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Alissa Allen

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Alissa Allen got her start in the Pacific Northwest and has been sharing her passion for fungi for over 20 years.

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First foray day of MyColores with @the_fungivore and what a colorful day filled with dyers corts and cat cuddles. The walk was beautiful with a nourishing lunch and detailed fungi table talk with Ezequiel (@_fungaria_) and Alissa (@mycopigments) to kick off our week of mushroom foraging and natural dyeing in Chiapas. I can’t wait to see the rainbow we will make later this week!!! taken in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas by @mycopigments

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So many species!! We had a beautiful day in the forest with zero rain. Thanks to our mycologist Ezekiel for sharing his wealth of knowledge and to everyone else for collecting with enthusiasm. Can't wait to do it again in another place tomorrow! by @mycopigments

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MyColores first day kicked off with a walking tour of San Cristobal to get our footing for a week in this beautiful town. One of many highlights was a special visit with Sergio Castro and his private museum of regional dress and artifacts - a beautiful introduction to the diversity of Mayan culture, language and dress here in Chiapas. At 88, every visit with Sergio is a window into a different world and also support his work to treat local burn victims.

Enjoy this beautiful compilation from the group’s favorite photos - the art, architecture, animals, and all!! Tomorrow we are off to the forest for our first day of foraging for dye mushrooms to make our rainbow later this week! Mushlove! taken in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas by @mycopigments

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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 @mycopigments

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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 @mycopigments

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Thank you Mary Fisher at Cultus Bay Gardens for for offering a warm and welcoming space for this year's Mycopigments workshop. The fall colors and apple pie offered the perfect cozy backdrop for our dive into mushrooms and lichens for color. Can't wait to do it again! 💗🍄🍂🍁🍂🍄💗 by @mycopigments

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There're still a couple of spots in the last two workshops of the year! Follow the links to read more and register! See you on Whidbey Island or in Chiapas! 🍄🌈💖 by @mycopigments

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Join us October 11-19 in the beautiful mountain town of San Cristobal de Las Casas, in Chiapas Mexico. Zack @the_fungivore and Kim @travelingtradersbazaar have collaborated with local artisans and guides to share with us the beauty of the region. We will be staying in a stunning hotel and have 3 days of foraging in the montane forests of the Mayan Highlands and two days of dye exploration. While admiring the natural beauty and biodiversity of the habitat, we'll be honing in on a regional rainbow of foraged color. We'll be collecting dye favorites from the genus Cortinarius and Phellodon as we build our palette. These trips are truly once in a lifetime and there are only a couple of spots left. Grab a friend and join us today! Please follow the link in my bio to read the details from @the_fungivore . by @mycopigments

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Fall is in the air and dye mushrooms are emerging! Join me, for a two-day workshop September 19th - 20th at Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture in Sisters, Oregon exploring the full spectrum of color found in fungi in the mountains of Central Oregon. Link in bio 🍄🌈💗 by @mycopigments

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Day 6: Part 2 - The Micro-Mico-Fest

MyComida: Rupestre, always our first Myco adventure of the year, has proven itself to be the model for these efforts, culminating now for its 4th year in our MicroMicoFest, our small mushroom festival that we put on in Spanish for our host community, complete with mushroom cooking and mushroom dyeing demos, a library of mycology books in Spanish out for perusal (it is out all three days we are there), and a mushroom ID table where El Carrizal can take in the edible, medicinal, toxic, and dye mushrooms of the forests in which they so graciously allow us to frolick. The feedback we receive each year is always enthusiastic.

This year, Chef Chad Hyatt made a fantastic paella pan Spanish seafood rice, but with shrimp Russula and lobster mushrooms; Zack made a cured lemon Bolognese with porcini, macrolepiota and the edible skirted Cort (C. caperatus). Sorry… what recipes?

Meanwhile, despite our focus being primarily on the edibles of the early season, Kim was able to run dye baths for 7 mushrooms (and Usnea) each, changed the color with pH, and probably blew the most minds at the faire with the sheer range of color she pulled from our few days of foraging. Just amazing. Interested? There’s still space on MyColores in Chiapas!

And wouldn’t that be easy if that were the end, but our final day with our hosts Delila, her father Abraham and husband/ barbacoa maestra Ramon (and their adult kids Kimberly and Ramon, Jr., of course!) is the culmination of a temporary family and a shared meal that acts more as a ceremony than simply eating. What a surprise to feel at home so far from where we were raised. We will miss this place until next time!

If any one part of this adventure sounds like your speed, get on the Trip list for 2027 in the bio-link or at thefungivore.com!

#oaxaca #mushroom #foraging #Adventure #micofest taken in El Carrizal, Oaxaca by @mycopigments

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