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The Mushroom Hour Podcast

Mushroom Hour

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Frequency: 1 episode/11d. Total Eps: 199

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. 183: Cheerful Apocalypse, Biological Abstraction & Creating Art from Within (feat. Stephanie Kilgast)

Season 1 · Episode 183

Sunday, August 18, 2024 • Duration 57:49

GUEST:

MENTIONS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salicornia

MUSHROOM HOUR:

Show Music courtesy of the one and only Chris Peck: https://peckthetowncrier.bandcamp.com/

TOPICS COVERED:

Human Impacts on Nature
Developing a Love of Nature Through Art
Coral and Mushrooms
Biological Abstraction
Scientific Reference Materials
Social Media Dissociation
Short Form Video is Bad for Humans
The Artist’s Dilemna
Finding Your Voice as an Artist
Inspiration from Within
Sanctity of the Sketchbook
Biotechnology and Regenerative Futures

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Ep. 173: Forage. Gather. Feast. - Truffles, Seasonal Harvests & Uncertain Futures (feat. Maria Finn)

Season 1 · Episode 173

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 • Duration 59:47

GUEST:

MENTIONS:

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/The-pirates-of-Sausalito-17160156.php

MUSHROOM HOUR:

Show Music courtesy of the one and only Chris Peck: https://peckthetowncrier.bandcamp.com/

TOPICS COVERED:

Explosion of Mushrooms into the Mainstream
Truffle Farms and Grape Vineyards
Reconnecting with Natural Cycles
Foraging Seasons in Northern California
Reclaiming the Term “Witch”
Nutritional Complexity of Wild Foods
Building Living Soil
Ecological Observation as the First Step in Foraging
Institute for Ecosystem-Based Living
Forage, Gather, Feast
Economics of Ecosystems & Ecosystem Services
Legality of Wild Mushrooms in California
Truffle Renaissance
Building a Wild Pantry

Ep. 83: Eat Weeds - Wild Plant Contemplations, Healing with Foraging & Perspectives in Ethnobotany (feat. Robin Harford)

Season 1 · Episode 83

Thursday, June 3, 2021 • Duration 01:20:44

Today on Mushroom Hour we are graced by the presence of wild food expert and author Robin Harford. Robin is a plant-based forager, ethnobotanical researcher and wild food educator. He has published numerous foraging guidebooks and established his own wild food foraging school in 2008. His foraging courses were recently voted #1 in the UK by BBC Countryfile. Robin is the creator of Eatweeds which is listed in The Times Top 50 websites for food and drink. He has travelled extensively documenting and recording the traditional and local uses of wild food plants in indigenous cultures. His work has taken him to Africa, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and the USA. Robin regularly appears on radio and occasionally on television. His work has been recommended in BBC Good Food magazine, Sainsbury’s magazine as well as in The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph among others.

TOPICS COVERED:

Childhood in the Wilds of the Devon Countryside
Finding Freedom, Questioning Big Brother
Reconnecting with Nature as Somatic Healing
Sensory Method of Plant Identification
Power of Contemplative Practice & Bio-Individualism
Developing Relationship with Wild Plants as a Form of Activism
Finding Perspectives on Anger and Love
Foraging as an Act of Reverence
Processing Trauma & Addiction Through Somatic Experience with Plants
Living Wild Food Tradition of the Roamer Communities in England
In Search of Nomadic Hunter Gatherer Communities
The Oceanic Moken People & Anthropological Diversity
Getting Started Foraging & Preparing Wild Plants
Joining the Eatweeds Community

EPISODE RESOURCES:

Eatweeds Website: https://www.eatweeds.co.uk/
Eatweeds Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/foragingcourses
Frank Cook (Inspiration): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_C._Cook_IV

Ep. 82: Zombie Cicadas, Fungivore Millipedes & Forest Pathology (feat. Dr. Matt Kasson)

Season 1 · Episode 82

Thursday, May 20, 2021 • Duration 01:39:18

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

Ep. 81: Fungi Magazine, Telluride Mushroom Festival & Our Future with Fungi (feat. Britt Bunyard)

Season 1 · Episode 81

Thursday, May 13, 2021 • Duration 01:30:54

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:

Ep. 80: Finding the Mother Tree - Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (feat. Prof. Suzanne Simard)

Season 1 · Episode 80

Tuesday, May 4, 2021 • Duration 01:35:26

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

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

Season 1 · Episode 79

Thursday, April 29, 2021 • Duration 01:31:00

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:

Ep. 78: Oakland Hyphae - First Annual Psilocybin Cup & BIPOC Entheogen Empowerment (feat. Reggie of Oakland Hyphae)

Season 1 · Episode 78

Tuesday, April 20, 2021 • Duration 59:40

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/

Ep. 77: Teaming with Microbes - The Organic Gardener’s Guide To The Soil Food Web (feat. Jeff Lowenfels)

Season 1 · Episode 77

Wednesday, April 14, 2021 • Duration 01:22:16

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":

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