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Wilder Herbertson
My passion is for co-creating experiences, skills, knowledge, and lifestyle amendments that serve our individual and collective re-membering (coming back into an embodied relationship with) and understanding of our connection with, responsibilities toward, and reliance on the ecosystems in which we live. While I grew up eating of the earth (through foraging plants, tending gardens, and the slaughtering and the often elbow-deep process of turning farm animals into sustenance), mushrooms didn’t enter my life until 2018, when I joined the Sonoma Mycological Association (and later, the Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club). Eventually, I couldn’t keep the joy I find through engaging with fungi and the many other connective practices in my life to myself. In 2020, my project Human Becoming came into reality. Through this platform, I invite others into co-creating experiences that support earth-connection and ancestral skills practices. We play through forays, workshops, and retreats that focus on mushroom and plant foraging, fiber arts, food, and much more! I began offering guided plant or mushroom hikes and workshops that have included: salve-making, wild fermentation, mushroom, lichen, and plant dyeing, making cord out of plants, slaughtering support, and more! Feel free to check out my site at humanbecoming.me to get a sense of my offerings, my own history and values, sign up for my quarterly newsletter, or reach out to me. I’m also on Instagram as @humanbecoming.me, on which I post more regular updates and event opportunities.