The Chaotic Forager
Gabrielle Cerberville, aka @chaoticforager or "the Internet's Mushroom Auntie," is a forager, mycologist, composer, and outdoor educator. Just a few of her current projects include a book, a TV series, and a Ph.D at the University of Virginia in music composition and computer technologies. You can find her at www.chaoticforager.com, or on all socials as @chaoticforager.
The Wild Dryad
Shane Alden is a self-taught illustrator, botanist, and educator who has been featured on the Chicago Tribune, the Wild Edible World Podcast, and more. Shane has traveled to several countries and cities for his research on plants and ecology. He believes that creating a healthy environment through hands-on learning and research can aid anyone who is willing to learn about the natural world around them. You can find Shane at www.thewilddryad.com or on all socials as @the_wild_dryad.
Max McCormick is an educator and creator currently residing in Cincinnati, Ohio. Former forestry technician and certified arborist, Max is a giant tree nerd, avid forager and wildcrafter, home-herbalist, and all-around plant and nature enthusiast. They teach a number of different workshops and classes including Tree Identification, Edible and Medicinal Plant identification, Wildcrafting, Foraging, and Home-Herbalism, among others. Max is also certified in permaculture design, and they are a maker, artist and organizer. Their e-mail is Mmccormick@intothetrees.green, or you can find them on instagram @megamaxxoxo
Liz is an herbalist, a forager and is certified in teaching Yoga to both kids and adults. Liz teaches in several studios and schools throughout Cincinnati and Northern KY and loves teaching Yoga to students of all ages and levels. Outside of Yoga, Liz is in the middle of a one year project of not buying food from grocery stores. Instead Liz eats food grown by local farmers, by herself or food that she has foraged and is known as the Grocery-Free Yogi. Learn more at https://www.lizvirgo.com/
Cole Perry has been in youth work for 20 years, mostly outdoor ed but currently teaching high school Spanish at Clark Montessori. Cole loves learning and sharing what they know about our other-than-human relatives, mostly plants and mushrooms. Catch Cole talking about how to identify things in the woods that people can eat. Their favorites include mayapples, persimmons, and all of our native Allium species.
Ellil Rose has knowledge through 24 years of peer and self education. Currently a nature based home childcare provider teaching children about seasons, locality, the joy and importance of learning a specific forest through all seasons, edible/medicinal wild things and weeds, and how to not leave a trace. She started on this journey when she was a student/single parent on welfare and had a distrust in doctors to care for her kiddo in whole ways. She was gifted a book on home healthcare for minor things and, learned shortly after that many of the medicines were abundant as urban weeds, things easy to plant, and wild “invasives”. That was the starting point. And, now…. she likes getting into crafts like rope making and hide tanning, too! This winter she'll be making my her shoes out of a hide she tanned herself.
Meghan Henshaw has spent many years studying the plethora of ways in which medicinal plants are woven into the fabric of everyday life. This has led her all over the United States and abroad where she has worn many hats as a field researcher, wildcrafter, herbalist, and educator. Her medicinal plant studies began with an internship with a large herb company twenty years ago and was followed by formal botanical study in herbal science and ethnobotany. Meghan currently has a private practice in Cincinnati and sees clients for one on one herbal support and bodywork. As Ocotillo Herbals, she teaches herbal classes throughout the Midwest and crafts a line of herbal products which emphasize bioregional plants using herbs she grows in a community garden in the city. Visit ocotilloherbals.com to learn more.
Lindsey Coyne is an herbalist, holistic health educator and forager in central Iowa with a Bachelor's degree in human nutrition and dietetics from SIUC. She began learning herbal medicine over 20 years ago by treating herself for common ailments. She has had a strong focus on foraging local edibles and medicinal plants for the last 10 years. As a sustainable forager, she spends time in nature, waiting for the plants to be at their optimal potency, using only those that are prolific in any given season.