Caine Barlow is a Fungi Educator and Mycologist based in Melbourne,
Australia. He gives regular talks on mycology, fungi conservation, and
teaches gourmet mushroom cultivation. Caine is a mentor for Milkwood
Permaculture for their online Mushroom Cultivation course. He works
closely with the Australian organisations Entheogenesis Australis, and
is a co-founder of US-based organisation The Entheome Foundation.
Caine started foraging mushrooms in the early 1990's, started cultivating gourmet fungi in the mid 2000's, and has been teaching mushroom cultivation in person since 2017. He did his Bachelor of Science at the University of Tasmania, and a Master of Science at the University of Melbourne where his research project was based around Conservation Mycology.
He has written for Entheogenesis Australis, DoubleBlind, ThirdWave, MicroDose, and Healing Maps. Caine is currently working on a book project, expected to be released mid-2023! He is an admin and moderator on many Facebook fungi groups. In addition to fungi, he has had a long-term interest in ethnobotany, ethnobotanical literature, and growing medicinal plants. Caine posts regularly on his Instagram, @guerrillamycology. His website is www.guerrillamycology.com