A Festival of Irish Botanical Lifeways
for Liberatory Herbworkers, Community Carers, & Radical Plant Folk
Deireadh Fómhair 02 - 04 (Oct) 2026
The Common Knowledge Centre, An Chláir V95DK38
Mushrooms & Roses is an annual gathering that celebrates 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.
What’s Included in a ticket?
• The Opening Reception with Singing Circle/ Session Music
• Two Workshops or Talks
• All materials for workshops
• Herbal Remedies Station & Bitters Bar
• Breakfasts & Saturday Lunch
• The Market & Evening Soiree
• Invitations to Nature Walks, Guided Meditation, Time to Explore Buachaill, and The Sunday Fóram Poiblí
What’s not Included?
• Accommodation: We have limited accommodation available onsite at the Common Knowledge Centre. Our discounted festival prices include accommodation for Friday and Saturday nights — there are no single night options. Booking is available with ticket sales.
Offsite accommodation available through Puffin Rooms B&B, the Hydro Hotel, and elsewhere in the area.
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MUSHROOMS & ROSES 2026
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Talks with:
Rupa Marya (Deep Medicine Circle)
Jimmy Billings (Gaelic Re-Existence)
Making & Learning:
Tara Máirín (Catalyst Community Herbals)
Mikael & Eilís Galvez (Gaelic Fungi Farm)
Cork Queer Nature Collective
Dan Connor
Lorna Mauney-Brodek (Herbalista)
Nature Walk:
Ciara Parsons (Field Good Fridays)
Mycelial Meditation:
Dr Julia Skinner (Roots + Branches)
Herb Station & Bitters Bar:
Dublin Herb Bike Collective
Saturday Evening Market:
Gaelic Fungi Farm
Banner Books
Queer Herbal Zines
Women of Hebron
Palestinian Kitchen
Savage Craic Apothecary
and more
Funds raised go to support Trans+ Herbal care packages
and the Black Flag Herbal Clinic
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Savage Craic and Mushrooms & Roses is queer, neuro-expansive, and disabled led. We have direct experience with access needs, including financial considerations, and we consider disability justice central to our work. Having put on sliding scale events for many, many moons we are always looking at new strategies to make things as accessible as possible. For 2026 we are using a three tier system listed in the booking section.
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Access Details
• There is proper ventilation and/or HEPA air filtration in shared spaces
• Guests are encouraged to arrive and remain scent free
• Masks, sanitiser, nervines and other herbal care remedies are available onsite
• All toilets are gender neutral
• ISL interpreter on site with advanced notice
• There are quiet spaces available onsite
• There are rooms and toilets onsite that are wheelchair accessible
• Common Knowledge has limited access for mobility devices, the pathway to the Octagon and Studio are rough but accessible, some areas of the site are sloped and muddy
• We have immunocompromised folx in this gathering, if you are sick that weekend please stay home and take care
This outline is directly informed by the work ov Sins Invalid, Alexis J. Cunningfolk, and in direct collaboration with comrade and collaborator Tara Máirín with input from various individuals/ communities in Ireland.
Disability justice, economic and health autonomy has a long way to go in Ireland — do all you can and take action to acknowledge the value ov access, self-determination and the expectation ov difference.
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“Herbalists should go with the flow, embrace being on the wrong side of capitalism and the law, and put our energies towards establishing decentralized, autonomous, grassroots health networks that empower community self-reliance, provide care to those most in need, and reduce the need for people to access conventional medicine.”
Dave Meesters
Special thanks to Comhairle Contae an Chláir for their support
TICKETS FOR MUSHROOMS & ROSES 2026 COMING SOON
CLICK HERE TO EXPLORE OUR 2025 GATHERING
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Savage Craic Apothecary and this not-for-profit community care festival is organised as a social enterprise and is made with community support.
Donations Welcome
