Mushrooms & Roses
A Festival of Irish Botanical Lifeways for herbworkers, community carers, & everyday plant folk
Mushrooms & Roses is an annual gathering centering emergent traditional healing practices as a foundation for mutual aid in Ireland and beyond.
We come together and share the skills of botanical medicine, radical mycology, soil and seed work with the intention to build resilient lifeways through queer ecological vitalism and community care.
We make medicine, exchange ideas, hold space together, and cultivate decolonial futures — forging relationships with our nature community and each other.
Mushrooms & Roses 2025
Friday featured a special installment of the Field Good Fridays restoration initiative with Ciara Parsons, where folx learned about the importance of native wildflower habitats and the role they play in overall ecosystem health.
That evening was our festival reception — a night filled with song and stories hosted by Aoife Hammond.
Saturday was the heart ov the gathering with workshops from herbalists and soilworkers, a market of remedies from our facilitators, goods from Women in Hebron, Dublin Herb Bike Herb Station, & a nourishing lunch from the Common Knowledge kitchen.
The workshops sessions included:
Lucy O'Hagan: Bia na Shínsir: Reclaiming Ancestral Foodways as Medicine — explore how reclaiming these foodways can nourish our bodies, communities, and collective resilience.
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Connemara Apothecary: Aromatherapy For Natural Anxiety Relief — make several aromatherapy tools with powerful anxiety-relieving essential oils that help to calm the nervous system.
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Gaelic Fungi: Growing Gourmet Mushrooms At Home — if you've ever been interested in mushroom cultivation this is a wonderful opportunity to learn.
gaelicfungifarms.ie
Tara Baoth Mooney: Listening to the hUath — learn about the heart protective and nourishing nature of Hawthorn, making tea, tincture, and ritual.
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Ivywood: Nourishing the Nerves — learn how to grow, harvest, and make medicine with a variety of nervous system support plants.
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llewyn máire: Radical Vitalism & Community Care — We'll explore radical vitalism as a tool for deep healing and make some fire cider to share with our friends and family.
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That evening we all gathered together to enjoy the food of Palestinian Kitchen with session music, wine and local Kombucha where we all built relationships, connected with old comrades, and reflected on the skill sharing of the day.
Sunday was our free public forum with Tara Baoth Mooney, two of the founders of Dublin Herb Bike, Lorna Mauney-Brodek and Anna Drews, to discuss ways that radical herbalism and other forms of plant & soil work can build community care networks, establishing mutual aid and crisis support for emergency response, climate chaos and political liberation.
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Savage Craic and this not-for-profit herbalism festival is organised as a social enterprise and is only possible with community support.
