All Things Fungi Festival

All Things Fungi Festival All Things Fungi Festival—where art meets science, Dive into the world of Kingdom Fungi, from soil health to mental wellness.
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A celebration of art, culture, and community.

Fiona Heckels and Kaz Goodweather, the dynamic duo known as the Seed Sistas, are clinical herbalists, authors, practicin...
05/06/2026

Fiona Heckels and Kaz Goodweather, the dynamic duo known as the Seed Sistas, are clinical herbalists, authors, practicing witches, and co-founders of Sensory Solutions Herbal Evolution CIC.

With over 20 years of experience, they seamlessly blend herbal medicine with a touch of magic, guiding others on a path of healing, self-discovery, and connection to the plant world. Together, they’ve authored The Sensory Herbal Handbook and Poison Prescriptions, sharing their expertise through books, podcasts, workshops, and international conferences.

Their unique approach, which integrates scientific understanding with intuitive, magical healing, has been featured on BBC Sounds Witch podcast.
Through their social enterprise, they offer accessible herbal education, community support, immersive learning experiences, and exclusive online spaces for herbal enthusiasts, bringing plant wisdom into everyday life.

Discover more at seedsistas.co.uk

April Windle is a naturalist who specialises in lichens - the intricate symbiosis between fungi and algae/ cyanobacteria...
04/06/2026

April Windle is a naturalist who specialises in lichens - the intricate symbiosis between fungi and algae/ cyanobacteria that characterise the world around us. With over 2000 species in Britain and Ireland, April dedicates her life to understanding these complex lifeforms, their fascinating ecology and the variety of habitats in which they occupy. Her unrequited love centres around lichens in Atlantic woodlands, including the oceanic woods in the south and temperate rainforests in the west. She is a freelance lichenologist and Chairs the Education Committee for the British Lichen Society.

Her past employment includes Plantlife International, the Natural History Museum, Exmoor National Park Authority and the RSPB. Whether she is leading guided walks, speaking on stage or featuring on television, April strives to share her discoveries and interest from the field with audiences, to encourage them to see the natural world from a different perspective. April bridges the gap between science and communication, with an ability to translate complex science into narratives that sparks curiosity and a deep, long-lasting interest in the subject. An ultimate aim is to bring a fresh, renewed and vibrant energy into lichenology. At this festival, expect a journey into the microcosm around us...expect to be bewildered, surprised, encapsulated...and expect to never look at the world in the same way again!

04/06/2026

The nights come alive at All Things Fungi Festival. 🍄‍🟫✨

If you’ve joined us before, you’ll know we don’t do things by halves. This year, we’re taking things even further.

On Saturday night, the legendary takes over our Woodland Stage for the first-ever ATFF Masquerade Ball. Step into a world of wild décor, immersive lighting, disco balls, installations, and woodland magic, all set within our stunning natural amphitheatre.

To make sure every beat hits exactly as it should, returns with the mighty Function-One sound system, delivering deep, rich frequencies you won’t just hear, you’ll feel. 🔈

Dress to impress, don your mask, and lose yourself in the atmosphere as we dance beneath the trees until late.

One night. One woodland. One unforgettable masquerade.

See you in the woods. 🌙🍄🪩

Colin Unsworth - is a foraging teacher and creative practitioner who explores the relationship between wild food, embod...
03/06/2026

Colin Unsworth - is a foraging teacher and creative practitioner who explores the relationship between wild food, embodiment, and ecological connection.

His “Embodied Foraging” sessions invite participants to engage with habitats by tuning into nature through the senses and feelings rather than focusing only on identification and harvesting. Influenced by performance and walking as a methodological practice, these sessions explore how foraging can become an experience of reconnection rather than simply extraction.

Colin has taught foraging across the UK, working with all ages and backgrounds. His approach is shaped by an interest in how people form relationships with nature, food, each other, and their own bodies, particularly considering the context of modern disconnection from ecology, one another and even from ourselves. Colin has recently completed a Master’s degree in Theatre for Social, Political and Environmental Change, and his research was focused on how foraging performs for personal and ecological repair. Alongside Colin is his partner, Sadie Tann. Her recent research in wildlife conservation focused on modelling fungi distribution in relation to climate change.Whether it is foraging for fungi or exploring wild ingredients and gin making, Col & Sadies sessions encourage connection and curiosity, attentiveness, and an opportunity to rethink what it means to know nature.

Damon Tighe is a naturalist and biotechnology professional in California. He worked on the first draft of the human geno...
02/06/2026

Damon Tighe is a naturalist and biotechnology professional in California. He worked on the first draft of the human genome and has been one of the main field collectors for the California Fungal Diversity Survey which aims to make a fungarium of modern collections all backed by DNA sequencing. As a big proponent of community science as a way to democratize and demystify the scientific process, he has made over 100K observations in Naturalist with 1,500 of them being fungi with DNA barcode data. He is a huge believer that we can all benefit by slowing down and noticing the natural world right around us, and community science often gives an excuse to do this while giving valuable data to make decisions from about how we manage land, where we put our effort as individuals and groups to make the world around us something we desire. As a constant tinkerer he’s well versed in biochar, compost, garden urine, small scale plant breeding, culturing wild fungi, and biofluorescence.

31/05/2026

We could tell you how special it is…

But we’d rather let our community do the talking 🍄‍🟫❤️

See you in the woods x



Ferne creative - illustrated gifts and products inspired by both favourite and underappreciated British wildlife. Their ...
30/05/2026

Ferne creative - illustrated gifts and products inspired by both favourite and underappreciated British wildlife. Their collection includes art prints, greeting cards, colouring books, suncatchers, stickers, enamel pins, keyrings, tea towels, and more, each celebrating the beauty and diversity of Britain’s native species.

Every illustration is drawn by the artist, with all packaging thoughtfully designed in-house. The products are professionally manufactured to ensure a high-quality finish, making them perfect for wildlife lovers, nature enthusiasts, and thoughtful gifting.

Leyla Ustunkaya is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the fascinating forms and hidden networks of the fungal world. ...
28/05/2026

Leyla Ustunkaya is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the fascinating forms and hidden networks of the fungal world. Through painting, papier-mâché, and ceramics, she studies fungal structures and translates them into expressive, organic visual languages. Known for her improvisational live painting - often performed alongside live jazz — Leyla works by listening, absorbing, and responding to her surroundings.

At the All Things Fungi Festival, she will immerse herself in the atmosphere of the walks, talks, landscapes, and community. These impressions will be gathered and transformed into a series of spontaneous live painting sessions, where observation, intuition, and nature guide the process. Each piece will emerge in the moment - a visual response to the energy, sounds, and spirit of the festival.

Matt is an excitable conservation mycologist and Senior Specialist for Fungi at Natural England.Passionate about educati...
27/05/2026

Matt is an excitable conservation mycologist and Senior Specialist for Fungi at Natural England.

Passionate about education, he sits on the Education and Outreach Committee of the BMS as Education champion.

His PhD was in the ecology and conservation of heart-rot ecology from Cardiff University and he is a Churchill Fellow for research on international approaches to fungal conservation. He is raising two mini-mycologists who occasionally permit him the time to foray.

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