🪨 🌱 Join us for Lichen Study Club!
After the Slime Mould Study Club turned out to be such a joy, we’ve decided to keep the momentum going with something equally strange and wonderful: lichens!
Once again we’re keeping it pretty informal. You’re welcome to do as many or as few of the readings as you’d like, join the weekly call for a chat or just listen in.
Fiver a pop, whole month for £20. Book on via ticket tailor.
(If you saw us launch this in the newsletter with the wrong link yesterday, no you didn’t 🤡)
**Thanks for all the interest. All places are now filled but you can sign up for our waitlist via ticket tailor to be notified if any become available.
🌷🌿 Thanks to funding from NHS Greater Manchester, Myco are excited to offer Rooted - a free three-part wellbeing programme designed for LGBT+ people interested in nature and creativity.
For more info & to book your place head over to our ticket tailor.
💖🥂 Big gay mushroomy THANK-YOU for everyone who joined us to celebrate our 5th birthday today! We are so very lucky to have such a lovely community alongside us for this journey x
A few pics from the first inks & dyes Rooted session, taken by botanical alchemist @nellsmithprints 🧙♀️🌸
We’ve slowed right down for these sessions, focusing less on ecological skills and more on creative practice as a means of supporting wellbeing. We’ve noticed small details on wild walks, made our own recycled paper and combined foraged materials with science magic to produce inks & dyes.
We’ve got a couple of last minute spots available for this queer wellbeing programme! If this sounds like your jam, grab your free spot on our ticket tailor.
Super lovely springtime foray at our annual wild garlic forage & ferment today 🍃 thanks to everyone who came and made it so lovely, even with the sporadic hail!
In February, we ran our first study club, exploring the fascinating + gooey world of slime moulds.
We've now decided to make our reading list for the club freely available for anyone who wants to go on their own slime mould research adventure. Head to the below link/scan the QR code for our reading list of articles, blog posts, videos and podcasts exploring this intriguing tiny world.
🌳 /slimereadings
"Eggless" egg and cress mayo with tofu and foraged hairy bittercress 🌿
Scroll to the end for a surprise 🧄
Recipe / process and id tips on our substack 😊
If you want to learn more about foraging check out our upcoming wild garlic walks!
Belated thank-you to all the SENSATIONAL volunteers who've been to our fermentation volunteer sessions over the last few months. We've been able to process many hefty boxes of brassicas into tasty sauerkraut for use in community meals at @plattfields_marketgarden , and had a lovely time doing it 💪🥬
Hi! We’re sick of social media!
A few years ago we put a lot of energy into ~feeding the algorithm~ and ~building our audience~ and ~creating content~. But it’s just so much work! And it feels gross to invest so much of ourselves into these platforms that are so saturated with lies and ads.
So this is just a little message to say: we’re officially not trying to do anything fancy on here any more. We’re not disappearing or moving anywhere else and will keep posting events etc. But we’d love to have you on our mailing list if you aren’t already.
Our newsletter goes out every month or so and has info about what we’re up to. If you’d like to stay in touch with us, that’s your best bet. And if you want to work with us: please email rather than DM!
For an algorithm-free future 🩷🍄🟫
Spring is coming! And that means wild garlic!
For our 3rd year (!) in a row, we’re running a wild garlic forage & ferment day. These have become one of our fave events: we go for a walk round the gorgeous Fletcher Moss, chat about foraging and snap up some wild garlic before heading back to @plattfields_marketgarden for a nice communal fermentation session. Each attendee takes home two jars of tasty funky goodness.
Only 12 spots so snap your spot while you can 🧄✨
The by-election is on Thursday, 26th February!
If you aren't registered to vote yet, the deadline is 10th Feb for this election.
You can still vote even if you’re a Commonwealth citizen, or have no fixed address.
Register online – it only takes 5 minutes /register-to-vote
You can get help with registration at any of our Local Voices events too!
Yapping about our upcoming Slime Mould Study Club for 2 minutes (why is there no slime emoji 😪)
Throughout Feb, we’re running something a little different: an online study club with weekly readings to explore the world of slime moulds. You can join us for the whole month (£20) or just one week (£5).
More info & tickets over on our ticket tailor!
