Lost Tribes

20/07/2025

Victorian ethnobotanical & psychedelic conference set for late November. Join the community to share knowledge and plant the seeds of medicine plants 🌵

13/02/2025

It's Back for 2025 - Garden States: Outdoor Ethnobotanical Conference

November 28th – December 1st, 2025 Outdoor Ethnobotanical Conference A forum for cultivating ethnobotanical plants, knowledge, and community Entheogenesis Australis (EGA) is pleased to announce that we will be holding an outdoor ethnobotanical conference in 2025. For decades, our iconic outdoor ev...

12/08/2024

The Dawn of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Research and Hallucinogenic Experimentation Introduction The Good, the Bad and the Forgotten The early history of Australian clinical research into psychedelic-assisted therapy using psilocybin and L*D has largely faded from memory. With the current

24/01/2024

TONIGHT! 🍄🍄🍄
Mycologists Dr. Alistair McTaggart and Caine Barlow will be unpacking the tale of enchantment around these remarkable fungi, inviting you to explore the hidden wonders of the world’s most popular source of psilocybin. Dr Symon Beck will also be making an appearance to help us understand psilocybin mushrooms from a harm reduction perspective.
Don't miss this insightful journey into the Australian perspective on Cubensis! Tune in for an evening of mycological magic and discover the emerging wonders of Psilocybe cubensis.

Garden States Microdose Webcast - Episode 24 Cubensis Rising: History, diversity, ID info, safety & research updatesEGA is hosting a free Microdose webcast o...

30/11/2022

Only 24hrs until the first full-scale, livestreamed EGA conference!
We’re so excited to have all our interstate and international community with us, live, for the first time ever 🌱🍄

Garden States 2022 is a Three Day Forum for Cultivating Ethnobotanical Plants, Research, Knowledge and Community

17/08/2022

We invite you to join Douglas Rushkoff in an online conversation at Garden States with Melbourne writer and long-term friend of EGA Rich Hariday 🤓

Ready to join Team Human and help regrow society?

Dr. Douglas Rushkoff is an author, teacher and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures and institutions create, share and influence each other’s values. We invite you to join Douglas Rushkoff in an online conversation at Garden States with Melbourne writer and long-term friend of EGA, Rich Haridy.

Author of 20 books across a range of topics, including Team Human, who knows where Dr Rushkoff might take us!

Check out details of Dr Rushkoff's presentation and more: https://gardenstates.org/douglas-rushkoff/

EGA Garden States conferences are a not-for-profit community initiative designed to explore the relationship between plants and humans, including botany, gardening, conservation, sustainability, chemistry, art, consciousness, philosophy, medicine, harm reduction and politics.

Yep, Garden States has more ethnobotanical and psychedelic content than you can shake a pH meter at! Keep in mind this conference is running as a hybrid event for the first time. If you can’t make it in-person, you can always join us online 💚 🌱

Get your tickets before they run out: https://www.trybooking.com/BIGUW

Visit our conference website for more info: www.gardenstates.org

08/08/2022

If you love plants of culture and significance, Australia’s oldest ethnobotanical conference is now less than four months away…

If you love plants of culture and significance, Australia’s oldest ethnobotanical conference is now less than four months away…

The in-person program includes keynote presenters David Holmgren, Dr Margaret Ross, Janet Laurence, Renee Harvey, Suresh Muthukumaraswamy, Dr Alison Pouliot, Lynette Wallworth and Snu Voogelbreinder. Luminaries Douglas Rushkoff, Dennis McKenna Ph.D., The Seed SistAs, John Seed, and Keeper Trout will also be streaming in.

If you have an interest in plants, gardening and altered states, then this conference is for you.

There are many more visionaries, scientists, growers, psychologists, artists and revolutionaries on the bill – they’ll all be joining us in December for Garden States 2022.

Over half of the in-person tickets have already been snapped up, so you better get yours or you’ll end up like the last person to a mushroom patch.

Visit our conference website for more info - www.gardenstates.org
Get tickets while they last: https://www.trybooking.com/BIGUW

17/06/2022

Thinking of heading to the forest to look for mushrooms this season? Be sure to watch and share this new ID video from Caine Barlow and the EGA team 😀

If you are foraging for culinary or medicinal species being able to identify the fungi you find is essential - if you are foraging for fun, the journey becom...

14/05/2022

Psychedelic Minds get ready - EGA TICKETS GO ON SALE THURSDAY THE 19TH OF MAY

Now is your last chance to register your interest to receive our discounted ticket offer ✨🌈

Do you love medicine plants or have an interest in the field of psychedelic science? Look no further than this year’s long-awaited Garden States ethnobotanical conference. From gardening to mycology, psychoactive plants to psilocybin-assisted therapy – this is a consciousness-expanding event like no other.

Don’t miss out on this limited discount ticket offer. There will be both streaming and in-person tickets options, so do not let distance stop you from participating.

Join us to plant seeds for earth, body and mind. If you filled in the EOI form you will get an email in the coming days.

Simply fill out the EOI form link below Wednesday the 18th of May 😁 - https://forms.office.com/r/wgXSGpZ2rV

25/03/2022

Get ready for the Plant Head event of the year 🤓

Garden States 2022 is a not-for-profit initiative, designed to encourage community building around medicinal plants, research, and psychedelic culture. Get your hands dirty and learn how to grow and share ethnobotanical plants from the experts. Participate in citizen science and meet like-minded bot...

26/02/2022

This is a fantastic Lecture on Entheogenic Conservation 🌵

Anya Ermakova - Entheogenic Conservation: Protecting naturally-occurring psychoactivesTalk Synopsis Psychedelics have an incredible potential to catalyse cha...

09/02/2022

Upcoming Acacia Conservation and ID webcast 🌱

Our twelfth Microdose Webcast concerns the intersection of the DMT market, privacy, conservation and Australian Acacia. We will be joined by psychedelic gardener and drug science communicator Dr Liam Engel. Liam will discuss the community-led Conseracacian project. We will also share a short segment...