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World cuisine, poetry, music & mushrooms.
Globetrotting Oregon Native.
Mushroom Chef: @the_fungivore;
@northamericanmyco culinary member.
Oaxaca, MEX

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Orchids, Biodiversity, Mayan Ruins and Jungle, Cacao and Coffee!

April 5-13th, 2027

Announcing our second non-mushroom based trip! After a rousing success for our inaugural Orchid viewing adventure in April of 2026, we’ve been exploring the Mayan ruin-filled Jungles of Chiapas to offer our second orchid adventure in Southern Mexico!

And what we have found there is nothing short of breathtaking! With daily swimming, stunning blue water and waterfalls, orchids, cacao, caves,ancient mayan ruins and modern mayans, even a quick trip into Guatamala, this is a trip we are so excited to share with you!

We are offering a $200 Early Bird Discount for anyone who signs up before October 5th, 2026! Don’t miss out on this epic first time adventure in an area of Chiapas absolutely infused with jungle magic.

April 5-13, 2027: Wild Orchids of Chiapas, Mexico: This is NOT a foraging trip! This adventure is an exploration of one of the most biodiverse regions ON EARTH. What to expect: pine jungles, endless waterfalls, swimming, cacao farms, coffee production, local & unique Mayan cuisine, hearing the languages of the area, meeting the artisans, hike through true cloud forest, get a tour of two of the largest collections of orchids in North America, and of course, wild orchid viewing from 300m-2300m elevation, all guided by our fabulous orchid and biodiversity experts!

#orchids #ecotourism #jungle #adventure #chiapas taken in Lagos de Montebello by @the_fungivore

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Have you seen the first 5 episodes of COMMON SIDE EFFECTS yet?!

Let me give an overview, without spoiling it: A familiar character (basically @paulstamets in an alternate universe) finds a long sought-after mushroom that no one actually believed was real with the power to heal everything… including the planet…

So far, in this universe, no one has discovered a myco-panacea for ALL ailments, though there is a reason the Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum, et al) is known as “the mushroom of immortality” and whose Hanzi mean “shaman praying for rain.” Mushroom medicine has barely even begun to emerge on the world stage.

But here in Souther Mexico, the use of mushrooms as medicine is as natural as the forest itself. Utilizing what is available and abundant is both obvious and a long-developed natural wisdom. Our trips are filling up, so don’t wait! Take a break from@the madness and join us this summer to dive into mushroom medicine, forest activism and learn and differentiate way of being!

So what are you waiting for?! Watch Common Side Effects (@commonsideeffectshq), get excited about mushroom medicine, and then hop on our trips with some of the most knowledgeable mushroom communities on earth this summer!!

#fungi #commonsideeffects #adultswim #indigenous #traditionalmushroomknowledge #medicinalmushrooms #mushroomswillsavetheworld #ediblemushrooms taken in Oaxaca by @the_fungivore

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4 days ago

Just over a week ago, we took our MycoChiapas group up to Huitepec, the ancient water volcano that towers above the Chiapas highlands, to explore the fungi there. Though we didn’t leave with a ton of any one thing, we didn’t manage to pull 133 species out of the duff and dirt in our 4 hour exploration! Check out the last two photos for a teaser of what we found (the formatting cut off some of the image, sorry!!).

Today, we head back up the mountain with our MyColores mushroom dye group! I cannot wait to see what has changed, what has grown, and what else we find with our guide and mycologist Ezequiel Cruz, Msc. to see what we find just a little over a week of rain later!! Stay tuned!

#mexico #mushroom #foraging #adventure #chiapas taken in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas by @the_fungivore

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5 days ago

We kicked off our first MyColores in Chiapas last night with an epic group of ladies, and a couple of Mushroom(dye)-adjacent partners with one of the best meals in the city: Tarumba (@tarumba.mx) and a simply gorgeous and delicious display of traditional ingredients reimagined, from hard-shell duck tacos to an over-the-top local cheese plate, cocktails with mumo and zucú (otherwise known as Hoja Santa and Chicatanaas!), delicious fish dishes at 7200ft elevation… wow.🤩

We are so excited to be hosting Alissa Allen for her 5th year in a row in Mexico to explore the mycopigments of chiapas (@mycopigments).

Life is better when it is delicious AND colorful! #mexico #mushroom #foraging #adventure #chiapas taken in Sombra Del Agua by @the_fungivore

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6 days ago

The Fungivore just wrapped up our MycoChiapas event with one of the best groups ever! What an amazing experience. And we could not have done it without our local partner Fungaria (@_fungaria_) and astounding mycologist Ezequiel Cruz (@_.ezequielcruz._ )! Laying out the species we’d found on a table to talk about each of our finds, Ezequiel created these digital images with the names of our finds (to the best of his up-to-date knowledge) and wow.

May I present the first of 6 days of foraging in this way, and the day we collected both the least specimens, but also had the most unique day, with one single overlapping species from the Nagaño forests of Tuxtla Gutiérrez!

#mexico #mushroom #foraging #adventure #chiapas taken in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas by @the_fungivore

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8 days ago

The rains were late to southern Mexico. September was quite bereft of mushrooms. But we are back, baby! The torrential downpours of late September and early October have brought a bounty of beautiful mushrooms. We have been piloting our incredible MycoChiapas adventure and somehow are just two days from@the finish line, already! Here are some teaser shots while I organize the massive volume of photos of people and mushrooms and funny bugs.

#mexico #mushroom #foraging #adventure #chiapas taken in Chiapas, Mexico by @the_fungivore

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12 days ago

Woooo!! Huge milestone! We’ve lived in Mexico now for 4.5 years. 4 years as temporary residents, and just this morning we received our permanent residency ID cards!

Tomorrow is Mexico’s Independence Day, September 16th! Tonight, there is celebration afoot..!

¡Gracias, México!
¡Viva México!

#indepenciademéxico🇲🇽 taken in Mexico by @the_fungivore

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a month ago

Foraging with the Akha Hill Tribe and making lunch out of bamboo jelly in the rain. One of the many highlights from @the_fungivore MycoThai trip.

Special thanks to Mr. Kong and the community for hosting us. We all had a lot of fun together!

#thailand #foraging #adventuretravel taken in Northern Thailand by @the_fungivore

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Hokkaido!!!

That was an absolutely grueling 27 hours of travel (after 12 hours of scrambling to figure out what went wrong… most of it in Bangkok airport) lounges after Typhoon Saudel cancelled a ton of flights in SE Asia and delayed ours by 13 hours…

But we did it! We can confidently say we know how to navigate the Osaka Airport (and a portion of the city); and how to get bag weights right, store luggage in Osaka International, and buy cheap coffee with only coins from a vending machine because Japan…

Zackbarely slept because “big guy in a tiny plane” … with lots of Typhoon inspired turbulence and What the doing hell is this black box under his seat taking all of his meager legroom (last photo)… no! Engineers should have to ride on the planes they design. What the actual flock is this garbage version of reality?

But anyway, we made it! We rented a car! We are in Otaru! We ate Crab Miso and delicious Ahi Sashimi, drank our fill of sake and beer (Sapporo of course). And now somehow still awake (it’s 10:51pm on August 26th, for us!) with a bottle of delicious sake from the local bottle shop and our cute hotel room where we get our own beds abs the toilet talks to you and the shower water is instantly hot…

Big things coming. I still owe y’all a bunch of Thailand posts because that adventure was one for the books! But in the meantime… watashitachiwa nihongo sucochi wakarimas.

#thefungivore #travel #mushrooms #ideatthat #getit taken in Otaru Canal Hokkaido,小樽運河おたるうんが by @the_fungivore

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2 months ago

Dang Chiang Mai. That was too quick a visit, and yet we managed to do and see so much (and EAT so much!!) is such a short time.

It is wild to have such glorious feelings of home in a foreign country, and to miss it so much already:

We are coming back!! See you soon!

#thailand #mushroom #foraging #adventure #chiangmai taken in Chiang Mai, Thailand by @the_fungivore

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2 months ago

MycoThailand: Chiang Mai - Another jungle hike, another collection of wild fungal diversity. Not all the pictures are perfect, excuse my absolutely soaking phone and hands… so much moistness… good lord it’s wet here. lol. And this is not all the pictures, so ask if you see something that sparks your curiosity. We certainly did!!

Special thanks to @ichiangdao for a fantastic adventure and hike and for his enthusiasm, as well as his amazing guides from the community, and their knowledge of edible mushrooms. Just awesome!

I promise there are more in depth posts coming, but for now, here are some nice mushrooms to look at.

#thailand #mushroom #foraging #adventure #chiangmai taken in Chiang Mai, Thailand by @the_fungivore

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