Our Team

Rae Hart

Founder and Fungi Farmer

Rae Hart is a registered nurse, herbalist, artist and beekeeper who is dedicated to community health and regenerative agriculture. She is passionate about bringing nature’s magic and medicine into everyday life through cultivation and connection. After listening closely to the ancestral fungal beings, she founded Ground Culture with a commitment to working in partnership with the mushrooms to grow edible food, medicine and networks for healing. Rae also serves as the apothecary manager, herbal clinician and mentor at the People’s Health Clinic of Portland, a free integrative health resource for the houseless population. She lives and farms in Portland, Oregon.

Tori Armbrust

Queen of Spawn

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Dorothee Royal-hedinger

Social Media Manager

Dorothée Sophie Royal is a writer, producer, medicine maker, and mother. She is the founder of MoonTent, a wellness brand that exists to uplift feminine wisdom and make it easy for women to celebrate their cycles. She hosts the bi-monthly #moonwisepodcast and was selected in 2018 as one of fifty women for #50WomenCan Change the World in Media and Entertainment. 

Born in Germany and raised in the U.S. and abroad, Dorothée has a deep love for the natural world and an appreciation for cross-cultural healing. After completing a degree at the University of Chicago and working in the film and nonprofit worlds, she found herself longing for a more holistic approach to life and went on to become a student of herbal medicine, nutrition and earth-honoring wisdom traditions. She is wildly grateful to her elders and teachers, her family and the mountains, rivers, trees, fungi and flowers that inspire her.