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    The Mushroom Hour Podcast

    Hi there…welcome to Mushroom Hour. Listen in as we venture into kingdom fungi with unique and beautiful humans who all share a passion for mushrooms. We’ll go forage for wild mushrooms, explore their potency as nature’s medicines, become citizen mycologists, transform human consciousness and learn how mushrooms inspired art, spirituality and culture throughout our history. There are so many ways that mushrooms can benefit (wo)mankind – we just need to tap into the mycelium network and let them share their gifts. Excited to have you along for the journey! Mush Love

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    Ep. 82: Zombie Cicadas, Fungivore Millipedes & Forest Pathology (feat. Dr. Matt Kasson) May 20, 2021
    Show notes

    Today on the Mushroom Hour Podcast we have the privilege of speaking with Dr. Matt Kasson, Associate Professor of Forest Pathology and Mycology at West Virginia University. Dr. Kasson received his Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from the Pennsylvania State University where his research focused on using a native fungus, Verticillium nonalfalfae, as a biological control of the invasive tree, Ailanthus altissima (tree-of-heaven). He also holds an A.A.S. from Paul Smiths College and a B.S. and M.S. from the University of Maine. His current research areas include fungal-arthropod interactions, biological control of invasive plants and pathogens, and the biology and ecology of historic and emerging diseases of forest trees. Dr. Kasson is currently the Director of the International Culture Collection of (Vesicular) Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (INVAM) and currently has research focused on the metabolites associated with interactions between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and their plant partners. Dr. Kasson teaches undergraduate courses on general plant pathology and forest pest management and offers special topics courses for graduate students including advanced plant disease diagnostics.
    TOPICS COVERED:

    • Origin as a Young Naturalist in Susquehanna
    • Overview of Forest Pathology and Fungal Pathogens
    • Chestnut Blight, Dutch Elm Disease, Laurel Vascular Wilt
    • Reproductive Strategies of Pathogenic Fungi
    • Fungal Pathogens as a Bio-control Agent
    • The Precautionary Principle
    • Changing Environments & the Emergence of Pathogenic Disease
    • Adaptive, Facultative Capacities of Fungi
    • Massospora Fungi & Zombie Cicadas
    • Discovery of Psilocybin & Amphetamine in Massospora-Infected Cicadas
    • Future Research into Massospora Effects on Cicadas
    • Fungus Feeding Millipedes as Biodiversity Hotspots
    • Meeting the Team in the Kasson Lab at West Virginia University
    • Sage Advice for Academic Pursuits into Mycology

    EPISODE RESOURCES:

    • Matt Kasson WVU Profile: https://www.davis.wvu.edu/faculty-staff/directory/matthew-kasson
    • Matt Kasson Twitter: https://twitter.com/kasson_wvu
    • Tree of Heaven: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ailanthus_altissima
    • Verticillium nonalfalfae (Fungi): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verticillium_nonalfalfae
    • Colletotrichum (Fungi Genus): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colletotrichum
    • Cryphonectria parasitica (Fungi): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chestnut_blight
    • Massospora cicadina (Fungi): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massospora_cicadina
    • Brachycybe lecontii (Millipede): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachycybe_lecontii
    • Neonectria (Fungi Genus): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonectria

    Ep. 81: Fungi Magazine, Telluride Mushroom Festival & Our Future with Fungi (feat. Britt Bunyard) May 13, 2021
    Show notes

    Today on Mushroom Hour we are joined by magnanimous mushroom mogul Britt Bunyard. Britt is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal Fungi. Britt received a Masters in Botany from Clemson University and a PhD in Plant Pathology from Penn State University. He has worked academically (and played very amateurishly) as a mycologist his entire career, writing scientifically for many research journals, popular science magazines, and books. He has served as an editor for mycological and entomological research journals, and mushroom guidebooks. A popular evangelizer on all things fungal, Britt has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, National Geographic Magazine, PBS’s NOVA television program, and in 2016 was made Executive Director of the Telluride Mushroom Festival. He’s given talks on mushrooms ranging across so many different subjects, I’m excited to learn what he’s focused on now and what he sees as the future of mycophile culture.
    TOPICS COVERED:

    • Childhood Foraging Morels in Ohio & Clutching an Audubon Guide
    • Dynamic Interplays of Entomology & Mycology
    • Insect & Macrofungi Symbioses
    • Flies, Yeasts & Mushrooms
    • The Birth of Fungi Magazine
    • Traveling the World Seeking Mushrooms & Stories
    • Most Popular FUNGI Magazine Issue about Genus Psilocybe
    • Explosion of Mycophilia Across the Western World
    • Promising Future of Mycoremediation Research
    • Revolution of Listening to Nature
    • Origins & Future of the Telluride Mushroom Festival
    • From Britt’s First Telluride to Becoming Executive Director of the Festival
    • Fungal Solutions Accommodating Human Population Growth
    • The Future for Britt & Fungi Magazine

    EPISODE RESOURCES:

    • Fungi Magazine Website: http://fungimag.com/
    • Fungi Magazine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/43995545858/
    • Drosophila melanogaster flies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosophila_melanogaster
    • NAMA Website: https://namyco.org/
    • The Mycologist Journal (Inspiration): https://www.researchgate.net/journal/Mycologist-0269-915X
    • The Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms (Book): https://www.amazon.com/Beginners-Guide-Mushrooms-Everything-Cultivating/dp/1631599119/

    Ep. 80: Finding the Mother Tree - Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (feat. Prof. Suzanne Simard) May 04, 2021
    Show notes

    Professor Simard's must-read first book "Finding the Mother Tree" is OUT NOW:
    https://suzannesimard.com/finding-the-mother-tree-book/
    This book will change how you see forests and how you understand the relationships between trees and fungi.
    Today we have the humbling opportunity to speak with the incomparable Professor Suzanne Simard. Suzanne is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; she’s been compared to Rachel Carson, hailed as a scientist who conveys complex, technical ideas in a way that is both dazzling and profound. Her work has influenced filmmakers (think James Cameron’s Avatar) and her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide. We’ve had the chance to read an early copy of her first book “Finding the Mother Tree” and have been mesmerized by how Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates vital truths – that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks full of mycorrhizal fungi by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities and living communal lives not that different from our own.
    TOPICS COVERED:

    • Simard Family Origins and a Life-long Love with Old Growth Forests
    • “Free-to-Grow” Policies
    • Competition vs. Cooperation Views of Forest Ecology
    • Discovering the Mycorrhizal Network
    • PhD Research – Transfer of Carbon between Trees via Mycorrhizae
    • Groundbreaking Research Published in “Nature” in 1997
    • Women in Forestry
    • How Do Trees & Fungi Benefit from Their Mycorrhizal Relationships?
    • Mapping a Mycorrhizal Network
    • What is a Mother Tree?
    • Benefits of Uniting Anthropomorphic Epistemologies and Scientific Research
    • Aboriginal, First Nation & Indigenous Systems of Knowledge
    • An Intimate View of Suzanne’s Life to Humanize Scientific Endeavour
    • “The Mother Tree Project”, Future Plans & Future Research

    EPISODE RESOURCES:

    • Suzanne Simard Website: https://suzannesimard.com/
    • "Finding the Mother Tree" (Book): https://suzannesimard.com/finding-the-mother-tree-book/
    • The Mother Tree Project: https://mothertreeproject.org/
    • Sir David Read (Inspiration): https://royalsociety.org/people/david-read-12152/
    • Dr. Teresa Ryan: https://indigenous.forestry.ubc.ca/profiles/teresa-ryan/
    • Prof. Susan Dudley: https://www.biology.mcmaster.ca/component/comprofiler/userprofile/sdudley.html?Itemid=1027

    Ep. 79: Solutions in Soil Carbon, Fungal Inspiration & Creating New Value Systems (feat. Larry Evans) Apr 29, 2021
    Show notes

    Today on Mushroom Hour we are joined by mycophagy legend Larry Evans. Larry Evans is a mushroom hunter, teacher, cultivator, song writer, and cook. He has been instrumental in organizing forays, festivals, and workshops in Colorado, Montana, Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, Bolivia, and now Jamaica. He is a founder of the Western Montana Mycological Association, wrote a field guide to mushrooms of the Amazon, and appeared in Ron Mann’s come-documentary Know Your Mushrooms. His vast body of work includes detailed accounts of burn morel tracking throughout the Western US, explorations of jam-packed fungal jungles in Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador and evangelizing audiences about means of fungal digestion, how fungi remediate contaminated soils, and what the process of mushroom making is all about. Time to laugh and learn with a real-life fungal pioneer.
    TOPICS COVERED:

    • “Know Your Mushrooms”
    • Changes in Soil Carbon Throughout Earth’s History
    • Fungal Peroxidase Enzymes & the Carbon Cycle
    • When it Comes to Wood, Bury Not Burn!
    • Fossil Water, BCR & Soil Carbon Implications on Wildfires
    • Fire-following Fairy Cups
    • Understanding Soil Carbon in Land Management
    • Trophic Levels of Wood Resources
    • Mycoremediation & Fungal Adsorption
    • Protein Production in the Developing World
    • Mycofiltration
    • Demystifying Human Fictions of Money & Property
    • Creating New Value Systems
    • New Models of Human Organization Inspired by Self-Balancing Systems

    EPISODE RESOURCES:

    • Larry Evans Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrMushroomlarry
    • Larry Evans IG: https://www.instagram.com/mushroomlarry/
    • Western Montana Mycological Association: http://wmma.wildsoil.com/
    • "Know Your Mushrooms" Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWf7fM5iLYc
    • Soil Carbon Cycle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_carbon
    • Daldinia concentrica (mushroom): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daldinia_concentrica
    • Geopyxi carbonaria (mushroom): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geopyxis_carbonaria

    Ep. 78: Oakland Hyphae - First Annual Psilocybin Cup & BIPOC Entheogen Empowerment (feat. Reggie of Oakland Hyphae) Apr 20, 2021
    Show notes

    Today on Mushroom Hour we are blessed by the presence of Reggie, activist, mycologist and founder of Oakland Hyphae. Reggie studied political science at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University and now has over a decade of political campaign experience ranging from local and state-level races to 3 Presidential races to working with the New York State Democrats, the DCCC, and the DNC. On the West Coast Reggie worked on a local level to replace police in schools with guidance counselors for the Black Organizing Project in Oakland. Inspired by early-life transformative experiences with psilocybin-containing mushrooms, Reggie has had a lifelong passion for mycology and now consults with the largest mushroom cultivators in the world. He has worked with the largest cultivators in The Netherlands and is currently advising in the establishment of the largest commercial mushroom farm and state of the art testing lab in Jamaica. He also has over 10 years of domestic experience in the US cannabis industry. Reggie is a member of the Advisory Board for Decriminalize Nature and an avid activist for police reform and an ally of The Movement for Black Lives.
    TOPICS COVERED:

    • Reggie’s Introduction to Psilocybin & Travels to Europe
    • Activist Work for Political Change & Racial Equality
    • Psilocybin Mushrooms as an Ancient Spiritual Technology
    • Formation of Oakland Hyphae
    • The First “Psilocybin Cup” April 2021
    • Combining Passions for Mushroom Cultivation & Plant Medicine BIPOC Activism
    • Process of Testing Compounds in Psilocybin Mushrooms
    • Importance of BIPOC Leadership in Psychedelic Spaces
    • Future of Oakland Hyphae
    • Next Psilocybin Cup & Oakland Psychedelic Conference 9/20/21
    • Lessons Learned from the Cannabis Industry
    • Oakland as a Leader in Equity in Plant Medicine
    • Colonization of Psychedelics in Jamaica
    • Influence of Big Money on Emerging Psilocybin Mushroom Marketplace

    EPISODE RESOURCES:

    • Oakland Hyphae IG: https://www.instagram.com/oakland_hyphae/
    • Oakland Hyphae Website: https://www.oaklandhyphae510.com/
    • Spring 2021 Psilocybin Cup: https://oakland-hyphae.teachable.com/p/oakland-hyphae-psilocybin-cup-spring-21
    • The Ancestor Project: https://www.instagram.com/theancestorproject/
    • Negus in Nature: https://www.instagram.com/negusinnature/
    • Twisted Tree Nursery: https://www.instagram.com/twisted_tree_nursery/
    • Pacific Substrates: https://www.instagram.com/pacificsubstrates/
    • Diaspora Psychedelic Society: https://www.instagram.com/diasporapsychedelicsociety/
    • Kilindi Iyi: http://babakilindi.com/
    • Darron le Barron: https://www.instagram.com/darren_le_baron/
    • Decriminalize Nature: https://www.instagram.com/decriminalizenature/
    • SF Psychedelic Society: https://www.instagram.com/psychedelicsocietysf/

    Ep. 77: Teaming with Microbes - The Organic Gardener’s Guide To The Soil Food Web (feat. Jeff Lowenfels) Apr 13, 2021
    Show notes

    Today on Mushroom Hour we have the privilege of speaking with Jeff Lowenfels. Jeff is the author of the Award-winning books “Teaming With Microbes: The Organic Gardener’s Guide To The Soil Food Web”, “Teaming With Nutrients: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition” and “Teaming With Fungi: The Organic Grower’s Guide to Mycorrhizae”. Jeff Lowenfels has become a leader in the organic gardening/sustainability movement because of these best-selling books. His “Guide to the soil food web” has been hailed as one of the most important gardening books in the last 25 years. His talks have converted tens of thousands of gardeners at venues throughout North and South America to follow the path of organic gardening. Jeff hosted Alaska public television’s most popular show, “Alaska Gardens with Jeff Lowenfels.” Most importantly for him, Jeff is the founder of the national program “Plant A Row for The Hungry.” This program is active all 50 states and Canada and has resulted in millions pounds of garden produce being donated to feed the hungry every year.
    TOPICS COVERED:

    • Transformation from “Chemical Head” to Organic Gardener
    • Discovering the Soil Food Web
    • Teaming with Microbes
    • Nematodes, Protozoa, Fungi and the Rhizosphere
    • Testing for Soil Health
    • Teaming with Nutrients
    • How do Plants Eat?
    • Biological Processes of Plant Cells
    • Roles of Mycorrhizal Fungi
    • Humans Controlled by Microorganisms
    • Spiritual Microbial Ecology
    • Chemical Agriculture & the Soil Food Web
    • Our Future Depends on Soil
    • Planting a Row for the Hungry

    EPISODE RESOURCES:

    • Jeff Lowenfels' Column: https://www.adn.com/author/jeff-lowenfels/
    • "Teaming with Microbes": https://www.amazon.com/Teaming-Microbes-Organic-Gardeners-Revised/dp/1604691131
    • "Teaming with Nutrients": https://www.amazon.com/Teaming-Nutrients-Gardeners-Optimizing-Nutrition/dp/1604693142/
    • "Teaming with Fungi": https://www.amazon.com/Teaming-Fungi-Organic-Mycorrhizae-Gardeners/dp/1604697296/
    • Rudolf Steiner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner
    • Dr. Elaine Ingham: https://www.soilfoodweb.com/
    • Microbiometer (Test your soil biomass!): https://microbiometer.com/
    • Plant a Row for the Hungry: https://gardencomm.org/PAR

    Ep. 76: Mycorenewal - Ecological Restoration, Microbial Ecology & Bioremediation (feat. Mia Maltz PhD) Apr 07, 2021
    Show notes

    Today on Mushroom Hour we are joined by the incredible myco-maven Mia Maltz PhD. As a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Division of Biomedical Sciences at UC Riverside, her research focuses on fungal communities and functional ecology in novel ecosystems, including pumice plains, drying lakebeds, and the lung mycobiome. Mia studied at the University of California, Irvine where she received my Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, with an emphasis on Ecological Restoration and Fungi. Her dissertation work in Kathleen Treseder’s Lab of Fungi, Ecosystems, and Global Change looked at the effects of habitat fragmentation and ecosystem degradation on fungal community composition and function. For her dissertation research, Mia investigated whether restoration techniques affect fungi and evaluated the efficacy of methods for restoring mycorrhizal fungal function within degraded landscapes. As an ecologist working at the interface of community ecology, biogeography, and mycology, her work broadly focuses on community responses to environmental perturbations, which feedback to influence plant and fungal community structure and ecosystem functioning.
    TOPICS COVERED:

    • Discovering a Passion for Permaculture & Ecological Restoration
    • The Power of Showing Up & Making Connections
    • Importance of Surveys Prior to Any Course of Bioremediation
    • Functions of Different Mycorrhizal Fungi
    • Roles of Saprobic Fungi & Pathogenic Fungi in Ecological Restoration
    • Plant and Microbial Communications
    • Importance of Precautionary Principle
    • Ecological BioStimulation & BioAugmentation
    • Founding of CoRenewal & Amazon MycoRenewal Project
    • Open-Source Research Protocols
    • Future Economic Significance of Bioremediation
    • Environmental Justice
    • Dust Microbiome & Fungal Ecosystems in the Air
    • Women in Mycology

    EPISODE RESOURCES:

    • Mia Maltz Academic Website: https://sites.uci.edu/maltz/
    • Mia Maltz Personal Website: http://miamaltz.com/
    • Mia Maltz IG: https://www.instagram.com/myceliumia/
    • Mia Maltz Twitter: https://twitter.com/miamaltz
    • CoRenewal & Amazon MycoRenewal: https://www.amazonmycorenewal.org/
    • John Todd: https://www.toddecological.com/
    • Jan Colemeier: https://www.amazon.com/Marine-Mycology-Higher-Jan-Kohlmeyer/dp/1483241882
    • Treseder Lab: http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/tresederlab/
    • Dr. Michael Allen: https://ccb.ucr.edu/facilities/lab
    • Mycological Society of America - Students: https://msastudents.org/
    • CZNet: https://criticalzone.org/
    • Protocols.io: https://www.protocols.io/
    • Phlebia centrifuga (fungi): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlebia_centrifuga



    Ep. 75: "Growing Back to Nature", Power of Storytelling & How Bananas Changed the World (feat. Anthony Basil Rodriguez) Mar 24, 2021
    Show notes

    Anthony Basil Rodriguez is a New York-born independent photographer and filmmaker. Since childhood he has been oriented toward a range of visual worlds. As a teenager, Anthony began to carry around an old film camera that his younger brother had lying around from a school project. Eventually taking his hobby more seriously, Anthony obtained a job pushing carts in order to buy his first digital camera. One day after a thunderstorm he was discovered by a local news station knee-deep in floodwaters collecting photos of the aftermath. He spent the following three years submerged in live television, editing daily newscasts. During this time, he honed and developed a true eye and skill for editing, videography and ultimately storytelling. Since leaving the news industry Anthony has continued to push his craft, interlacing realms of photography, video and film. This work continues to bring Anthony around the world in pursuit of research and documentation of rare plants, disparate peoples and the flux of global society. One of his current projects, Growing Back to Nature, really caught my attention as it features foragers, citizen mycologists and seekers who are trying to carve out a future path based around a more holistic connection with our planet and what it is live more in tune with natural systems.
    TOPICS COVERED:

    • Anthony Discovers a Talent for Visual Media
    • Breaking into Television News Production
    • Childhood Passion for Plants
    • Ethnobotanical Adventures
    • Bananas – The Fruit that Changed the World
    • Worldwide Cultural Influence of the Banana
    • The Jamaican Banana King
    • How Traveling Extensively Changes Us
    • “Growing Back to Nature” Docuseries
    • Influence of William Padilla-Brown
    • Wasteland Rebel and Zero Waste Lifestyle
    • Changes in the Art & Craft of Film in the Social Media Age
    • Power of Storytelling to Shape Society
    • Getting Our Sh** Together Could be Fun

    EPISODE RESOURCES:

    • Anthony Rodriguez Website: https://anthonybrodriguez.com/
    • Anthony Rodriguez IG: https://www.instagram.com/revofthought/
    • Growing Back to Nature Website: https://growingbacktonature.com/
    • Growing Back to Nature IG: https://www.instagram.com/growingbacktonature/
    • "Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World" (Book): https://www.amazon.com/Banana-Fate-Fruit-Changed-World/dp/0452290082
    • "Conquest of the Tropics" (Book): https://www.amazon.com/Conquest-Tropics-Creative-Enterprises-Conducted/dp/0342184768
    • "When the Banana was King" (Book): https://www.amazon.com/When-Banana-Was-King-Jamaican/dp/9768202238
    • William Padilla-Brown Website: https://www.mycosymbiotics.net/
    • Reishi (Mushroom): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingzhi_(mushroom)

    Ep. 74: Terrestrial Fungi - Cordyceps Genetics, Ganoderma Mysteries & Trusting Synchronicity (feat. Ryan Paul Gates) Mar 17, 2021
    Show notes

    Today on Mushroom Hour we are blessed by the presence of Ryan Paul Gates, founder of Terrestrial Fungi. Ryan has spent the last ten+ years collecting and breeding fungal cultures from around the world. The strains he is probably most famous for propagating and breeding are cordyceps and ganoderma mushrooms. Ryan was really an early pioneer at popularizing cordyceps cultivation in the US, exposing us to techniques used from all over the globe. His team at Terrestrial Fungi are constantly hunting and breeding new and improved strains to add to their already staggering genetic library. They are constantly refining our selection process to bring Cordyceps farmers reliable and high yielding potent genetics. In the summer of 2019, they collected over 200 wild Cordyceps militaris ascospore isolates from over 30 carefully selected wild specimens: building their work of releasing the first single ascospore progeny strains of Cordyceps militaris in the USA. A master manifester and elevator of vibration, you can tell Ryan puts the highest intention and care into his work.
    TOPICS COVERED:

    • How Ryan Discovered a Passion for Fungi
    • Falling in Love with Cordyceps
    • Cordyceps militaris Decentralized Knowledge Share
    • Developing Cordyceps militaris Cultivation Techniques
    • Basics of Cordyceps militaris Biology
    • Balancing Open-Source Mentality, Economic Self-Interest and Concepts of Reciprocity
    • Mechanics of Culturing Cordycep militaris Strains and Selecting Genetics
    • Birth of Terrestrial Fungi
    • Rethinking Ganoderma Taxonomy
    • Elucidating Ganoderma lucidum
    • Challenges of Breeding Ganoderma
    • Future Plans for Terrestrial Fungi
    • Advice for Breeding Fungi Strains
    • Guidance from Music, Spirit & Other Organisms in Following the Path of Fungi

    EPISODE RESOURCES:

    • Terrestrial Fungi Website: https://www.terrestrialfungi.com/
    • Terrestrial Fungi IG: https://www.instagram.com/terrestrialfungi/
    • Terrestrial Fungi FB: https://www.facebook.com/TerrestrialFungi/
    • RusticRosette Website: https://www.rusticrosette.com/
    • Shroomery.org: https://www.shroomery.org/
    • Appalachian Gold Fungi: https://www.instagram.com/appalachiangold_fungi/
    • Cordyceps militaris "dendrite" strain (Fungi): https://www.terrestrialfungi.com/products/cordyceps-militaris-dendrite-liquid-culture
    • Dr. Robert Blanchette: http://forestpathology.cfans.umn.edu/Blanchette.htm
    • Google Scholar Cordyceps militaris Research: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=cordyceps+militaris&btnG=
    • Grifola frondosa (Fungi): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grifola_frondosa

    Ep. 73: In Search of Mycotopia - Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics & the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms (feat. Doug Bierend) Mar 09, 2021
    Show notes

    Today we have the honor of speaking with journalist and author Doug Bierend. His new book “In Search of Mycotopia” dives into the neglected mega-science of mycology and introduces readers to the weird and wonderful communities of citizen scientists and microbe devotees who are leading the modern mycological movement. Doug uncovers a diverse cadre of growers, independent researchers, ecologists, entrepreneurs, and amateur enthusiasts, exploring and advocating for fungi’s capacity to improve and heal contaminated landscapes, provide food and medicine, and demonstrate how humans might live better with nature—and one another. The book is told through Doug’s first-hand encounters from the perspective of an embedded reporter drawn to this wonderfully enticing myco-culture This is an exploration of the wild new frontiers of all things mushroom and an inspiring look at the people who are paying attention to what fungi can teach us about the potential for our future. “Mycotopia is already all around us - All we have to do is embrace it.”
    Topics Covered:

    • Journalist Doug's Journey into Mycology
    • Role of Fungi in Planetary and Human Development
    • Overlap of Academia and Citizen Science
    • Community Mycology Labs
    • Connection Between Mycology & a Culture of Aspirational Change
    • How Does Mycology Culture Mirror Other Counter-Culture Movements?
    • Influence of Psychedelic Culture
    • Promise and Realities of Mycoremediation
    • Resilient Future of Mushroom Cultivation
    • Decentralize Everything
    • Maintaining the Integrity of the Mycelium Underground
    • Interspecies Allyship
    • Medicinal Potentials of Fungi
    • How Writing the Book Changed Doug

    Episode Resources:

    • "In Search of Mycotopia": https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/in-search-of-mycotopia/
    • Doug Bierend IG: https://www.instagram.com/dougbierend/
    • "Fungal Biology in the Origin & Emergence of Life": https://www.amazon.com/Fungal-Biology-Origin-Emergence-Life/dp/1107652774
    • Fungal Diversity Survey: https://fundis.org/
    • Craig Trester: https://www.instagram.com/nyc.myc/
    • Christian Schwarz: https://www.instagram.com/biodiversiphile/
    • Bryn Dentinger: https://www.instagram.com/nhmumycology/
    • Radical Mycology: https://www.radicalmycology.com/
    • POC Fungi Community: https://www.instagram.com/pocfungicommunity/
    • New Moon Mycology Summit: https://www.facebook.com/newmoonmycologysummit/
    • Smugtown Mushrooms: https://www.instagram.com/smugtownmushrooms/
    • William Padilla-Brown: https://www.instagram.com/mycosymbiote/

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