Dana Driscoll is obsessed with fungi, and has been foraging them, working with them, and making medicinal preparations with mushrooms for over a decade. Dana is a traditional western herbalist, certified permaculture designer, certified permaculture teacher, writer, and botanical artist residing on a five-acre homestead in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. Dana is a graduate of the 2014 Lindera Herbal Intensive with Michigan Herbalist Jim McDonald, and has continued her herbal education since then by specializing in medicinal mushrooms and crafting wild medicines. She has been teaching herbalism and offering plant walks in Indiana County, PA since 2015. As an herbalist, Dana is particularly committed to working with plants that are local and abundant and focusing on plant-based education that allows humans to reconnect and relearn reciprocal relationships with plants. Dana regularly writes for Plant Healer Magazine and Spirituality and Health magazines on herbal and nature-based topics. Dana’s favorite mushrooms are Hemlock Reishi (Ganoderma Tsugae), Apple Bolette (Exsudoporus frostii), and Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus spp.).