Mycoremediation workshop hosted in Española, New Mexico with Tewa Women United as part of the Exhibition, Gently Radical Changing. This workshop/performance was directed towards empowering the community through providing tools and information for ways to remediate their lands and homes with mushroom and mycelium cultivation. I first gave a brief description of fungal biochemistry and then went through the cultivation process, also making 7 more remediation pillows to be buried with To Pass Through Safely. Participants took home bricks of mycelium with instructions for care to observe their growth for six weeks. After their bricks produced flushes of oyster mushrooms many of the participants came back to the Healing Food Oasis and buried their bricks for continued remediation.
Special thanks to Melodia D’Amour and Joel Silverston for their tremendous support, assistance, and knowledge with the workshop.