Join us for the 4th Annual Memphis Mushroom Festival, a joyful gathering celebrating mycology, sustainability, holistic living, and community resilience. This year’s event features educational workshops, hands-on demos, inspiring speakers, live music, local vendors, and so much more!
🍄 Festival Highlights
🤝Meet the MMF 2025 Sponsors
This event is made possible by the generous support of community-minded businesses and organizations. Sponsors receive visibility across social media, print, and onsite promotion, helping us keep the festival free and accessible for everyone.
✨ A huge thank you to our 2025 Sponsors (more to be announced soon!):
With over ten years of expertise and trusted by thousands of clients, Forward Counseling is a multi-specialty mental health practice offering compassionate and holistic care across Nashville, Memphis, and Jackson. We provide a wide range of evidence-based interventions, including individual, couples, and family counseling, life coaching, medication management, and specialized therapies like EMDR and neurofeedback. Our mission is to create a supportive environment, helping clients address concerns and treat mental health illness, with both in-person and telehealth options. FB/IG/LinkedIn/X: Forward Counseling Website: forwardcounseling.com
LeafGuard Brand Gutters is one-piece, seamless, and clog-free gutter system is the perfect solution for homeowners looking to protect their homes from water damage without ever having to clean their gutters again.
Sprouts is committed to providing healthy and wholesome products that make life better, and their stores are filled with fresh produce, natural foods, and a variety of specialty items. Be sure to check them out for all your organic and healthy living needs! 💚
🤝Meet the MMF 2025 Hostess: Jessica Shea, LCSW
Jessica Shea, LCSW, is the proud founder and chaos coordinator of the Memphis Mushroom Festival.
She works in the space of trauma recovery by day and is a plant witch by night.
Jessica started this festival because she believes many of life’s big questions can be answered at the intersection of health and nature — and there’s no better way to learn and connect than through a festival.
When she’s not organizing volunteers or wrangling vendors, Jessica can be found laughing too loudly, dancing in the grass, or convincing strangers that growing mushrooms is easier than they think.
Come say hi to Jessica at the festival — she’ll be the one making sure the music is playing, the booths are buzzing,
and the vibes are just right.
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Take a look at the full schedule here:
🧠 Speaker Sessions and
🌿 Educational Workshops & Demos check here:
Eric Swartz and Nicolas Horner from Event One Media will be creating a deeply immersive experience with their Sound Bath and Yoga Nidra session. Their session will feature live ambient guitar, the soothing tones of sound bowls, and a guided journey to help you find a state of deep relaxation and inner calm.
Yvonne Brinson is a doctor from Rose's Herb House who will be giving an insightful talk on brain health at the festival. Her presentation, "Brain Health: Mushrooms & Herbs for Cognitive Wellness," will cover how mushrooms and herbs can support cognitive function and overall brain health.
Myles Ray of Dancing Bee Farm is leading a guided foraging walk that combines plant identification with a deep exploration of ethnobotany and ecology. During his walk, he will reveal how diverse human cultures have utilized wild plants for food and medicine. Myles's talk also emphasizes our connection to the broader ecosystem, highlighting how foraging links us with the wildlife that shares our habits.
Cameron Heil from Ounce of Hope will be discussing Living Soil: Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) happening right here in Memphis! His talk will cover topics like aquaponics, organic fertilizer production, and cannabis cultivation—all of which are practiced at Ounce of Hope, a local, vertically integrated aquaponic cannabis farm founded in 2019.
Shakita Conklin also known as Turquoise Majesty is the owner and sole proprietor of Turquoise Majesty Intuitive Wellness. She has a background in business management, liberal arts, and educational leadership. She offers a variety of services including tarot readings, numerology, and crystal prescriptions, in addition to her work in sound healing. At the festival, she will be leading a session called "Exploring Plant Consciousness: A Sound Healing Journey," where she will guide participants in exploring the subtle intelligence of plants through sound and presence. This informative session is designed to create a space for connection, curiosity, and calm.
Kate Moore is the founder of LunaTera Apothecary. She will be sharing her powerful personal story and practical insights on how to heal chronic illness by reconnecting with nature. Her talk, "From Sick to Sovereign: Healing Chronic Illness with Nature as Guide," will explore the journey from feeling disempowered to finding sovereignty through natural medicine and intuitive care.
Yuleiny Escobar is a community organizer and founder of Mother Mountain Inc., a nonprofit uplifting marginalized communities through education, health, and environmental justice. She co-founded Desayuno con Libros Memphis and organizes with Shelby County Voter Alliance and Votes for All. An amateur mushroom explorer, psychonaut, and spiritual dancer, Yuleiny weaves activism with ancestral traditions that honor fungi, ceremony, and danza.
Nadia BlackMajesTEA is a mushroom enthusiast who will be sharing her process for crafting medicinal mushroom beverages. Her talk, "From Forest to Cup," will cover everything from ethical harvesting to preparation methods. She'll also highlight the benefits of incorporating medicinal mushrooms into both food and drink, including her own locally sourced shroom chai made with ingredients like lion's mane, morels, oyster, dandelion, and yellow dock.
P.D. Newman is a researcher, published author, and storyteller who will be presenting his findings on the role of entheogenic fungi in ancient cultures. His talk, "Oshtimisk Wajashauki and Miskwedo," will explore the ceremonial practices and sacred use of psychoactive mushrooms among the Hopewell and Mississippian cultures in early North America.
Amy Balentine is a clinical psychologist and the founder of Memphis Mindful Living. At the festival, she will be leading an interactive workshop titled "To Be with Tea: A Mindful Tea Practice". The session will teach participants how to mindfully choose, prepare, and drink tea, focusing on the healing properties of tea plants and the calming nature of drinking tea in a community setting.
Tara Henderson, also known as Grounded Tara, is an educator who will be speaking on how to use plants as medicine. Her talk, "Plants as Medicine," is a practical session that will explore how to integrate plant-based healing into everyday life, including a touch on mushroom allies. Her goal is to help people deepen their connection to the natural world and learn how to use its gifts for their well-being.
Kerry Cutrell is the creator of Find Your Strength, a guided meditation and art program designed to help you reconnect with yourself in a gentle, creative, and empowering way. As a survivor of her own healing journey, she uses practices like meditation, journaling, and art to help others regulate their nervous system and build self-awareness. Her workshop will guide you through an intentional meditation, followed by reflective journaling and a small art project to help you discover a deeper sense of personal strength.
Ron McNutt is both an attorney and a chaplain with a deep, lifelong interest in the history and spiritual use of psychedelics. He has a personal relationship with these substances that spans nearly 50 years. Ron studied religion at Tufts University and later earned his law degree from The University of Georgia School of Law, where he researched the legal protections for the religious use of psychedelics. As a member of the Nashville Psychedelic Society, he will discuss the pathway that psilocybin-containing mushrooms have taken in the last century, which is as mysterious as their effects on consciousness.The Indigenous practices were preserved by the Mazatec people of Mexico, a remnant of what was a widespread practice that suffered terribly from colonialism and persecution. This talk will explore the interesting people who were part of the sharing of information that spread into Western culture and areas like medicine and religion.As legal protection for such natural medicines expands, best practices and ethical standards in various settings can reduce risks and increase acceptance of their beneficial healing and inspiring properties.
Dallas Fuquay is an herbalist and the owner of Katostrophic Kreations & Neshoki Herbal Remedies. During the festival, he will be at the vending area to lead a workshop and share his knowledge on creating your own herbal tinctures.
Kevin Lewis and Ben Winborn are the local mycologists behind Memphis Mushroom Foragers. They will be at the Information & Education Booth in the vending area all day to answer your questions. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned pro, they're ready to chat about all things fungi, from identification to the mysteries of mycelium.
The Memphis Area Beekeepers Association (MABA) is here to share their wisdom about honeybees and beekeeping! Stop by their educational booth to learn how these tiny powerhouses support our ecosystems and find out how you can become a part of protecting the buzz. They'll also have MABA honey for sale from their very own teaching apiary.
🛍 Meet our Vendors & Makers Market here:
