Chase is a farmer who is passionate about facilitating the diversification of backyard, community and school gardens as well as farms by adding mushrooms and other fungi to the landscape. He has been growing mushrooms and deep researching fungi since 2004. Chase operates Backyard Regeneration - a research-and-development tropical mushroom farm - and has successfully designed and implemented many novel mushroom growing techniques. He has completed two Cornell University courses on mushroom cultivation including the Specialty Mushroom Production Course as well as the Woodland Mushroom Cultivation: Growing Mushrooms on Logs, Stumps, and Woodchips course. Chase is also certified in wild mushroom foraging food safety by Mushroom Mountain. He has been organic gardening and organic farming since 2012 and is interested in how mycelium can inform the design of our gardens, farms, and communities. Chase is passionate about growing local varietals of fungi and enjoys culturing mushrooms foraged in the wild. He and his friends use the resulting local master spawn to get more mycelium out into his community so that mushrooms can be grown in gardens and on farms using traditional and low-tech methods. Chase facilitates the closing of waste streams in his community by growing local mushrooms on the wood of invasive trees cut by tree trimmers, as well as on spent coffee grounds and old banana leaves. As a field mycologist, Chase is currently building the foundations for a local fungarium for his community that is dedicated to surveying, documenting, and studying our local fungal diversity in collaboration with the Hawaiʻi Fungi Project. Passionate about how fungi can assist farmers in diversifying their farm plans, he is a mentor in the Farm Apprentice Mentoring Program (FAM) of the Hawaiʻi Farmers Union Foundation. Chase has been a regular featured presenter at the Hawaiʻi Mushroom Festival since its inception where he gives talks on mushroom cultivation and identification and leads wild mushroom identification walks. He is a contributing editor of Fungi Magazine and publishes articles on mushroom cultivation as well as on profiles of tropical mushroom species. Chase is author of A Field Guide to Poisonous Mushrooms of Hawaiʻi which profiles the poisonous mushrooms of the Hawaiian archipelago and is currently available in print.