Cassandra Beaumont
I'm the creator of MYCO.SCENE — a living map of the people, places, and gatherings of mushroom culture — and host of Heal With Mushrooms, a podcast centering the women moving mycology forward.
the mission
Mushroom culture is expanding, but finding your way in can still feel surprisingly hard. The people are scattered. The gatherings are easy to miss. And too many of the women shaping the field stay at the edges of the story.
I'm here to change that.
I build the places where mushroom people find each other, and I make room for the stories carrying the field somewhere new. I'm also an artist, an herbalist and forager, and a longtime student of the sacred feminine.
There's a thread through all of it. I studied sociology at UC Santa Cruz, with an emphasis in sustainable living, and it's still the lens I see through — drawn less to fungi alone than to everything that grows up around them. How people gather. How knowledge moves. How a shared fascination becomes a culture — and how the right spaces make it easier to step inside.
Weaving the mycelial web.
the work

the map
MYCO.SCENE is a living map of mushroom events, forays, organizations, businesses, and gathering places — helping foragers, cultivators, practitioners, and the mushroom-curious discover what's happening, who's making it happen, and where they belong.
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the podcast
Heal With Mushrooms is a living archive of women in mycology, gathered where science, story, ecology, and culture meet. Intimate conversations with researchers, practitioners, founders, and educators — and people whose lives have been remade by their work with fungi.
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where faerie meets psychedelic — flower kaleido: real blooms turned kaleidoscopic, laced with sacred geometry and neon light. photographs pulled somewhere between the garden and the cosmos.

reach out
Making something at the edges of mushrooms, healing, or the sacred feminine? For collaborations, interviews, press, or a note from the understory — come find me.
@myco.cass