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MycoWizardsWill MacHugh and The Shiitake BattlefieldWill MacHugh is a Washington state based mushroom farmer with a long standing background in the world of agriculture. He has grown fast and smart and he has noticed what a lot of us are too busy to do much about...the importation of extremely cheap shiitake logs from China. Will has assembled this website as well as this simple survey ... If you are a mushroom farmer in the US do us all a favor and FILL IT OUT! Together we can level the playing fields and bolster up the emerging domestic industry we have all worked tirelessly to...
2025-05-1648 minMycoWizardsMycoWizards Broadcast Ep: 20In this crazy beautiful world we live in, we forget how connected we are. Who would of thunk that flowers and mushrooms needed each other.. Not I.. But im no Mycologist. In todays episode Erik and Gregor talk about the connection between orchids and mycelium and how to work together to produce one of the most beautiful flowers we know and love.ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more!
2025-03-1912 minMycoWizardsMycoWizards Broadcast Ep: 19And then there was fungi. What's new in the mushroom world? Bipartisan group of Pennsylvania members to re-introduce Bill protecting mushroom farmers. Things in the mushroom capital of the world are shaking up. Work forces, automation and lack there of. We talk about it all in 1 of our two episodes this week!https://www.thecorryjournal.com/news/article_3d006116-facd-11ef-8c71-4f03cfe38818.htmlALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space a...
2025-03-1714 minMycoWizardsMycoWizards Broadcast Ep: 18Leaving brown town and cruising towards ultra violet summer. What to do with cauliflower lions and why UV water filtration is a thing you should do!IF YOU WANT TO BE ENTERED TO WIN ONE OF OUR GIVEAWAYS, GO TO https://mycowizards.com/join_us AND BECOME A MEMBER AT ANY LEVEL! SHIRTS, MERCH, AGAR AND LIQUID CULTURES ARE UP FOR GRABS TO ALL MYCOWIZARDS SUBSCRIBERS!!!Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Send us a textSupport the show
2025-03-1213 minMycoWizardsMycoWizards Broadcast Ep: 17How do you say mushroom in french? They won't take husbands, but they will take farmers. Trust us, we tried. Also, buttons are better in other places. Apparently an infinite growth mindset does bad things to crops. Weird.IF YOU WANT TO BE ENTERED TO WIN ONE OF OUR GIVEAWAYS, GO TO https://mycowizards.com/join_us AND BECOME A MEMBER AT ANY LEVEL! SHIRTS, MERCH, AGAR AND LIQUID CULTURES ARE UP FOR GRABS TO ALL MYCOWIZARDS SUBSCRIBERS!!!Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!
2025-03-1014 minMycoWizardsMycoWizards Broadcast Ep: 16So we failed Mechanical Dedikaryotization. But that wont stop us! Today we talk with Gregor Jones about his findings and what we can improve on as we take the next steps in our fungal journey!ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more!USE CODE CNS30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREEIF YOU WANT TO BE ENTERED TO WIN ONE OF OUR GIVEAWAYS, GO TO https://mycowizards.com/j...
2025-02-2613 minMycoWizardsMycoWizards Broadcast Ep: 15What are mushrooms good for if not a final resting place? take a took at one of this weeks episodes where Erik and Mike chat about the many uses for these funny shapes of water we call mushrooms!ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more!USE CODE CNS30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREEIF YOU WANT TO BE ENTERED TO WIN ONE OF OUR GIVEAWAYS, GO TO h...
2025-02-2415 minMycoWizardsMycoWizards Broadcast: Ep14Tumultuous tariffs and other manure. Today's broadcast is all about poor leadership decisions from the top and how/why farmers need some buttressing for their sh*t umbrellas and a red ribbon road of loopholes to cartwheel through just to stay afloat. Beware the suits and grow your fruits, fam.ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more!USE CODE CNS30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREEIF YOU W...
2025-02-1914 minMycoWizardsMycoWizards Broadcast: Ep13Do you have a good Morel code? We like to think we do. Or at least we know of folks who do... Murder, mayhem and corporate tomfoolery abound in todays broadcast all about the mighty morel and how yes, you can cultivate them if you happen to be a pair of Norwegian twin genius'. This and more, including our first t-shirt GIVEAWAY!!!ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more!USE C...
2025-02-1717 minMycoWizardsMycoWizards Broadcast: Ep 12When you ask, We answer! tune information our second broadcast this week where Erik and Daniel hash out some basic ideas and answers to supplementation for our friends around the world and in the states! Mead! Aliens with middle fingers! Daniels exhaustion, the whole thing and a bag of chips.ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more!USE CODE CNS30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREEIF YOU W...
2025-02-1216 minMycoWizardsMycoWizards Broadcast: Ep11And then there was space! come check out one of this weeks episodes with Gregor Jones! We talk NASA. We talk Space. We talk about things that don't belong in our face. Just kidding. ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more!USE CODE CNS30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREEIF YOU WANT TO BE ENTERED TO WIN ONE OF OUR GIVEAWAYS, GO TO https://my...
2025-02-1013 minMycoWizardsHighland Fungi: David MedlockDavid Medlock of Highland Fungi has been sending me the most incredible papers and research articles on all things fungi over the entirety of 2024. He has an unwavering dedication to obsessively digging for details to generate solutions to extremely complicated issues in the cultivation of the 5th kingdom. With a background in all things fabrication David engineers solutions around the problems we all eventually encounter while growing commercial amounts of mushrooms. His detailed observations of the chaos and outlined mis-steps, allow him to map as he toils over the complex variations of options while working towards the Eureka moments...
2025-02-071h 58MycoWizardsMycoWizards Broadcast: Ep10A royal pardon for the founder of the Silk Road. What could it mean? What new precedent has been set? What do we know? Not much, but tune in and find out anyway.ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more!USE CODE CNS30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREECREEP OVER TO OUR PODCAST AS WELL TO HEAR WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO LATELY https://mycowizards.buzzsprout.com
2025-02-0514 minMycoWizardsMycoWizards Broadcast: Ep9Tony Bag-of-Donuts should not be in charge of shipping. Today the boys chat about the importance of refrigerated shipping and why CNS ain't here to ship it dry! Its bodies in bags, cellular death, overheated trash and more of that good Doom you've come to love!ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more!USE CODE CNS30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREEIF YOU WANT T...
2025-02-0316 minMycoWizardsMycoWizards Broadcast: Ep8Like a bad idea, mushrooms can grow anywhere and on anything... and apparently anyone? From amphibians to your dorm room wallpaper, if conditions are right, the mycelial network will adopt your components and make them their own! Learn more about this weirdness in today's episode and stay tuned for more giveaways!ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more!USE CODE CNS30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREEIF Y...
2025-01-2914 minMycoWizardsMycoWizards Broadcast: Ep7Can you eat Chestnut mushrooms and poop gold? Or maybe still it down and cure cancer in mice? We don't know but we're figuring it out in this beautiful Monday broadcast! So grab your pets and some tasty mushrooms cause it's gunna be a messy ride!https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35363110/ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more!USE CODE CNS30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREE
2025-01-2717 minMycoWizardsOpen Fung: Phil RossPhil Ross is a legend in the bay area myco-space. If you don’t know him, I suggest you start with the first video that really propelled Phil and the idea of myco-materials into the world entitled "Built With the Cleanest Technology on Earth: Nature" … Within this short video made only eight years ago, the fungal-bug that had and continues to bite us all is ever-present. It shows the possibilities, asks the questions and proceeds to answer only what the knowledge of the time had to offer. From an outsider's perspective, it has been a mad-dash to the “goldmine” of “myco...
2025-01-241h 47MycoWizardsMycoWizards Broadcast: Ep6The follies of those fallen to the orange reaper; neurospora. Generalization vs. Specialization, who wins that particular apocalypse? Don't put all your eggs in one super sack, the rolling giveaways continue! These talking points and more, on today's MycoWizards Broadcast.ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more!USE CODE POD30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREESend us a textSupport the showBecome A My...
2025-01-2218 minMycoWizardsMycoWizards Broadcast: Ep5Around the States in 80... mushroom festivals. The epoch of shroomie industry that sprang this phenomenon into being, what its like being recognized out in the world, navigating a jet-setting livelihood while being married to a farm, flow hood giveaway and more!ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more!USE CODE CNS30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREESend us a textSupport the showBecome A...
2025-01-2014 minMycoWizardsMycoWizards Broadcast: Ep4R.I.P. capnstem Instagram account. Mike and Erik talk about what it the meta verse has done to us and many mushroom farms alike and what we can do moving forward to combat and rebel against the powers that be!ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more!USE CODE POD30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREECREEP OVER TO OUR PODCAST AS WELL TO HEAR WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP...
2025-01-1508 minMycoWizardsMycoWizards Broadcast: Ep3This broadcast from the secret lair brings you the cordy culture mafia, gatecrashing gatekeepers, Militaris tides a' rising and one dazed and confused co-host.Bespoke scientific article here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gxqBeIbpvyYTtMGPyu3yiw2vimbfPIfd/view?usp=sharingALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more!USE CODE MYCO30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREECREEP OVER TO OUR PODCAST AS WELL TO HEAR WHAT WE...
2025-01-1410 minMycoWizardsMadCap Mushrooms: Blake and LindseyThe mythical Ween-loving duo of MadCap Mushrooms, Blake and Lindsey, jammed gears from the cold mountains of Vermont over to the blistery doom of Maine for what started as a tour of Cap N Stem and turned into a fully fledged podcast recording session! This podcast was recorded using the antiquated old mics from our earliest episodes, lending a quality we have always shot for. If you have ever been on a podcast you know the magic of the mic, the boom arm, the headphones and the perceived audience...the set and setting...it all opens up the doors...
2025-01-102h 25MycoWizardsMycoWizards Broadcast: Ep2Deadly fungi and disinformation debunking is on the table for this episode of Broadcasts. News media sensationalizing a bummer story while demonizing a substance that wasn't even at the party.ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more!USE CODE MYCO30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREECREEP OVER TO OUR PODCAST AS WELL TO HEAR WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TOO LATELY https://mycowizards.buzzsprout.comSend us...
2025-01-0813 minMycoWizardsMycoWizards Broadcast: Ep1WELCOME ONE AND ALL To the first episode in our new MycoWizards News segment! In this episode we discuss what's new in the realm of organic certification and what that means for new mushroom farmers, old mushroom farmers and dog food food producers alike. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/12/23/2024-30211/national-organic-program-market-development-for-mushrooms-and-pet-foodSee the video broadcast over on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/PAQUwAe0xnM ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and i...
2025-01-0715 minMycoWizardsWumbo GeneticsOne of the best parts about 2024's mushroom festival jaunt was running into Max of @wumbogenetics at the @farwestfungievents and the @okmushroomfestival ... Max is on a mission from fungi, dedicated to perpetually developing a suite of myco-products, refining a variety of lab processes and protocols as well building connections in the cultivation community. The hustle it takes to get into any specialization of the fungi industry is an intense one and Max is carving a multitude of pathways in directions directly connected to his curiosities; from myco-papers to vegan Japanese mushroom dishes and every microscopy angle accessible, Wumbo Genetics...
2024-12-271h 53MycoWizardsDr. Sara Webb: Mycelium In MicrogravityThe last thing I thought we'd be involved in when I first started cultivated mushrooms was sending phenotypes to space! If I step back and assess how we got here it absolutely blows my mind. Many mushrooms farmers, many entrepreneurs in general, have a solid sense of imposter syndrome...but here we are, It's 2024 and we are awaiting the arrival of three commercial mushroom phenotypes after a trip to the extraterrestrial space above our mighty green planet. For a couple of months now these phenotypes have hitched a ride on the ISS up there in the void and soon...
2024-12-131h 02MycoWizardsFlying Saucer Farms: Clint JurekClint Jurek of Flying Saucer Farms has cultivated, conquered, fulfilled the desire and is on his way out of the mycological world! It’s always a challenge to accurately describe just how wild and intense the rampant growth rate of decentralized mushroom cultivators in the US has been. From 2008 until today the number of “commercial cultivators” within the US has grown by 5000% or more. Flying Saucer Farms was right there in the middle of this explosion, spurred on by much more than an Amadou Hat and a Ted Talk. This growth has happened before in the US and world at lar...
2024-11-291h 40MycoWizardsSno Valley Mushrooms: Will LockmillerIt’s easy to get pulled into the groundswell of hyper fixated myco-nerds at a mushroom festival. At some point after this conversation you are about to hear, Will Lockmiller of Sno Valley Mushrooms, Roger Rabbit and Robert Rogers, collected myself and Danielle Stevenson to go join Will and his partner for dinner at an obscure and hidden gem of an Olympic Peninsula Mexican Restaurant. Will and myself went down all of the mycological avenues and industry gossip like wolves in a rabbit den until we looked up to see everyone else a little more quiet than us. RR sp...
2024-11-151h 49MycoWizardsTiger Sawgill: Thomas RoehlLentinus Tigrinus AKA the "Tiger Sawgill" mushroom is something that has fascinated a handful of mycologists for a long stretch of time. From a fungal evolutionary standpoint, it is a mushroom with a long stretch of phylogenetic-flux. The current fruitbodies develop as a rather straight forward "agaricoid" form while simultaneously exhibiting a "secotioid" morphology within the same phenotypes. If you look back far enough into Lentinus' ever evolving phylogeny you'll find Lentinus Tigrinus is a polypore relative thanks to the postdoc work of Dr. Alexander Bradshaw...This past summer I was asked to talk at Northspore's "Mycology Outside" event...
2024-11-011h 15MycoWizardsDedikaryotization: Gregor JonesWe have spent an incredible amount of time thus far tearing into our infamously high yielding commercial dikaryons to develop a gourmet monokaryon culture bank here at Cap N Stem. The goal at the end of the day is to understand these monokaryons on a deeper level and to develop new breeding programs. Last week we launched our expansive episode on the process of mechanical dedi-kary-ot-ization over at mycowizards.com and this week we figured we would release an entire conversation on the topic between Sir Gregor Jones and Erik Lomen to bridge the gap between the audiophiles and...
2024-10-1847 minMycoWizardsNorth Spore: Eliah ThanhauserIt took over a decade but I finally got the chance to sit down with Eliah Thanhauser of North Spore and discuss our long and interwoven histories in the Maine mushroom industry. North Spore has excelled in so many things through their explosive growth in the myco-sphere. Co-evolving alongside of them has been an amazing ride full of insight and challenges and tales for days! While Eliah and I just scratch the surface on a variety of topics, we had an audience to keep in mind as we sat among the most amazing fungal-fanatics at this years Mycology Outside...
2024-10-042h 01MycoWizardsMyCoLove FarmBecome A MycoWizard today at www.mycowizards.com!Shane Schoolman and Michael Heim are going wild in the game of mushroom-extracts. Dual Extraction What???? Soxhlet Who???? They had me at Cordy-Crystals and Gnar-Tar, never-mind their in depth exploration of ultrasonically extracted myco-molecules suspended in cavitation bubbles. A few weeks after recording this weeks MycoWizards episode I hobbled into Cap N Stem's HQ groggy, redeyed and destined for the endless drip of black coffee, but much to my surprise a nice array of alcohol and glycerin based MyCoLove extracts were sitting on a rolling rack in front of m...
2024-09-202h 41MycoWizardsOM MushroomsThe age old tale, or so it seems in these fast moving times seems to be Mycelium vs. Fruitbodies ... but what if you simple added both into your products, built out and followed through with scientific studies for publication and actually collected data after proceeding to test, test and test again. Steve and Sam of OM Mushrooms have been doing just that and growing fast into the myco-obsessed market over the last 5 years. But their stories didn't begin just half a decade ago. Steve Farrar and Sam Andrasko (aka: Lipa of The Shroomery) sat down with us at their...
2024-05-311h 57MycoWizardsTraveling Cap Mushroom CompanyRound about two years ago the entire Cap N’ Stem crew hosted a massive bonfire at our newly acquired property in Lewiston. Many joined in the insanity, many bailed, motorcycles broke down, did burnouts or wrecked into dark Maine gullies, but the fire raged on and the partying continued through to the next morning! One of the most mysterious characters to show, arrived in a feathered bowler hat with a grin soaked in mycological-stoke…you know the kind of smile, paired with those slightly sunken in eyes that say, “I’ve been up for 5 days straight knocking in front of...
2024-04-262h 33MycoWizardsJulian Mattucci (Imperial Scientific & Imperial Labs)Julian Mattucci, also know as @dedikaryotizationdaddy is a dedicated researcher and a talented mycologist. He has been in the throws of some of the more nerdy but important breeding work in the wild word of mushrooms. I came across his Dedikaryotization Protocol via a shroomery post offered up by the one and only @alan_rockefeller a few months back. Julian's work is focused on the development of a haploid culture bank for the purpose of getting folks into breeding his collection of isolates. From Dedikaryotization to DNA Sequencing and 3D Printing, Julian is a myco-engineer through and through ... If...
2024-04-081h 09MycoWizardsColumbia Mushroom In 2024 (Neil Brent)Welcome back the mighty Neil Brent of Columbia Mushrooms! There are a million and one hilarious things that can be said about Neil, but this batshit hero to the cultivation crowd knows how to grow gourmet mushrooms like the best of them. What I appreciate most about Neil is his split dedication to the stoke and the stone cold assessments of any given situation, object or attempt to avoid a phone call, delicately entwined with all the dark humor one might hope to muster in a lifetime. Japan, as a country, knows who Neil is and so should you...
2024-03-291h 52MycoWizardsMighty Cap MushroomsMike and I ripped up the coast of California towards the never-ending boarder-lands between the sandy dunes of the hot as hell desert and the perfectly temperate pacific blue until we came to the land of Mighty Cap Mushrooms in Paso Robles. Chris and Branden emerged from the first expansion of Mighty Cap, a super clean and well organized grow, to give us a tour around. There are two personalities that can compliment one another in an extremely beneficial way in this industry and Chris and Branden are a perfect example of this. Chris can sell, talk and engage w...
2024-03-152h 21MycoWizardsHamilton MorrisShortly before deciding to take the leap into commercial gourmet mushroom cultivation, I stumbled across a video of a young Hamilton Morris reporting on Magic Truffles in Amsterdam for Vice News. In this video Hamilton visits a farm that had to quickly pivot away from fruit body production and into sclerotia forming p. tampanensis cultivation sometime around 2008 due to the prohibition of magic mushrooms by the Dutch government. Years before the ban on the actual fruitbodies, my childhood friend Ken and I entered the Netherlands as naive American stoners and exited through a one way portal into another dimension. L...
2024-03-051h 09MycoWizardsKM Mushrooms (Amanda Janney)Some of our favorite mushroom cultivators are of old punk origins. You know the ones, strapped and packed with an array of patches, CDs, books and leftover dinner all in that high resting backpack rippin’ uphill on a fixed gear or in deteriorating ox-blood doc martens hopping rails and riding free atop the boxcars dead set on the western sunsets. They stand for experience and true freedom in this land of insanity. Their Ginsberg-ian will to be weird projects outward in the most endearing way as does their smile and their outspoken nature when it’s most needed. The...
2024-03-012h 55MycoWizardsFar West Fungi (Kyle Garrone)Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Try to get Kyle Garrone to talk about anything but growing mushrooms and the emerging world of contemporary cultivators and it will ultimately snap back to mushrooms like an elastic band to itself. The draw and intrigue is too intense for the majority of us to stray far from. We stay up late into the dark hours contemplating pneumatic movements for saving time a...
2024-02-161h 54MycoWizardsMarc R Keith vs. Ferry CountyBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! There were many things racing through my head when I first met Roger Rabbit, the OG king of Shroomery.org! But an almost decade long battle to get his stolen land back in Malo, WA was not one of them. I’ve spent the better part of two years in conversations with Marc, going back and forth from the east coast to the west coast, rid...
2024-02-022h 10MycoWizardsSon and SkyeEric Pearson of Son and Skye is a myco-farmers dead set on the details of cultivation. His interests exist within the systems, controllers and concepts for keeping rooms regulated and running in the intense heat and humidity of the Florida summers. While his farm is small and seemingly off grid in its appearance, the dials are finely tuned and honed in on simplicity which leaves breathing room for actually enjoying the fine art of cultivation. A lot of us who have grow our mushroom businesses past the point of no return with partners, loans, mortgages, grants and stretches of...
2023-12-291h 44MycoWizardsRoger Rabbit (Marc R Keith) At The OP Fungi FestivalBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! On two wheeled deathtraps through fall sun showers and ever changing scenery, RR and myself sped north from the base of the Olympic Peninsula under a solar eclipse, all the way up to Port Angeles for the 2023 OP Fungi Fest. All red eyed and road stoked our aim was to give the old school shroomery fans exactly what they wanted, 2 hours of tall tales and de...
2023-12-151h 48MycoWizardsMushroom Maggie's FarmBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! The first time I met Cyrus Lester of Mushroom Maggie's, I had no concept of the entire story behind such a genuine and bright human. All I knew after a couple of days showing Cyrus around Maine and NH was that it would be imperative to get him and Maggie onto MycoWizards. The story of Maggie and Cyrus is a wild one from the g...
2023-12-012h 08MycoWizardsMyCo PlanetBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! It's easy to start something, It's another thing to carry it forward through time and space as it grows and morphs and develops its own definition of limbs allowing for an observed sense of autonomy. Sometimes we refer to this as making a Monster, building an Entity, generating Something larger than oneself. Regardless of scale, mushroom farms today fit into one of two categories, there ar...
2023-11-171h 29MycoWizardsCactus Hat MushroomsBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Joseph Iovino is a man sculpted from pure badassery! From fire fighting, to actual fighting to mushroom cultivation. The man was a myth before Daniel and myself rolled on down to his neck of the woods to record this interview. I had heard a lot about Joe over the years and it proved one thing, everyone was full of shit in their attempts to describe s...
2023-11-032h 03MycoWizardsFox Farm & Forage (Amy Fox)Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! It was 2015 and in a flash I was kicked off Facebook, for reasons I suspect originated with my being on the terrorist-watch-list after starting numerous Food Not Bombs Chapters across New England throughout my anarchistic youth. The constant ding of the notification bells for the newly formed and overactive CMGN was no more. A couple years later for some unknown reason I was let b...
2023-10-062h 19MycoWizardsMushroom Revival (Alex Dorr)Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! There were only a few folks who initially went head over heals cultivating cordyceps in the US back in the early 2000's and Alex Dorr of Mushroom Revival was one of them! Now with a full line of mushroom health related products, a brand new book and a booming podcast, Alex has transcended beyond his humble beginnings and entered into a world where feeding the m...
2023-10-021h 54MycoWizardsDaniel Ashley (East Coast MycoWizards Tour Recap)Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! It happened in a flash, we were out one master of the media and I knew I was not going to edit my own voice and videos for all the MycoWizard's out there! (no one can stand their own voice, can they!?) I remember we were on our way back from the El Diablo Run in Mexico, so I had a good 3500 miles to think t...
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Mushroom Revival PodcastRunning a Mushroom Farm with Erik Lomen of Maine Cap N' StemMaine Cap N Stem Started in 2014 cultivating a variety of gourmet mushrooms from spore to store, then became the first national producer and distributor of Certified Organic Mushroom Substrate for small and large farms across the continental USA. We crack a beer with the founder and dive into some funny stories about navigating the wild world of mushroom farming. Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next winner will be selected on October 30, 2023 and contacted via email.www.mushroomrevival.comWe are a functional mushroom company and make 100% certified USDA Organic and V...
2023-09-261h 20MycoWizardsMycopreneur (Dennis Walker)Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! This is our first go interviewing someone a bit outside of the cultivation sphere, but our guest today has a lot of experience conversating with cultivators and other "myco-preneur's" from around the globe. Today we bring to you Dennis Walker of the Mycopreneur Podcast! He has seemingly endless personas to sell the idea that everything is being sold to you in the mushroom and p...
2023-09-181h 31MycoWizardsMaddies Mushrooms (OP Fungi Festival)Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Maddies mushrooms is a small, family run, gourmet mushroom farm in the northwest corner of Washington state. David and family decided to begin mushroom farming after the birth of their daughter Maddie in 2020. Their family has always been very passionate about eating healthy local food. Seeing a void for fresh mushrooms in the area they were excited to try and help bring a variety of g...
2023-09-081h 08MycoWizardsSam Shoemaker (MycoMyco)Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Sam Shoemaker, what a dude after my own heart. When you are born with an art brain and have an art background, you simply cannot help but look at life and all of your undertakings through that creative brain lens...and thank goodness! The world would be a lot more dull without the art nerd factor, there would be no MycoWizards and there would be n...
2023-09-013h 07MycoWizardsCultivating Shiitake MushroomsBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! While we have a million and one new interviews with all the greatest cultivators from around the globe coming your way, we figured why not release some detailed mycological nerdiness to please the masses in between interview releases! We get so many questions in our inboxes and some stick out, eventually this will lead to a regular Q&A series as part of the MycoWizards Po...
2023-08-251h 06MycoWizardsKennett Square Specialties (Lou Caputo)Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Straight from the mushroom capital of the world, we bring you a sit down with Lou Caputo, the main man behind Kennett Square Specialties. From cleaning fruit rooms, to running around with a generator during power outages, he's done it all. He is leaving a generational imprint on this beautiful mess we know as the mushroom industry. Follow along on this journey with us a...
2023-08-111h 41MycoWizardsLittle Acre Gourmet MushroomsBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Mickey from Little Acre Gourmet Mushrooms out of little ol Australia got gifted the ultimate dream of any emerging mushroom cultivator, a paid for trip around the globe visiting every farm he could possibly hit along the way. Over the last few months Mickey and his partner Amy have made their way from Singapore to Japan and China, through Europe and the e...
2023-06-122h 39MycoWizardsMycoWizards News With Shrooms Of DoomBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Oh my, oh my, the time has come to do this MycoWizards thing for REAL! We are loading up on cameras and gear to make two tours of the US this summer and record with some of the best cultivators in the industry…Roger Rabbit Episode Two you say?! You fucking know it! We have so much on the horizon that we are...
2023-06-0924 minMycoWizardsWild FruitingsBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! I think I'd like to be the person that warns his friends about the addictive nature of commercial mushroom cultivation, but instead I seem to just increase the insanity and the stoke with all the power of the doom! This is the case for one Sean Mulkern, Cap N Stems very first employee. After traveling a great many miles from coast to coast h...
2023-03-172h 24MycoWizardsFallen Oak MycologyBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Josh Googins of the one and only Fallen Oak Mycology is a man on a mission. A Mushroom cultivator driven by more than just supplying food to a system. Josh aims to bring a biotech element to his company that is currently based out of the down and dirty diddy that is Austin City! Josh has style and there is an element to h...
2023-01-133h 02MycoWizardsMarc R. Keith: Roger RabbitBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Where did it all begin I asked Marc R Keith...picking up a hitch hiker to score some dope exactly 50 years ago, Marc told me...and the tale goes on from there...50 years later Marc is bound to the west coast while he forges ahead through a 7 year battle to get back his property from backwoods thieves who forged every document imaginable to kick t...
2022-12-162h 55MycoWizardsThe Road To Roger RabbitBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! The road to finding the magical, mystical hero of a mycological OG that is Marc R Keith (Roger Rabbit) has been a wild one. We all have a bit of interloper syndrome in this life, especially when we are searching for someone we admire, someone who has been integral in getting us going, someone who possessed that nugget of info we needed to c...
2022-12-0937 minMycoWizardsSmallholdBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! And just like that! WE ARE BACK! We have a lot of plans for the future of the Mycowizards Podcast and we are stoked to unroll it all slow and low like Texas style smoked meat! There are whispers in the Buck65 wind spreading rumors of @heymikevance and @shroomsodoom getting into a van with a carefully curated suitcase straight out of Fear A...
2022-07-152h 33MycoWizardsDunk's Mushroom Products & ForagingBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! In another life, Dunk and I most likely crossed paths or perhaps we just ripped on two wheeled death traps up and down the same rugged streets of towns north of Boston. While he was running wild in the outlaw motorcycle scene, I was documenting and painting clandestine poets up and down the North Shore. There is a common thread that brings people to mycology a...
2022-02-183h 47MycoWizardsMaine Fungi FestBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! BONUS EPISODE ALERT!Maine Fungi Fest will be happening in Portland on May 14th, 2022. That’s coming up really fast! Tyler Crawford and Erik Lomen will be presenting a talk on commercial cultivation techniques and systems with a Q&A section. This conversation was recorded with the festival's organizer Jonathan Leavitt. Jonathan is an artist, a performer and a really talented mus...
2022-02-0459 minMycoWizardsAron GonsalvesBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Aron Gonsalves and I go back to the beginning in this conversation. We recorded one evening at his farm house in southern Maine, almost empty and fully packed up, as he and his wonderfully kind wife Laura were about to embark on a journey to their new home with new beginnings in mind, down south away from the frozen north. Aron is a hustler, a...
2022-01-214h 15MycoWizardsHiFi MycologyBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Cory Nellissen of HiFi Mycology has unbounded devotion to the exploration of his mycological endeavors. The study and systematization of mushroom cultivation demands patience, a quality one must possess in spades to make a go at the commercial cultivation game. Some days it feels like competition is closing in and other days it feels like you are in an oasis all of your own creation a...
2022-01-073h 10MycoWizardsMossy Creek MushroomsBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Andrew Collier Reed: I’m fascinated by these radical myco-cats know by 3 names and there are a few...I know it’s largely a facebook phenomenon, but every time I heard his name mentioned, years before we had a solid back and forth, I heard all three names, like an ancient elder-futhark chant of sorts...and Andrew, he is an ancient soul, glued to ru...
2021-12-243h 12MycoWizardsPlay Of Sunlight MushroomsBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! I’d assume Satchmo was one hell of a zen-calm yet lively jazz-wizard roaming the Americas and Europe like a madman on the horn through the 30s and 40s making myths in all the world’s clandestine clubs and dark alleyways, where spirit infused music spilled into the streets like smiles and wine. If I were to try to express who Josh Saul is to me an...
2021-12-102h 17MycoWizardsBluff City FungiBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Only one Instagram account can rival @dunksmushrooms in fungal beauty and that's @bluffcityfungi . For Scott Avery Lisenby it's a family affair and the sincerity at the heart of his farm is alive and well in every way imaginable. Scott's got the drive and the focus of all great fungi-wizards, building his Memphis farm from the ground up inspired by innovation and pure hustle. In our c...
2021-11-262h 34MycoWizardsFoggy Dew FungiBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Brendan Linnane started Foggy Dew Fungi with a similar sentiment to most emerging mycologically minded business owners. It comes in stages, first as a spark, the visual and written volumes of seemingly ancient information available on an entire kingdom you never learned about in school appearing like an apparition one day and turning into an obsession overnight. You chase down new texts and old, s...
2021-11-121h 36MycoWizardsFour Star MushroomsBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! When Joe Weber started his Chicago based farm, Four Star Mushrooms, he held a deep fascination and interest in naturally occurring ecological systems, with their dialed in intricacies holding fast in this disposable world. The development of man-made-machines with algorithmic methodologies syncopated to deep human observations into naturally occurring organizations have bred some of the most stable, vertically integrated food systems possible in this fast g...
2021-10-292h 22MycoWizardsWoodland Jewel MushroomsBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Season 2 Episode 2: A lot of artists, musicians and farmers have a common thread in their development of place and space and the construction, deconstruction, expansion and contraction of many 4 walled rooms to fill very particular roles in the generation of their creations. Norman Fetter of Woodland Jewel seems to fit in this category of a person who delineates space for multi-potentiality fr...
2021-10-152h 47MycoWizardsTyler CrawfordBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Season Two Episode One: Tyler Crawford, the Wizard of Spawn production at Cap N Stem has been with us for quite a few years now. Hailing from Connecticut or Canada or Both, you’ll most likely find him expressing his wildness hiking the highest peaks of New England and Beyond like a young Frater Perdurabo inbetwixt mycological research and development at the Shroom Of...
2021-10-011h 28MycoWizardsEarth Angel MushroomsBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! TR Davis of @earthangelmushrooms hustles and his enthusiasm for this specialty gourmet mushroom industry is as strong as ever. Over the last decade I've had the pleasure of watching TR grow Earth Angel Mushrooms starting with his early days on the scene of CMGN, an exclusive network of Commercial Mushroom Farmers dedicated to this craft. It's hard to describe how much TR has helped to p...
2021-05-141h 58MycoWizardsMile High FungiBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Michael and Liz Nail of Mile High Fungi are one of those amazingly connected couples that has been able to power through the development and growth of a mushroom business with a finely focused scope that holds true to the ebb and flow between hard work and enjoying life by keeping their mycological enterprise seasonal. Now with a kiddo in the picture their field of v...
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The Thriving Farmer PodcastErik Lomen on Innovating Mushroom CultivationHave you ever considered a fun alternative to traditional farming? Fungi, that is! Joining us today on the Thriving Farmer Podcast is the founder of Maine Cap N’ Stem, Erik Lomen. Maine Cap N’ Stem started in 2014, cultivating a variety of gourmet mushrooms from spore to store below the streets of Portland Maine. Within a year, their fresh mushroom production expanded from less than 200 sq ft to a 3,000 sq ft facility in Westbrook, Maine. In 2016, Maine Cap N’ Stem decided to drop out of the fresh mushroom market altogether and work directly with farms all across the countr...
2021-04-271h 02MycoWizardsCascadia MushroomsBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Alex Winstead of Cascadia Mushroom is a steadfast gourmet mushroom cultivator from way back! A true myco-nerd and hero in the world of traditional mushroom setups, employing the use of ribbon mixers, pneumatic baggers, autoclaves and semi-complicated environmental controls from the era before House Of Hydro and InkBird. I have personally been 'stalking' the progress of Cascadia since ~2011, as Alex had several quality youtube mini-docs ou...
2021-04-161h 58MycoWizardsBrooks WordenBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Brooks Worden is an old soul survivor of the New England winter turned West Coast dweller. His fascination for mycology has brought him to the reaches of this weird planet since the early 2000's. Brooks and I just missed one another back around 2010 in the Southwest of the States as I was departing Arizona and he was cruising into Aloha Medicinal's internship program. At that t...
2021-04-021h 30MycoWizardsLisa PixleyBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Lisa Pixley is an immeasurably amazing human. She is a professional printmaker, forager and wellspring of knowledge you wish you had on hand! She is one of the founders of Maine Cap N' Stem, if not the catalyst for its inception and our forward momentum into this industry. The lines might be a lil beer-blurry in regards to our first conversation about growing mushrooms after m...
2021-03-191h 53MycoWizardsUnicorn BagsBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Garrett Wilkerson is the mycological meme-master and man behind the fast growing social media presence of Unicorn Bags. His genuine and intense stoke on all things mushroom related is nothing short of inspirational. He is on an innovation quest in the name of sustainability for mycology and while he may not be fully aware of it, his meme's are a breath of fresh air in th...
2021-03-052h 19MycoWizardsDetroit Mushroom CompanyBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Brian McShane and Randen Syjut are the myco-masterminds behind Detroit Mushroom Company. Brian and I hadn't officially caught up before this conversation so it was delightful to riff on topics of hip hop, mushrooms, motorcycles for 4 hours. It's amazing and inspiring to hear how much respect Brian has for the folks in this industry. He seems naturally cued into the mycologists who are making commercial mus...
2021-02-194h 15MycoWizardsColumbia Mushroom CompanyBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! What can I say about Neil Brent, king-myco-mad-man of the west coast? Well, I can say for certain I thought he was from the east coast, which is a huge compliment in my book, given our propensity for dark humor, blunt statements and strong whiskey....but seriously, Neil is a huge asset to the commercial mushroom world, he's got the focus, drive and innovative spirit o...
2021-02-051h 13MycoWizardsNew Hampshire Mushroom CompanyBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Eric Milligan is a humble man of many talents! I'm extremely stoked to call him a friend and even more stoked to bring everyone this hilarious conversation we had a few weeks back! Check out www.nhmushrooms.com and give them a follow on the platforms of social media! ENJOY!Send us a textSupport the showBecome A My...
2021-01-223h 58MycoWizardsNearby NaturalsBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! In our very first episode I chat it up with Sam and Soraya of Nearby Naturals out of Orlando Florida. Check them out at www.nearbynaturalsfl.com Send us a textSupport the showBecome A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!
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