Bay Staters for Natural Medicine

Bay Staters for Natural Medicine Grassroots volunteers educating about ways to live more healthfully and naturally · Mushroom forages, feasts, and fests 🍄🌿

09/03/2026

This Sunday! 🌿👕🌎

Join us to swap clothes, craft with bioplastics, and enjoy interactive art and presentations

Thank you to Shark Louise Lao (Shark) for this informative look at the life cycle of clothes 🦈

1 City Hall Square, Boston 🏢
By Green Line Station
This Sunday, September 6th, 12-7pm
Bring up to five quality items to give
Bring one item for a creative repair 🧵🪡
Bring other items for screen printing and dying

No charge community event ✌️🌿🌎

Mushlove 🌿🍄We’re excited to welcome you to our upcoming walks in Andover, Worcester, and Melrose as well as a collaborat...
08/31/2026

Mushlove 🌿🍄

We’re excited to welcome you to our upcoming walks in Andover, Worcester, and Melrose as well as a collaborative class with our fellow nonprofit, the Cambridge Center for Adult Education

There’s nothing better than getting out in nature with others humbled by the beauty and complexity of our planet.

Special shout out to Darren Massachusetts Mushroom Forager and Christine Christine Sparks for leading these upcoming walks.

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Bay Staters for Creative Well-Being is a New England based nonprofit group and the most prolific host of mushroom walks in Massachusetts

If you’re looking for fun and free events in the Boston area, Massachusetts, or New Hampshire, check their regularly updated events page and social media

A Livable Future 🌎👕We’re excited to announce our schedule, our team, our partners, our artists, and our presenters for R...
08/28/2026

A Livable Future 🌎👕

We’re excited to announce our schedule, our team, our partners, our artists, and our presenters for Rethread Boston!

Sunday, September 6. 12-7pm
Boston City Hall Plaza
By Government Center 🚊

No charge: Community event 🌿✌️🎨

Special thanks to our festival directors Colomba Colomba Klenner James James Paul Davis the City of Boston Arts and Culture team including Billy Dean and Jamaal City of Boston Arts & Culture our partners ñ press legacylattecafe
The Sleazy Vegan Food Truck
Groovy Thrifty and our photographer Kelly Cianflone

And all of our teammates including Louise Lao (Shark) Melissa Miceli Tim Owen Hadassah Fiorini Juliette Espinoza (JAEJ) sew_obsessed_ abby Holly Haze✨ RYT 200hr

Fun with Impact 🍄🌿We’re excited to announce that we’ve made significant progress in decriminalizing mushrooms in another...
08/25/2026

Fun with Impact 🍄🌿

We’re excited to announce that we’ve made significant progress in decriminalizing mushrooms in another Massachusetts community, and if successful it will be our ninth after Somerville, Cambridge, Medford, Northampton, Easthampton, Amherst, Salem, and Provincetown

Our community action hours are a great virtual place to plug in to learn more about our advocacy, share stories of hope, and take action together

We’re also excited to join the picnic hosted with CHAINSAW for a discussion of how corporate board pressure campaigns can benefit the lives of millions of workers and animals in supply chains

Regardless of your experience with advocacy or your worldview, we welcome you to join us in-person or online to learn more about how we can make waves for the world together 🌊🌿🌎

Mushrooms rock our world 🌎 🍄On our walks, we teach core nature principles about how mycelium, the brain network that fru...
08/25/2026

Mushrooms rock our world 🌎 🍄

On our walks, we teach core nature principles about how mycelium, the brain network that fruits mycelium, created our soil and protects our air and water even today- how our planet cycles the building blocks of life and will shape a livable future for us too ❤️

More laughin, less Latin. Inspiration, not just identification 🌿🤙

Thanks to all the groovy people who joined us in Cambridge and Jamaica Plain. Together we found reishi, shrimp of the woods eating reishi, chocolate tube slime mold, Turkey tail, violet tooth, honey fungus, hairy curtain crust, and even blue elfin cups emerging from blue stain (wicked rare!)

New walks dropping later this week. Please share this post with a friend to grow our wood wide web and bring more people into a decentralized movement of people living in balance and learning together ✌️

Mark Your Calendar 🌿👕🌎We’re excited to welcome you to Boston’s premiere clothing swap, arts, and sustainability festival...
08/18/2026

Mark Your Calendar 🌿👕🌎

We’re excited to welcome you to Boston’s premiere clothing swap, arts, and sustainability festival - Rethread Boston!

🎨🖌️ Enjoy live artists constructing and painting pieces that inspire us to live better together AND art installations by local artists

👕 👚 Bring up to five nice clothing items to share and take as many clothing items as you’d like to build your fall wardrobe

🌿 🫟 Bring old clothes back to life with plant dyes and silkscreen printing by ñ press

🪡🧵Bring an item for a complimentary repair from our seamstresses

☕️🌯 Enjoy tasty soul food, coffee, tea, and agua fresca over conversations with neighbors who care about fashion, sustainability and art

🍊💎Build trinkets and gifts with hand-made bioplastics, learning how to construct them too

🎙️🗣️Enjoy interactive and complimentary classes on sustainability- from natural materials to making an impact in your own neighborhood. We’ll also be honoring people with awards for their sustainability work

Please RSVP here and invite friends- no sign up necessary 😎🌎🤙
Tinyurl.com/baystatersmeeting
Link in bio 🔗⬆️

Fungi Provide 🍄🍷🍻This year we’re excited to be sponsoring and supporting Somerville Fermentation Festival to help the fe...
08/12/2026

Fungi Provide 🍄🍷🍻

This year we’re excited to be sponsoring and supporting Somerville Fermentation Festival to help the festival scale its resources and impact. Thank you Flora, Alex, our team, and all the wonderful volunteers

Learn how yeast, a single celled fungi, transformed all of human history and cuisine 🍜🥬

Early tickets to skip the line at 10am and speaker series tickets, like our talk on the future of fungi technologies, can be found at:

Somervillefermfest.org ⬅️🥖

New Mushroom Walks 🍄🌿Thank you to all who joined us Sunday and thanks for leading Darren Massachusetts Mushroom Forager ...
08/11/2026

New Mushroom Walks 🍄🌿

Thank you to all who joined us Sunday and thanks for leading Darren Massachusetts Mushroom Forager

Another heartfelt thanks to all who give to keep our festivals, walks, and events 100% accessible for the community. It’s a special thing to be able to get people together to enjoy our Commonwealth - nature belongs to all of us. And we belong to nature too

A great way to support our work is to share our events with your friends! Please do 😁

Register for our upcoming Boston and Cambridge walks here (Link in our bio):
Tinyurl.com/baystatersmeeting ⬅️

A Sustainable Future 🧢👚We’re excited to welcome you to Rethread Boston, a festival to~👕pick up your new favorite outfit,...
08/10/2026

A Sustainable Future 🧢👚

We’re excited to welcome you to Rethread Boston, a festival to~

👕pick up your new favorite outfit, shirt, or pants
☀️bring clothes back to life with silk screen printing by ñ press
🧵get a favorite item mended/fixed with our team
🌿learn and dye your clothes with plants
🍄‍🟫make legendary gifts with bioplastics
🌯enjoy tasty fare from our partner food trucks
🎨watch live artists and view art exhibitions
🗣️enjoy interactive classes celebrating nature

For the clothing swap, please bring only five or fewer high quality items to give away to the community! You can take as many as you want 😎

Invite a friend and learn more at:
Baystaters.org/bostonrethread ⬅️🍄

Sincere thanks to The City of Boston Arts and Culture City of Boston Arts & Culture our partner ñ press our food partners legacylattecafe The Sleazy Vegan Food Truck and our organizers Colomba Colomba Klenner James James Paul Davis Shark Louise Lao (Shark) In the following weeks, next week we’ll be announcing our artists, festival ambassadors + presenters ❤️‍🔥

Medford Mushroom Fest 🍄Last Sunday was a wonderful time with our community at this beautiful mushroom photo studio. Than...
08/07/2026

Medford Mushroom Fest 🍄

Last Sunday was a wonderful time with our community at this beautiful mushroom photo studio. Thank you to our presenters James Paul Davis with a presentation on the world of fungi and Colomba Klenner with a presentation on adaptagenic mushroom tea 🍵

Thank you so much Kelly Cianflone who hosted us at her photo studio and also took these awesome pictures 📸

Finally thank you to our team members Divine Haven , Louise Lao (Shark) , James Paul Davis , Colomba Klenner , and Kelly K who made the giant paper mache mushrooms you see in the photos 🍄‍🟫

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