Jessica Love

Alas! It's World Mushroom Day! This October 15th let's get the party spore-ted with a few fun facts.. Did you know…? 🍄 Mushrooms are more closely related to animals than plants? They absorb nutrients from their surroundings rather than making their own food through photosynthesis. 🍄 Without fungi, forests would be buried in their own leftovers? Fungi are nature’s original recyclers. They break down dead leaves, fallen trees, and other organic matter, returning essential nutrients to the...

With gratitude and humility, I acknowledge that I live, work, play and learn on the ancestral lands and waters of the Lək̓ʷəŋən peoples, the Songhees and Xʷsepsəm (Esquimalt) Nations. Nature was calling today so I went to sit with the Earth. Beside the ocean, I felt an intense & profound duality of this place. In front of me: the most beautiful ocean, sparkling in the sun. Yet, inside me: grief, horror and rage for the more than 150,000 Indigenous children who experienced residential schools,...

To the Mushroom Spirits, to the mycelium beneath my feet, to the trees that hold you, and to the Earth that holds us all… I return what was gifted to me. Last year, in this very place, I was blessed to witness more Amanitas gathered together than I had ever seen before. A moment of wonder. A moment of remembering. Today, I come not to take, but to give. May this offering return a little love, to the web that has given so generously. May the spores, the dust, the fragments, and every tiny...