Bay Staters for Natural Medicine

05/04/2026

Forest Fun 🍄‍🟫🌿

The best part about these community events is no matter your background or your experience level, they’re welcoming for you to learn or even share your own wisdom too

Always family friendly and accessible for all ages

So bring a friend or five and a gift if you’d like to support our work. Mushlove ❤️

Follow the QR code or the event sign up to add this to your calendar and get our team’s updates ⬅️

05/04/2026

Better together 🍄‍🟫🌿

Thank you to all those who fared the weather to discover new fungi friends, including turkey tail, false turkey tail, violet tooth, laughing gyms, reishi, white rot fungus, blue stain fungus, a slime mold, birch polypore and many more

It was awesome to bring together such lovely people to celebrate the ecosystem while exchanging wisdom across disciplines, passions, and all ages

Three more mushroom forages dropping tonight. Stay tuned and stay cool 🍄😎

Thanks .jpd for leading, and thank you Darby, Dakota, Jon, and Susan for sharing their pics from yesterday

04/29/2026

04/28/2026

Education for the win 🌿🍄

We’re so grateful for all the beautiful folks who joined us for our recent events from Somerville Mushroom Fest to Stoneham Mushroom Walk to Gardening for Empathy to Sow and Share in South Carolina

Thank you especially to our teammates Kym, Derived, Colo, James, and Darren as well as our volunteer friends too like Lily, Saj, and Kym’s son

The only things that can make this world a little brighter are your passion and your actions. Never forget the gentle flutters of a butterfly’s wings create ripples of change echoing to eternity. Likewise what you do for community can move mountains too

04/22/2026

Eatin’ good 🍄‍🟫🍅

We’re excited to give away tasty eats and the knowledge to live more free and healthful. Huge thanks to our teammates Alex and Kimmy for making this possible. Join us for an afternoon of food justice served delicious

Fun for all ages and stages 🌱

Big food wants you sick
So be well ❤️🍌

04/21/2026

Eagles, hawks, and owls across our state are bleeding from their eyes, and hundreds of dogs are being hospitalized every year.

Please use this easy petition to call on our state lawmakers to ban these the neurotoxins being pushed on our communities and call for healthier school lunches for kids:

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/healthfulfoodforkids/

04/14/2026

Nature lovers unite 🍄🐝

Join us for a collaborative and fun-filled afternoon to learn how we can protect our pollinators like bees, butterflies, and even mushroom spores

We’re grateful to our teammate Bailey for leading this event and the community of Maynard for hosting

Check out the link in our bio to learn more + RSVP⬅️

04/13/2026

Express yourself 🎨🌿

Did you know studies consistently show that making art in community achieves sustained benefits for health? On some level that may be obvious, and yet some healthcare systems around the world are now prescribing community art classes (!!)

So listen to your doc (🩺), or don’t, and join us for an inspiring afternoon with the oh-so-lovely Brenda to make nature-based art 🖌️

This event is fun for all ages and experience levels
So feel free to bring your kiddos, your aunt Louis, or the homies

You’ll be in company that loves nature and relaxing on a chill Sunday afternoon

Please sign up for this complimentary event at the link in our bio

There you will find all our upcoming events too ⬅️

04/09/2026

Growing plants grows you 🍅🌿

Food is the medicine we take three times a day. And our soil blesses us with the tens of thousands of edible plants that have nourished our bodies and souls for millennia

In tough times, when food is costly and systems fail, the answer is to come together. And that is why we are honored to be working with our teammate Kym in South Carolina to experiment on how we can start and scale gardening community

Kym was inspired to this work by being left a bit of land after a loved one passed, by helping her family’s health with herbs, and learning how our ancestors brought sustainability practices across oceans. Together the vision is to get people growing again.

Even if you’re not in South Carolina, please comment why you care about food justice or simply your favorite veggie or fruit 🌿🍄‍🟫

04/07/2026

Together in Nature 🍄🍄‍🟫

Excited to welcome you to the fantastic world of fungi. Join us to learn how these critters shape all life on earth and protect our air, water, and health

Please sign up for the meeting spot and once you do, being a friend or two. Please show up right on time so you are not left behind 😎

Comfy close-toed shoes
Water
Family and all-age friendly

04/06/2026

Growing community 🍄‍🟫🌿

Join us for an afternoon of connection, complimentary seedlings, and conversation about what urban gardening means for all the critters that share our city as home

Open to any age and experience level. Join as an absolute beginner or share your knowledge as a seasoned Gardner

This event and series will be led by Derived and Lily, passionate organizers installing free seedling depots in Hyde Park and Mattapan

Multi-language friendly 🌞

04/05/2026

Welcoming our new teammates 🌿🍄

From beekeeping workshops to nature therapy to herbalism to healthful cooking to gardening classes, we are scaling up our program so our community has inspiring and impactful ways to feel better

Nature is medicine for community

New events posting tomorrow ✌️🍄‍🟫
Check out our new and improved website at the link in our bio