A guidebook for growing mushrooms, remembering tradition, and reclaiming relationship with the forest.
A book for growers, medicine makers, and those called to remember.
Indigenous Perspective
✱ Written by a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, this book carries forward forest-tending knowledge that has sustained food sovereignty
✱ Blends indigenous ecological understanding with modern applied mycology, showing you how the two can work together for abundance and regeneration.
Two-Eyed Seeing
Rooted in a Working Farm
✱ Every technique has been tested on our farm, and can be scaled for serious growers and beginners.
Grow something that grows you back
Grapevine Road
Marshall, NC, USA
Cherokee Homeland
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“Beautifully written and deeply practical. This book reconnects mushrooms to the cultural and ecological webs they belong to”
- Robert Dale Rogers, Herbalist and Mycologist
This is not just a cultivation guide.
It's an invitation - to return to the forest, to remember ancestral ways of growing food and medicine, and to reconnect with the living systems that sustain us.
If you are learning with The Forest Farmacy - of even considering it - The Mycelial Healer is your perfect companion.
- A practical guide to regenerative mushroom growing
- A spiritual invitation to grow in right relationship with land and community
- A living bridge between tradition and technique
Written by Cherokee mycologist Christopher Parker and eco-psychologist Katherine Parker PhD, the book weaves decades of experience in mushroom cultivation, indigenous regenerative practice, and forest-based healing into one essential resource.
We’ve seen how powerful it is to reconnect with land-based wisdom, ancestral practices, and the quiet intelligence of fungi.
Our programs are rooted in relationship—not just information. This isn’t about academic theory. It’s about hands-on, heart-open learning that feeds your soul as much as the soil.
We are working, with many others, towards food sovereignty—the ability to feed ourselves and our communities without dependence on fragile, profit-driven, extractive systems. We know these forests can once again sustain whole communities, human and more-than-human, for generations to come—and we’re training the people who will make that vision real.
- Low-tech cultivation method you can use at home, on the farm, or in the forest
- Medicinal mushroom profiles with ancestral uses and preparation techniques
- How to set up a mushroom growing operation
- Sterile lab technique for successful culturing
- Guidance for reciprocal growing rooted in indigenous ecological understanding
- Methods for making spawn, extracts and value-added products
- Reflections, stories, and seasonal rhythms to help you grow in right relationship
- Step-by-step instructions for growing Lion's Mane, Reishi, Shiitakes, Oysters and many more.
“Combines science, spirit and soil in a way that honors tradition and inspires action"
- Michael Judd, author of For the Love of Pawpaws