Cart 0
Art Portfolio & Commissions Funga Photos
Cultivation Consultations Wellness Consultations
Event Board Online Mycology Course Fungal ID & Ecology Walks In-person Workshops Purchase Classes, Courses and Walks Padlet
Fungal Diversity Survey CoRenewal iNaturalist Sonoma County Mycological Association Bay Area Applied Mycology Moon Fruit Mushroom Farm
Cart 0

Symbiiotica is an eco-educational platform offering pathways of engaging in interspecies relationships. We provide spaces where teachings in ecology, mycology, mushroom cultivation, herbalism and more can be accessed and integrated.

PAST & PRESENT EVENTS

CULTIVATION CONSULTATIONS

FUNGAL ID & ECOLOGY WALKS

WELLNESS

CLASSES & WORKSHOPS

ART

AF7C16AA-C67B-49CC-9513-174B34A635A6.jpg

8 Module Online Mycology Course

You will receive the recordings of all eight presentations and the associated slide decks, a plethora of learning materials, resources, and access to a community platform shared amongst students!

 
 
 
Saskia%252BHatvany-9351.jpg

Stay updated with all of Symbiiotica’s offerings on Instagram

View fullsize I’ve been very quiet on here for the past couple of months. I’ve been attending to many things large and small in preparation for a major life transition which I have recently taken my first, stouthearted steps into. I am humbled and hon
View fullsize
View fullsize Dune shrooms! The sand dunes of Chincoteague Bay are incredibly special ecosystems that harbor a plethora of dynamic communities. The majority of monitoring, research and general public appreciation focuses on the diverse array of shore birds or art
View fullsize Like something out of a littoral dream, fungal mycelium crawls forth from the tissue of two marine invertebrates: a red beard sponge (Clathria prolifera) and a rubbery bryozoan (Alcyonidium hauffi). We found these beings in the intertidal zone of Che
View fullsize A recently completed illustration of a cross section of an ectomycorrhiza - one of this wild, sensuous earth’s most exquisite intimacies.
View fullsize One of the highlights of my summer solstice was finding this stunning Gibellula on the underside of an Urtica dioica (stinging nettle) leaf! Gibellula is a genera of parasitic Ascomycete fungi that specialize on arachnids. You can clearly see in thi
View fullsize A photo compilation of some recent hypogeous wonders from my fieldwork with the @fungaldiversitysurvey. Hypo(under)geous(earth) fungi are soil dwelling fungi that produce macroscopic fruit bodies either completely or partially buried in the soil. O
View fullsize Ever since I can remember, my dreamscape has been incredibly potent, sharply vivid, lucid, disorienting, full of chaos and pleasure and mythological beings and cryptic messages about events past, present and future (many of which come to fruition). M
View fullsize splendors of the serpentine wrapping me in a spell of mottled, blue-green geologic veneration. something… unspeakable so I walk in silence and let it be spoken by sargents cypress whose roots weave like nimble fingers through the metamorp
View fullsize A big appreciation post for these tiny ones that go largely unseen even to the curious eye. It is a goal of my work with the @fungaldiversitysurvey to focus on these minute yet absolutely stunning Ascomycetes… aka spending a lot of time crawli
View fullsize
View fullsize I have longed to meet one of the many stalked puffball species, and the last place I foresaw having my first encounter would be in an inconspicuous pot on my back porch! One rainy day I noticed a small, spherical, white rock-looking addition to one o
View fullsize Uroctonus mordax under 395 nm UV light and in natural light It took me about seven years of living in California to see the western forest scorpion. Maybe I wasn’t looking in the right places or at the right times. But just this weekend I was
View fullsize Myco (Greek mukēs): fungus Hetero (Greek heteros): other, different Trophy (Greek trophē): nourishment To put it simply, mycoheterotrophy is the strategy of using fungi to meet nutritional needs. Mycoheteroteophic plants can be either fully or par
View fullsize how many eyes does it take to look back at you before you feel seen? how many organs of perception does it take to perceive you before you feel… something? anything? how many encounters with rain and wind and rot and breath will it take b
AF7C16AA-C67B-49CC-9513-174B34A635A6.JPG