CMS in Orion Magazine
If you were at the Mount Pisgah Arboretum to help setup for the 2024 Mushroom Festival, you probably noticed Meera Subramanian interviewing several CMS members for the feature article of the Orion magazine’s summer of 2025 issue dedicated to the Future of Fungi. Meera also did interviews at the Yachats Mushroom Festival the weekend before. Of course not everyone she interviewed is featured in the article, but you will know the two main characters: Christian Schwartz who was our featured guest speaker for the festival and our own Ron Hamill who is pictured right with Meera.
You can read the full article here, and also read Meera’s expanded notes on her Substack feed. You will recognize quite a few more past and present CMS members in her Substack notes including: Joe Spivack and Cathy, Chef Joseph, Jeem Peterson, Trent and Kristen Blizzard, Susie Holmes, and Molly Widmer.
You may also view the virtual launch of the Future of Fungi issue here, purchase a single issue print copy here, or subscribe to the Orion magazine here.
Meera Subramanian is an award-winning freelance journalist who writes narrative nonfiction about home, in the personal and planetary sense, in a time of climate crisis. Her work has appeared in publications such as Nature, The New York Times, The NewYorker.com, and Orion. She is the author of A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis and teaches creative nonfiction at Sewanee School of Letters in Tennessee. Previously, she was a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT, Fulbright-Nehru senior research fellow, board president of the Society of Environmental Journalists, and the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities at Princeton University. She is currently a FRONTIERS Science Journalism fellow in residency at the Basque Center for Climate Change (BC3) in Bilbao, Spain but her home base is in the US, on a glacial moraine on the edge of the Atlantic. Meera is a perpetual wanderer who can’t stop digging in the dirt to plant perennials and looking up in search of birds.
