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Meet Amanda Janney

Language and KM Mushrooms are the work of Amanda Janney—a mushroom farmer, herbalist, educator, gardener, and lifelong student of the natural world.

For years, Amanda has immersed herself in the study and cultivation of fungi—not only learning how to grow them, but learning how to communicate their extraordinary complexity and relevance to others.

Through cooking classes and mushroom dinners, farmers market education, panels, lectures, and conversations with audiences of all ages and backgrounds, she has made the fascinating world of fungi more accessible—and more alive.

Highlights of Amanda's speaking career include the California Academy of Sciences, the Olympic Peninsula Fungi Festival, the Santa Cruz Mountain Mushroom Festival, and the Exploratorium, alongside mycology gatherings and community organizations throughout the West Coast.

Her approach to education is equal parts science, storytelling, and wonder.

Amanda has a particular gift for making the mysterious world of fungi accessible—translating complex biological systems into experiences that leave people not only more knowledgeable, but more inspired than when they arrived.

That instinct to translate eventually moved beyond education and into medicine making. Amanda began exploring how mushrooms could be prepared as tinctures, creating new ways for people to incorporate fungi into their daily lives and making their potential benefits more accessible beyond the dinner table.

What began as mushroom medicine making opened the door to a much broader world of plants, preparations, and traditional practices. Drawn deeper into the intelligence of the botanical world, Amanda pursued formal training in herbalism, expanding her understanding of the relationships between plants, fungi, the human body, and the many ways medicine can be prepared and shared.

This evolution—from cultivation, to education, to medicine making—became part of the foundation for Language.

But mushrooms are only one part of a much larger conversation.

A trained herbalist and avid gardener, Amanda has spent her life drawn toward the natural rhythms of the world: the intelligence of ecosystems, the cycles of death and renewal, and the quiet abundance that emerges when we learn to work with nature rather than against it.

She has dedicated her life's path to understanding what it means to live in right relationship with the extraordinary place we get to call home.

Because abundance, health, and joy are our birthright.

And often, the answers that help us unlock them are already written into the world around us—in the plants, the fungi, the soil, and the countless other beings with whom we share this planet.

We only have to learn how to read them.

Amanda is available for select speaking engagements, panels, workshops, private cultivation classes, and team experiences.

Whether speaking to scientists, curious beginners, corporate teams, students, or fellow nature lovers, Amanda brings depth, warmth, humor, and an infectious sense of wonder to every room.

Available for:

  • Keynote speaking and educational presentations
  • Panels and moderated conversations
  • Mycology and fungi education
  • Mushroom cultivation workshops
  • Private group experiences
  • Corporate and team-building workshops
  • Herbalism, wellness, and the more-than-human world
  • Podcasts and interviews

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