Join MOFAD at Chelsea Market’s Makers’ Studio for an evening of mushroom education, food and music with multidisciplinary citizen scientist and founder of MycoSymbiotics, William Padilla-Brown, AKA Permaculture Papi.

For most urbanites, the urban food chain begins at the local grocery store and ends at home as waste. We can re-define waste by taking measures such as taking our food scraps and creating soil, growing our own food, and making a true food chain.

Fungi and their mushrooms are the best teachers in showing us how we can turn waste into abundance. From foraging to composting, let’s learn how we can redefine our urban food-chain.

Joining Padilla-Brown in conversation is world-renowned filmmaker and ethnobotanist, Anthony Basil Rodriguez, whose work largely focuses on highlighting wild species of bananas around the world.

After the talk, William, who is also a rapper, will treat audience members to a performance of his original music while guests can enjoy a beverage and a tasting of mushroom empanadas made by our friends at Eat Offbeat with MycoSymbiotics Cordy Hot Sauce.

Re-Designing the Urban Food-Chain is the second in a four-part series exploring Indigenous Foodways that will take place at the Makers’ Studio in Chelsea Market.