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Around 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!

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R.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!

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This broadcast from the secret lair brings you the cordy culture mafia, gatecrashing gatekeepers, Militaris tides a' rising and one dazed and confused co-host.

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The 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 to story-telling magick! Blake and Lindsey's origin story is steeped in a tea of youthful expansions and contractions from and back to the lands of their birth to the farthest reaches that one must go to find whatever it is one is dead set on discovering in this life. But in the end, it all comes back to the dawn of a joint obsession...mushrooms bursting from all corners of an enclosed living space until the spores replaced the notion of breathable air...this is their gift...as they consume our notions of a life without them, until all we can do is feed their need to be cultivated and consumed! In the end, the mushrooms get what the mushrooms want! So follow along, for this weeks MycoWizards episode is sure to offer some familiarity in the launch, the take over and the plans for expansion! 

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Deadly 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.

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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-food

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One 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 is keeping it fresh and exciting. Check him out and follow his work HERE!

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The 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 they return for laboratory investigation. Dr. Sara Webb is the amazing astrophysicist who got this project rolling by working with students to define and get a project off the ground, literally, and into space. While many questions still remain as to what will be discovered by bringing these organisms into and out of orbit, there is hope that fungi can be used in many different facets of space exploration, from food to building materials and everywhere in between. For all the footage from this project and conversation head on over to MycoWizards.com and check out all the great work Sara is up to at sarawebbscience.com

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Clint 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 large, but so much has changed since the last myco-boom. Its pathway into the future is now based 100% on the lightning speed sharing of information and concepts. Clint is a philosophical polymath dedicated to teasing through external ideas, theologies and communication systems as well as sorting through the internal concepts and conflicts, drives and motivations of his own being. For Clint the mushroom cultivators lab, incubation space and grow room is a whole or complex of temples/longhouses/pagoda’s/sanctuaries for the mycologist to work out a myriad of ideas. We amateur mycologists are a sort of archetype and the systems for cultivation are of our own design. We live and work in these systems like mycelium in a substrate. At a point of growth, expansion means introducing a plethora of external forces that can commonly be representative of the open doored church on the corner. Contamination will always make its way through a pinhole. For some, this is the end of the line, what lies beyond, in terms of literal growth, is no longer interesting or connected to the initial desire for exploration and construction of the temple of mycelium. As Clint moves on and hands off his creation, the passing of the torch begins and a rewiring of internal drives take-hold. What happens next for Clint will always have a portion of its origins in the metabolism of fungi! 

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It’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 speaks up, “Jesus, are these two still talking about mushrooms?!” This reality rings true for a lot of us in the cultivation scene when we get together with one another. RRs statement and Robert Rogers’ smile broke up the one track hive mind and we began talking about secret research projects, art and life. I will always be grateful for this meeting of the minds in a secret little mini mall oasis of a Mexican Restaurant as far north as one can get in the OP of Washington State. There is so much to say about Will’s achievements with Sno Valley but we will let the full conversation tell the tale! 

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