We have made the difficult decision to Cancel Mycelium Connection Campout.

This page will be taken down as soon as we finish refunding the people who bought tickets.

While a lot of people told us they were excited, unfortunately, with only 7 tickets sold a week ahead, we can't afford to compensate our instructors & crew or justify the energy it would take to produce this event.

This has been a year of growth & learning. We've had some beautiful successes & a few uncomfortable failures. One thing we're figuring out is starting up a new festival takes A LOT more strategic partnership & promotion than concerts. We (overly) ambitiously attempted to launch 3 weekend campouts this year -- Earth Fest, Hip Hop in the Holler & Mycelium Connection -- on top of managing a community, regenerative farm, and producing a constant stream of concerts, weddings & retreats.

Our admin team is only 2 people, and despite our best efforts & intentions we over-committed.

While we believe this was a beautiful offering -- we just didn't have the capacity to promote this event enough to get the word out. We are sincerely sorry if this cancellation disappoints you or negatively impacts your plans. There is a chance we will produce this or a similarly themed event next year. If we do so, we will definitely let you know.

Thank you for your ongoing support -- we look forward to producing more beautiful events for you this fall & beyond!

In Community,

The Hawk & Hawthorne team

Mycelium Connection:
3 Day Mycology Immersion

September 22nd - 24th, 2023

Join rewilding citizen scientist WILLIAM PADILLA-BROWN and herbalist, mycologist & ecological steward REISHI STRAUSS for an in depth weekend immersion of hands-on workshops, training & education

Participants will:

Dive into the magickal world of mushrooms, demystifying both wild & cultivated fungi through lecture & hands-on practice
Spend the weekend in community, out on the land, learning & practicing identification, ethical cultivation & foraging techniques, guided by leading citizen mycologists
Try multiple functional mushroom teas, tinctures & extracts -- and learn to make your own medicines
Spend time in the Barn-turned-laboratory, learning cutting edge low-tech methods for cloning and propagating mushrooms from wild specimens.
Discuss the culinary, ecological, and sociological impacts with leading citizen mycologists
Enjoy all the natural beauty, springs, forest trails and nourishment the Hawk & Hawthorne has to offer – plus two nights of specially curated musical performance!

By the end of this immersion, you will be able to understand and identify many types of fungi, make conscious choices with your time in nature, and see the dynamic forest from a citizen-scientist perspective.

== SCHEDULE ==
[Details May Shift! Be sure to double check for the final schedule as we get closer.]

Friday, Sept. 22nd

1 – 4pm: Camper check-in

4 – 7pm: Opening Circle, Introduction talks with William and Reishi

William: TBA

Reishi: The Magical World of Mushrooms

6:15: Dinner – Vegan; by donation (sliding scale $10 - $20)

7pm: Doors for Friday night show

7:30: Reishi Cacao circle

Music TBA

11pm: “Lit Up!” Walk in the Woods with William: Using UV forays to search for fluorescent fungi & lichen

Saturday, Sept 23rd

9am: Coffee, Tea & Light Breakfast

9:15 – 10: Movement: Yoga with Reishi or walk to the Bear Cave

10:30: Morning circle

11 – 2pm: Cultivating Mushrooms: Hands-On Workshop with William

2 – 2:30: Lunch break (bring your own)

2:30 – 4: (TBD) Cordyceps Walk with William

4 – 6: Microdosing & Synergistic Herb Combinations with Reishi

Special Guest Speaker: Ethnomycology & Beyond: Amanita Muscaria with Scarlett Grace

6:15: Dinner

7: Doors for Show

7:30 Reishi Cacao Circle (TBD)

Music TBA

Fireside Vibez

Sunday, Sept. 24th

9am: Coffee, Tea & Light Breakfast

9:15 – 10: Movement: Yoga with Reishi or walk to the Bear Cave

10:30: Morning circle

11 – 2pm: Cultivation Workshop pt 2 with William
*OR* Mushroom Medicine-Making with Reishi

2 – 2:30: Lunch (Bring your own)

2:30 – 4pm: Reishi, a short film; Biological Alpha & Omega talk with William

4 – 6pm: Mycelial Mapping Workshop with Reishi

Closing Circle & Farewells

== ABOUT THE HAWK & HAWTHORNE ==

The Hawk & Hawthorne is a uniquely beautiful 50-acre venue, stewarded by a practicing permaculture community – just 20 minutes north of Asheville, NC.

Classes will be held in the heritage tobacco barn, amidst an expansive valley full of fruit trees, gardens, spring-fed ponds & majestic views, with excursions into the edges of the Pisgah National Forest.

Check out the short video below for a glimpse into the magick!

== EDUCATOR BIOS ==

WILLIAM PADILLA-BROWN (Sept. 22-24th) is a Multidisciplinary Citizen Scientist practicing social science, mycology, phycology, molecular biology, and additive manufacturing. William founded and is the current CEO of MycoSymbiotics, a permaculture research and production business, focused on innovative practical applied biological science.

William is constantly in the mix of Contemporary Ritual in a nuanced modern Urban Shamanism, spending his time vlogging for social media, writing, contributing for Fungi mag, researching, rapping, singing, and loving his Beautiful Lady Lydia and their son Leo.

He also published the first books written in the English language on Cordyceps cultivation.

In 2021, William’s research has been sponsored by MUDwtr, and affiliated with Mydecine, Oxford Nanopore, MiniPCR, ExtractCraft, and OmegaBiotek. William and his work have been featured on Fantastic Fungi, VICE, Buzzfeed, The Verge, and many more.

REISHI STRAUSS is a clinical herbalist, mycologist, and ecological steward born and raised in the Appalachian Mountains of southwestern Virginia, originally descended from Jewish Ashkenazi immigrants from Lithuania and Poland. Reishi is currently enrolled in the Columbine’s School of Botanical Studies in Eugene, OR where she is studying clinical herbalism, botany, and wildcrafting as stewardship with Howie Brounstein in the lineage of Michael Moore.

In 2019 she graduated from the Seattle naturopathic school Bastyr University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Herbal Science.

While at Bastyr, Reishi and William Padilla Brown conducted research investigating the potency of various extractions of Cordyceps militaries. She currently owns and operates her medicinal mushroom medicine business – Earth & Spirit Botanicals – designed to heal the planet & people with sustainably wildcrafted and regeneratively cultivated herbal & fungal medicines.

SCARLETT GRACE (she/her/they) is a mycologist, artist, farmer, community organizer, and mushroom muse based in Asheville NC. She founded her functional mushroom company called The Wild’s Craft, which is a women owned and operated collective with the intention of deeply nourishing the connection between earth-based medicines and the people. Scarlett is a graduate of the Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism and has studied Mycology through UNC Asheville and Oregon State University. As an artist and educator, Scarlett’s intention is to inspire others to turn towards nature as our mother, our muse and our greatest teacher.

We offer discounted tickets for BIPOC & disadvantaged groups, email us at hawkandhawthorne@gmail.com

Mycelium Connection Campout w/ William Padilla-Brown & Reishi Strauss

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Mycelium Connection Campout w/ William Padilla-Brown & Reishi Strauss

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