Catskill Fungi
Vendor
About
Catskill Fungi produces high integrity, triple-extracted health tinctures from mushrooms that are wild-crafted or grown near their family farm in the Catskill Mountains. They enjoy sharing their love of mushrooms on guided mushroom walks, medicinal and cultivation workshops, and fungi retreats.
Catskill Fungi has a foundation of permaculture principles. This means the core of the business is about helping people and improving the planet through their work with mushrooms. They practice sustainable harvesting, leave-no-trace principles, and compassion for the environment. They aim to empower people to grow edible mushrooms as a sustainable source of fresh food, to heal themselves through utilizing health properties of fungi, and to explore the historical uses and present-day innovations of these essential fungi.
Production Practices
Food Safety Certified Mushroom Forager, practicing and teaching ethics of sustainable foraging. Other mushrooms are cultivated outdoors in logs. We create our extracts using some biodynamic techniques.
Was on the advisory panel and created the standards for mushroom cultivation for Certified Naturally Grown.
Location
Kingston, NY
Manager
John Michelotti
Catskill Fungi is founded and cultivated by mycologist John Michelotti and friends. As former President of the Mid-Hudson Mycological Association (MHMA), John co-founded the Catskill Regional Mycoflora Project as well as the Gary Lincoff Memorial Scholarship. He serves as Medicinal Mushroom Committee Chair and is a Poison Control Consultant for the North American Mycological Association. He is an instructor for the Wild Mushroom Food Safety Certification courses in NY. He was chosen by the Catskill Center as a "Steward of the Catskills" for his contribution to the environment. He served on the Mushroom Advisory Panel for Certified Naturally Grown to develop ecological standards in mushroom production. John has presented at the New York Botanical Gardens, Telluride Mushroom Festival, and North American Mycological Association Annual Foray, as well as several colleges and universities. His goal is to educate and inspire people to work with fungi to improve their health, communities, and the environment.
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