In 1897 the painter Paul Gauguin wrote: “Where do we come from, what are we, where are we going?”.
Our planet is in crisis. Our climate is out of balance, pollution is getting worse, human health is suffering, and other life forms are facing extinction. The world of fungi is rising to the occasion in so many ways to lend a helping, and healing, hand. They offer us powerful medicine and extraordinarily nutritious food. They offer non-toxic alternatives for building and packaging materials, they clean up our contaminated soil and water, and they even eat our plastic.
And, importantly, they “lead by example”: showing us, if we look deeply at their wonderful “Wood Wide Web” that the way out of this mess is through collaboration, cooperation, interconnection, and partnership.
Research
Our research includes culturing local mushroom species and strains “native” to our local forest ecology, as well as explorations in developing alternatives to single-use plastic, which is much over-used in conventional mushroom farming. Our mission pivots on a commitment to help defend against species extinction and climate change, as well as to “food as medicine”.
Education
Our workshops offer learning on a variety of interrelated topics including mushrooms as food and medicine, cooking, growing them, history, lore, traditional use, applications in art and building, and more!
Dream Farm Unlimited, LLC Founded 2021
About Us
Cynthia Skovlin
Founder & Owner
Cynthia has been a mycologist for over 30 years and lives in Point Reyes Station. She brings her training in landscape architecture, biodynamic farming, urban planning, ecology and philosophy to the mission and vision for Dream Farm Mushrooms, and is a member of the climate action artist collective CICADA.
