial Medicines

Want to learn or practice a land based skill? I have lived in rustic and close to the land situations on and off since 2018 and am happy to negotiate work trade or payment to share what I know about skills such as firekeeping, making firewood, scavenging roadkill, making plant fiber cordage, keeping honeybees, conducting controlled burns, gathering plants for food and medicine in an honorable way following Indigenous teachings such as those of the Potawatomi and Haudenosaunee, preserving and preparing wild foods and medicines, and general strategies in living without running water or an eletrical grid.

abifergus@proton.me

I began to study food as medicine after injuring my shoulder in 2018 and resultingly beginning to deal with associated chronic pain that steroids did not help. I started eating stinging nettles, drinking them in tea, and even applying the sting to my shoulder to relieve the painful inflammation. It changed my life for the better to realize that we can forage plants and fungi that heal and support us. These same plants and mushrooms are what much of our pharmaceuticals are derived from.

I approach food as medicine like I do the other practices in my life- honoring traditional knowledge systems which pre-date and were relied on before the western scientific method along with the western scientific method. We know the effects of eating heavily processed foods on our long-term health. Reintroducing traditional foods can go a long way in managing pain and preventing disease. I am not a medical practitioner and I do not diagnose folks, but I do listen to what they are struggling with and can recommend based on that listening what from my collection of foraged herbs might help. This page outlines most of what herbs I have available on a sliding scale suggested donation basis.

Current Stock (will remain low until growing season of 2026)

Dried Herbs
• Reishi
• Birchdrop
• Turkey tail
• Lion’s Mane

Tinctures
• St johns wort
• Evening primrose
• Artist conk, resihi, birch drop, turkey tail blend
• Elderflower
• Hops

Oxymels
• Wood sorrel
• Wood sorrel and agrimony
• Magnolia
• Hawthorn, violet, and motherwort

Massage Oils
• Angelica and lilac