Foraging for Fungi – Meeting Mushrooms in Berlin and Brandenburg [in English]

Welcome to a day of guided foraging for fungi — a fun day in the forest for exploration, curiosity, connection to our local surroundings, and of course lots of fungi facts.

We'll look at and discover different mushrooms, talk about ethical foraging and fungi life cycles, and how to prepare mushrooms for food and medicine safely.

The group is kept to a small size, a maximum of 10 participants, in order to have plenty of time for questions, noticing, and being able to see clearly what is being shown.

How the day will go:

travel to location by train

introduction to fungi, insight into the ecosystem

tea and a moment to connect to the landscape and slow down

collecting fungi and identifying them together

continued exploration of the landscape

final inspection of baskets and ideas on how to prepare the mushrooms for food or medicine

What to bring

curiosity

lunch or snacks, water

outdoor clothes, good shoes

your own journal and pen if you want to take notes

a knife, a basket, maybe some paper bags to separate particular fungi

make sure to give yourself 1-2 hours for washing and preparing the mushrooms after the event or the day after in order to guarantee food safety (if we get lucky that day!)

Olivia Sayward is a Berlin-based healing practitioner, artist, and an eternal student of herbalism and mycology... devoted to helping people reconnect with their intuition, their bodies, and the intelligence of nature. Olivia shares writing, illustration and collage on her Substack (oliviasayward.substack.com), where she explores themes around expanded states, creativity, the imagination, and the medicine of plants and fungi.

Olivia is currently in training as a certified PilzCoach (fungi coach) with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mykologie (German mycological society).

You can optionally get a fungi tshirt! 40+ illustrations of fungi and their Latin names. Thick organic cotton, oversized look. S, M, L (wearing S in photo - normally wearing S)