Mycoevolve

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We are listening for where to land, root, and tend, in service to watershed Pitawabagok (as Abenaki call it: 'The Lake Between,') known by settlers as Lake Champlain. Here we aim to homestead, grow a harmonious nesting family, nurture medicinal & pollinator gardens, practice original living skills, tend a living classroom, offer internships in the rising field of socio-ecological reconciliation, nurture creative collaborations, tend a living nursery for native flora, continue myco-phytoremediation research while supporting Abenaki rematriation and fostering ecoliteracy for marginalized communities.

We are looking to tend and live with land (2-10 aces) < 70 miles of Burlington with:
Old forests, Flowing water , Reasonably priced, Healthy ecosystems, South and West facing areas, Springs, Connected to wildlife corridor, Near a bus line that can carry bicycles, Away from highway and shooting range sounds

Our core values are rooted in Earth repair community & bioregional family in alignment with shared practices in: conscious communication, radical love, trauma informed action, evolving mindfulness practices

Here is our land link profile: https://vermontlandlink.org/find-farmer/mycoevolve

A community bone vision: https://www.mycoevolve.net/community.html
Please reach out if this seems resonant or you know of any leads!! Thank you.

Community ​We are listening for where we are supposed to land, root, and tend, in service to watershed Pitawabagok (as Abenaki call it: 'The Lake Between,') known by settlers as Lake Champlain. ​Here we...

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Praises to the VTAgency of Agriculture for Food and Markets and UVM Extension Forest Parks and Recreation for updating outdated terms and systems.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!

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

Socializing with contaminated wastelands: Pluralistic toxic worldings at the Pine Street Barge Canal Brownfield in Burlington, Vermont - Abigail Golitz, Bindu Panikkar, 2026 Contaminated landscapes are incommensurable and have complex histories. If not visibly obscured by redevelopment, remediation, or even by ecological growth and ...

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