TANYA DONATELLI
Tanya Donatelli currently works at North Spore making tinctures, packing dried mushrooms, and managing inventory. She also runs a small business called Oak Fairy Apothecary, which focuses on providing community with locally sourced herbs, mushrooms, & educational content. In 2022, she taught classes on medicinal mushrooms and tincture making at North Spore, Moon Mama Herbals, Mycology Outside, & Fantastic Forage. She also participated as a vendor at the Maine Fungi Fest, Gray Farmer's Market, and Terra Marketplace.
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Tanya was born in Ringwood, NJ and now resides in Gray, ME. She has been formally studying herbalism since 2018 and has since earned over 700+ hours of study through coursework and apprenticeships at Twin Star Herbal Education. Tanya graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2009, and formerly worked as a free-lance location scout for film and television shows in NYC. She finds immense joy in foraging and loves to share her knowledge of medicinal plants and fungi with others.
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At the 2023 Maine Fungi Fest, Tanya will be teaching a class and doing a demonstration on how to make a double extracted medicinal mushroom tincture. She is very excited and honored to be a part of this year's fest!