There’s an immense beauty to be found in the heart of the forest, and Moritz Schmid gained a new appreciation for nature once he decided to venture into the woods. He discovered the incredible diversity of mushrooms while exploring German forests and made them a focal point of his art.
Schmid is a fungi expert and artist with 50,000 Instagram followers under his belt, who owes his unexpected popularity to his love for mushrooms. He gained an appreciation for them while exploring the local forest, and later became a mushroom coach at the German Society for Mycology and a certified course instructor at the German Academy for Forest Bathing and Health.
Schmid’s Instagram page will help you discover mushrooms in their full glory and gain a new appreciation for a wide range of fungi species. He enjoys collecting them while exploring the woods and later arranging them into intricate works of art, based on their colors and type.
In addition to sharing his findings online, Schmid also enjoys helping other people discover the magic of the forest. He hosts workshops and retreats in the woods around Berlin, helping other nature lovers get lost and found in the woods, while discovering all sorts of different mushroom species hidden within.
