Mycoevolve

05/19/2026

Happening soon, hope you can join!

05/19/2026

Highly recommend watching this stellar talk; full of so much information and wide angle perspective

🎤 Guest Speaker: Christian Schwartz🗓️ Date: March 10, 2026⏰ Time: 7 p.m. CST💚 Cost: Free with Registration (Donations Accepted)By now, almost everyone's h...

05/13/2026

Grateful our former intern was show-cased doing research in Mycoevolve's restoration sites via UVM Four undergraduate research grant at Shelburne Farms. She was focused on plants biodiversity. Other objectives of the project include: phosphorus mitigation (via phyto remediation), pollinator habitat, rematriation, and ecoliteracy as part of socio- ecological reconciliation.

Rooted in Restoration https://share.google/Sd8eZUwqh8b5GOB56

We are offering tours and workshops this last year of the project so please reach out if interested for your class, team, or crew.

Rooted in Restoration FSRI Undergrad Research Fellow Spent Summer Advancing Ecological Resilience Environment Science & Technology Share October 1, 2025 By Colleen Goodhue Amid buzzing pollinators and lush riparian buffers, Ruth Stumpfoll spent the summer advancing ecological preservation and land s...

05/11/2026

Shout out to Emilie Inoue and her team who organized the 2nd Annual VT Introduced Species Collaborative Gathering. It was refreshing to experience relatively decolonial framing that acknowledges the power of language and terms we use which can create more separation, violence, and pain in the world. When we change the language we can create more conection, peace, and healing in the world. Praises to the VTAgency of Agriculture for Food and Markets and UVM Extension Forest Parks and Recreation for updating outdated terms and systems. There are so many places this needs to be done! 'Invasives' becomes 'Introduced Species' and 'Eliminate Noxious Weeds' becomes 'Slow the Spread.'

It was also wonderful to learn from many colleagues about crucial projects working with these ecosystem placeholders through innovative strategies and to share about techniques and successes we have applied in our restoration projects. A few highights include: learning about: black ash seed collecting and basket making by Abenaki, neighborhoods adopting roads to monitor/manage introduced species, ethically rewilding state lands for diversity, inspecting one's car undersides for eggs when travelling from southern states back into VT (important so we do not become vectors!), discussing plant palettes based on adjacent natural communities, working with ecotypes as often as possible to preserve local genetic diversity, process based restoration strategies that involve minimal interference and maximum autogenic regeneration and many others. Grateful for a hopeful gathering during these challenging times.
Did I mention the word 'humility' was mentioned several times by several of us?

Thank you!

05/07/2026

Burlingtonian Vermonters on Unceded Abenaki Territory, did you know there is a superfund/brownfield complex in town that Friends of the Barge Canal is working to conserve so it cannot be (conventionally remediated aka: scoop/dump/developed) and the legacy of the petrochemical industry can begin to heal through (already in process) natural attenuation, followed by further assessment, site specific remediation, active restoration, and monitoring? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hc8LM373Gc

To learn more about preliminary ecological research conducted here by Mycoevolve's community branch Mycolab, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57q7EEaZuI0
To learn more about restoration and education following up on this: https://www.mycoevolve.net/pine-street-barge-canal.html
To read a published article about this work by a recent UVM graduate: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2514848626141962077/25148486261419620

Contaminated landscapes are incommensurable and have complex histories. If not visibly obscured by redevelopment, remediation, or even by ecological growth and ...

05/05/2026

Spring MycoEvolve Newsletter 2026 - https://mailchi.mp/e9775ad9208d/rdfl390ubr

04/29/2026

We are open for the season! If interested, please reach out and spread the word!

04/27/2026

Fun day teaching at our myco- phyto remediation restoration site for UVM's 'Soil, water, pollution Bioremediation' class where the seed of this seven year research project was planted as a former student.

Last field season of this project just began so please reach out if you or your team, class... would like to be involved. Many opportunities!

03/30/2026

Congratulations Abby Golitz on this article that you and Dr. Bindu Panikkar recently published highlighting the conundrums in how 'polluted' lands are understood, managed, and perceived. Thanks to Mycoevolve's Mycolab team, Friends of the Barge Canal, Grassroots Fund, Abenaki allies, and so many community members, including our beyond human kin (naturally attenuating the site!) who worked on this site, a classic case study. Have a look!

Contaminated landscapes are incommensurable and have complex histories. If not visibly obscured by redevelopment, remediation, or even by ecological growth and ...

03/20/2026

Hey naturalists, check out this conference. This year there will be two sessions on ecological restoration:

03/16/2026

Homeschool families in VT, see below about this spring's program. Please share your preferences in the link below this week so we can design the program to meet your needs!! And spread the word to any families that may be interested! Thank you.

Earth Repair Homeschool. If interested in joining our spring program (May/June) please reach out. Thank you!
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We provide robust, accessible science education to nurture earth repair understanding, ecological restoration lens honing, and practical skill development.

Curriculum incorporates nature awareness, earth science, biology, botany, chemistry, natural history, mycology, art, writing, math, literature, and sociology, with orientation towards justice and equity. Each class involves a gratitude circle, nature awareness games and core routines, student-centered learning activities offering entry ways for students to grapple with and incorporate foundational concepts into their inherent knowing, and reflective debriefs. Homework to practice, expand upon and deepen content integration is offered each class and reviewed the following class.

Images on the right: from fall 2025 program in different homesteads, urban wilds, farms, & ecosystems in which students engaged with the natural world, each other, and facilitated curriculum. The last day, they taught their families and community, integrating all they learned in student-led presentations.
Read More here: https://www.mycoevolve.net/education.html