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Fund the documentation, not the hype
Serious documentation costs money: fieldwork, translation, licensing, and time. MushroomTribes is a nonprofit documentation project of The Community Garden Foundation, designed so that the way it earns can never corrupt what it records.
Donate
The simplest way to help is a direct donation to The Community Garden Foundation, the nonprofit behind MushroomTribes. Every contribution goes to documentation and preservation — fieldwork, translation, and licensing — especially for endangered and newly documented traditions.
Other ways to sustain the work
Membership
A recurring membership that funds new documentation, fieldwork partnerships, and translation. Members receive premium visual essays and early access to new entries.
In developmentPremium visual essays
Long-form illustrated essays for members, going deeper into single traditions, debates, and archives than the open pages allow.
In developmentEthical documentary licensing
Licensing of original documentary material and maps to museums, universities, broadcasters, and publishers, under terms that respect the communities involved.
In developmentCourses & lectures
Educational courses on ethnomycology and cultural history, plus lectures and institutional partnerships with universities and museums.
In developmentCommunity partnerships
Where a community wishes it, we can help sustain and share their own work — connecting their ceremonies, teaching, and craft with respectful audiences and funding, on their terms and to their benefit. Any such partnership is led by the community, not brokered over their heads.
In developmentThese are being built. Nothing here is a live checkout yet — we would rather show the honest model than fake a shop. Register interest through the newsletter below and you will hear when each opens.
No mushroom gummies, spores, cultivation equipment, or dosage tools; no supplements making unsupported medical claims; and no deceptive psychedelic products. We will not broker a community's ceremony behind its back or profit from it without its consent — but partnering with a community to support and sustain its own work is welcome. Advertising, if ever used, will be minimal and clearly separated from editorial content.