Learn together
Make mycology approachable through talks, demonstrations, field-minded observation, and hands-on workshops.
The reason we gather
Our mission
To educate and inspire community interest, involvement and research using mushrooms to increase food sovereignty, nutrition, soil fertility, health and wellness, and environmental remediation through presentations, exhibits, workshops, art and music featuring fungi.
From intention to practice
Make the unseen
part of the conversation.
Build local capacity
Share useful cultivation and food knowledge that supports resilient, community-rooted food systems.
Care for living ground
Explore soil fertility, biodiversity, remediation, and restoration with humility and attention to evidence.
Make room for culture
Bring art, music, food, and wellness into a gathering shaped by place and the people who call Hawaiʻi home.
“The work starts with paying attention—to the land, to one another, and to what fungi can teach us.”
Festival invitation · Haʻikū, 2027
How we hold this work
Place first
Hawaiʻi is not a backdrop. Local ecology, knowledge, and community shape the questions we ask.
Curiosity with care
We distinguish observation from identification, possibility from proof, and cultivation from ecological origin.
Knowledge in common
We welcome researchers, practitioners, educators, growers, artists, and neighbors into the exchange.