Chaotic Forager

Learn to forage plants and mushrooms!

Gabrielle Cerberville, otherwise known as Chaotic Forager and sometimes as the Internet’s Mushroom Auntie, is a celebrated foraging educator, community mycologist, and climate advocate based in the Charlottesville area.

Known for her informative, funny, high-energy social media content, which has gained her nearly two million followers across platforms, Gabrielle has given keynotes, classes, and forays around the country. A current PhD student at the University of Virginia in the Music Composition and Computer Technologies program, Gabrielle researches the intersection between art, science, and our responsibility to understand, protect, and communicate with the natural world.

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Testimonials

  • “Gabrielle’s staggering knowledge of mycology somehow never gets in her way of speaking at the level of her audience, meeting them at their current level of understanding, and then finding ways to expand upon that and teach them something. This, paired with her zeal for discovery and sunny disposition, makes her an excellent and effective instructor.”

    Yakob K.

  • "Hilarious, enthusiastic, and so, so knowledgeable."

    Samuel G.

  • "I went on a mushroom foray with Gabrielle during a drought and was amazed at her ability to always find something interesting to teach us about. I learned more about mushrooms on that hike than I have from any of my field guides."

    Kelly H.

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