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"Navigating Functional Mushrooms: Part Two" with Erin Masako Wilkins and Ryath Fujita Beauchene

PLEASE JOIN US IN WELCOMING Erin Masako Wilkins and Ryath Fujita Beauchene ON JULY 24tH, 2025 AT 4PM PT/5PM MT/6PM CT/7PM ET

Please join us for a dynamic presentation about the multitudinous properties of mushrooms! This offering is a follow-up to the previously featured "Navigating Functional Mushrooms," and this presentation will be co-facilitated by Erin Masako Wilkins and Ryath Fujita Beauchene. Together, they will cover 9 important mushroom species prominent in Traditional Chinese Medicine and the medicinal mushroom research community with time for questions, ponderings, and discussion about these revered organisms. Erin will cover some of the vocabulary used to discuss herbs in the TCM approach and highlight the mushrooms' energetics, indications and clinical or formulaic uses, while Ryath will weave in some of the biomedical (so-called "Western") research, chemistry and medicine-making practices for those interested in purchasing or making their own medicines.

Erin Masako Wilkins is an Asian American herbalist, acupuncturist and educator who has spent years treating patients and teaching workshops on herbal healing. Her work is rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine and draws from ancestral healing traditions to empower others in restoring health and preventing illness. Her book, Asian American Herbalism: Traditional and Modern Healing Practices for Everyday Wellness, bridges North American folk herbalism and traditional Chinese medicine. Remarkably, Erin is one of the first AAPI authors to write on this subject for a general audience, approaching the work from a deeply personal place. She is the founder of Herb Folk, a farm-to-cup tea line, and she offers virtual classes and health consultations through the Asian American Herbalism School. To connect with Erin, visit HerbFolkShop.com or follow her on Instagram @herbfolkmedicine.

PHOTO COURTESY OF ERIN MASAKO WILKINS

PHOTO COURTESY OF RYATH FUJITA BEAUCHENE

Ryath Fujita Beauchene is a Californian mycological educator and the Vice President of the Sonoma County Mycological Association. Ryath has been a mushroom forager, cultivator, and researcher for sixteen years and teaches about fungal ecology, ethnomycology, mushroom identification & cultivation, fungalism, and the functional mushroom industry. He is a co-steward of both Moon Fruit Mushroom Farm and Symbiiotica as well as an estate manager and horticulturist with particular interests in adaptogens, cooking, semantics, symbiosis and how ecosystem health includes human health. Ryath also makes custom formulations for private clients with herbs and mushrooms and you can find him on Instagram @funga.dragon. It is Ryath's hope that by showing people the valuable potency of natural medicines we may become more devoted and reciprocal in our relationships to our planet's diverse ecologies and peoples.

Earlier Event: April 24
"Growing Asian Herbs via Direct Sow, Succession Planting, and Cuttings" with Denise Cusack

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