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Cedar Falls Mycology PodcastEpisode #12 "Checking In With Flourish Labs" Featuring Dr. George SellhornGreetings everyone. This is Tim Leavitt from Cedar Falls Mycology, Welcome to Episode 12 of the podcast where we ask ourselves not what the fungi can do for us... but what we can do for the fungi. We also have DR. George Sellhorn here today. Dr. Sellhorn is the co-owner of Flourish Labs in Oregon. Flourish Labs uses HPLC which stands for High-Performance Liquid Chromatography... HPLC is commonly used in chemical analysis and biochemistry, for example, in the analysis of food or environmental samples or drugs.
We are podcasting from The Cedar Falls Tree house in beautiful N...
2025-11-1350 minCedar Falls Mycology PodcastEpisode #11 "Passport to Kingdom Fungi" featuring Dr. Gordon WalkerAlright good people, welcome to episode #11. We have Dr. Fun Guy himself here, Dr. Gordon Walker, here and we're gonna ask him some Theoretical mycology questions ,but first we're gonna talk a little bit about his new book, “Passport to Kingdom Fungi”. So, as the name implies “Passport to Kingdom Fungi” is your gateway to all things Fungi.
The world of mycology is always changing. , every decade or so, one of these really definitive books comes out and lets everybody know kind of where we're at right now as mycologists. And, you know, we really owe the aut...
2025-06-121h 05Cedar Falls Mycology PodcastEpisode #10 Checking In With The Olympic Peninsula Fungi Festival featuring David RogersAlright Good People welcome to episode #10 today we will be discussing the Olympic Peninsula Fungi Festival. This festival promotes discovery.., connection, and community. The festival encourages learning about various mycology topics and brings people together. The festival is held October 18th -19th which is prime mushroom season and is located on the northern end of the Olympic Peninsula, a region renowned for fungi, this festival features lectures,... hands-on workshops,... guided forays,... mushroom cuisine and more from internationally acclaimed experts. There will be live music, a vendors’ market, and even camping. So. no matter where you’re at on your journ...
2025-05-3026 minCedar Falls Mycology PodcastEpisode #9 Growing Wood Loving Psilocybes Featuring Jack CyanGreetings everyone. This is Tim Leavitt from Cedar Falls Mycology, Welcome to the podcast where we ask ourselves not what the fungi can do for us... but what we can do for the fungi. We also have Jack Cyan here via zoom joimig us from Oregon. Jack Cyan is really kind of the quintessential Johnny Appleseed character of the pschedlelic mushroom world atleast around the PNW. Jack runs the wood lovers united FB, This page has 18,000 followers. and is dedicated to distributing information on growing wood loving mushrooms specifically from the genus Psilocybe. In this episode, we’re going to discuss...
2025-05-161h 01Cedar Falls Mycology PodcastEpisode #8 Mushrooms and Witchcraft, "Mushroom Magick" Book review featuring Shawn EngleAll right, good people. Welcome to episode eight. Today we’re gonna talk about the book, Mushroom Magik, thats Magik with a ‘k” written by Shawn Engel. We have Shawn here on the show and we are going to ask her some questions...
But first I’d like to start by telling everyone the book we are discussing is called “ Mushroom Magik” this name does not refer to medicinal mushrooms in a traditional sense, or psychedelic mushrooms. We are talking about mushrooms being used in magic for conjuring and spell casting. Mushrooms have a long history of being a...
2025-05-0237 minCedar Falls Mycology PodcastEpisode #7 Checking in with the DMA featuring Daniel SilbersteinWelcome to the podcast where we ask ourselves not what the fungi can do for us but what we can do for the fungi. I am super excited to have Daniel Silberstein joining us for this episode. Danny is one of the founders of Developments in Mycelium Applications otherwise known as DMA. DMA is a virtual course covering the vast potential of fungi-based solutions and entrepreneurship from experts in the Mycelia realm. Dani is based in Spain; but DMA is a global collaborative project.
2025-03-1537 min
Cedar Falls Mycology PodcastEpisode #6 Checking In Down Under, featuring Caine BarlowGreetings everyone. This is Tim Leavitt from Cedar Falls Mycology, I am super excited to have Caine Barlow joining us for this episode. Caine Barlow is an Australian mycologist. He is a fungi educator, an ethnobotanist, an independent researcher, and a Science Writer based in Melbourne. He regularly gives lectures on mycology as well as fungi conservation, and he teaches gourmet mushroom cultivation. You can find him on the Internet as “Guerrilla Mycology”
On this episode we are going to discuss the fascinating topic of Australian Enthnomycology and entheogenesis.
2025-02-111h 04Cedar Falls Mycology PodcastEpisode #5 Having A Good Trip with Eugenia BoneIn this episode, I’m going to do a quick book review on Eugenia’s newest book. "Have a Good Trip" and then we're going to discuss the fascinating topic of tripping on psychedelic mushrooms.
Some of you may know Eugenia as one of the stars in the movie Fantastic Fungi. She is also responsible for creating the Fantastic Fungi Cookbook that goes along with the movie. She also wrote the book Mycophilia but today we are going to talk about her newest book “Have a Good Trip, Exploring the Magic Mushroom Experience”
2025-01-251h 05Cedar Falls Mycology PodcastEpisode #4 Interview With A Truffle Huntress, Featuring Dawn Meiklejohn In this episode, I'm going to give a mycological introduction to truffles. Then we'll get into some questions with Dawn about truffle hunting, truffle cooking, and then we'll get into some theoretical mycology questions.
2025-01-1148 minCedar Falls Mycology PodcastEpisode # 3 Discussion of Pychedelic TherapyIn this episode, we're going to discuss the fascinating topic of psychedelic therapy.
We will start with some of the questions we can answer...like the legal status of psychedelic therapy... and then we are going ask a few questions that can not be answered. As was mentioned in the intro to episode 1, one of the recurring themes on this show is theoretical mycology by that we mean mycology questions that can not really be answered beyond the point of speculation or opinion
2024-11-2545 minCedar Falls Mycology PodcastEpisode #2 A Brief History Of Psychedelic MushroomsListeners are introduced to the historical mycozooistic relationship that exists between humans and magic mushrooms.
2024-11-0434 minCedar Falls Mycology PodcastEpisode #1 An Introduction To Mushrooms and MycozooismThis first episode introduces listeners to the recurring themes on our show, theoretical mycology, mushrooms and mycozooism.
2024-11-0420 min