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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 through the next iteration of MycoWizards and with every mile closer to Maine, the stoke just kept growing! So I called my nephew Daniel who was living down in the swamp lands and proposed an idea and within a couple of weeks, at most, we were loaded up into the van of doom and headed down the east coast to record video episodes of this podcast exclusively for mycowizards.com ... here us recount the tale of our adventures from Maine to Kennett Square, down through the Carolinas, into Florida and over to Louisiaaaaaaannnnnaaaa in this recap! 

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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 psychedelic industry today. Through all of the satirical punching up he has done to point out the obvious and make us full belly laugh, he is consistently putting out one of the most important podcasts today. He has tied networks of mycopreneur's together around the globe, cover as many festivals and events as one human possibly can while remaining humble to the facts that he is on this ride as much as any of us, holding on, enjoying it and making a difference with the folks he is choosing to support and uplift with his viewership.  Dennis Walker is a dude to keep an eye on. Enjoy and keep the MycoWizards network growing!

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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 gourmet mushrooms to the community. The farm was met with equal excitement and so far it has been hard to keep up with the need for fresh gourmet mushrooms in this area. This has not only inspired visions of growth for the farm but the creation of a festival to celebrate mycology. The interest and eagerness to learn from so many was the fuel for the concept of creating a platform for people to gather and learn about the many incredible aspects of mycology.
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The Olympic Peninsula Fungi Festival cultivates discovery, connection, and community. The festival increases access to experiential learning about an array of mycology topics and brings people together in one of the most renowned ecosystems for fungi on Earth.
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The festival will feature lectures, hands-on workshops, guided forays, mushroom cuisine, and more from internationally acclaimed experts, both local and from across the U.S. Live music, a vendors’ market, and camping will make for a full three-days of family fun between Port Angeles and Sequim.
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No matter where you’re at on your journey with mushrooms, we guarantee this festival will inspire something new!

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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 no MycoMyco if that were the case. Sam has built a farm, developed an art career and carved an educational path out of his medium of choice, mycelium and fruiting bodies. If you don't know his work, you should! Often times us cultivators of the world forget how beautiful these mycological formations are when we are simply chasing down recipes and yields for income. The best part of being in this industry is you can take a moment, pause and revel in alien amazement at the things were are growing! Sam keeps that stoked central to his work with mycelium and myco-materials. He is a one of a kind human in this exploding industry!  

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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 Podcast, but for now we thought we would go whole ham on Shiitake Cultivation. This subject is near and dear to my own personal experiences growing the mighty Lentinula Edodes over the last decade. So buckle up and dig in to the pickiest little punks on the myco-sphere as we go through the history, strains and techniques necessary to understand to pull off perpetually successful crops of Shiitake Mushrooms!

Don't forget to check out our video series at MycoWizards.com and be sure to check out our Deep Dive on the Shiitake Mushroom while you are over there!

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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 as we dive deep into what makes these mazes of mycelium grow down in the infamous PA mushroom world!

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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 entire continental USA, hitting up as many mushroom farms as humanly possible...dude even got his hands on some of that tasty bacon from ecovative's new company to devour with @notfixedbrakeit ... I was on the way back from the El Diablo Run in Mexico when Mickey and Amy rolled through town and missed them by a couple of days of delayed travel so I count my lucky stars I got to jump on a zoom call to record this 3 hr cast with the Churchill Fellowship winner from down under! Y'all are gonna dig this episode, it's always fascinating to get a slight worldly perspective on the whole Mycowizards scene but Mickey got a massive download in 70 straight days!

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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 boiling over with stoke and we are ready to pierce through the blacktop, drifting state to state to bring myco-stories from their points of origin directly to you on your farm. So stay tuned and get stoked folks and enjoy this little update from Maine. 

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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 he, and his lovely partner Cat, decided to take up the fine art of sleepless nights, spore lung and endless farmers market rabbit holes all for a taste of the greatly odd satisfaction that comes with perfecting the art of the fungal grow. Poor friends of mine, they never knew they had it coming. Ok, ok, it's not that dramatic...it turns out you can be successful in this industry and actually enjoy your first year in action, as Sean and Cat have done with their fungi-child @wildfruitings ... So go give them a follow and listen to their cries for help in this episode of the Mycowizards Podcast!!!!!

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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 his steez that is indescribably necessary for boardroom meetings with oil rigging executives who might just be convinced that there is a better way to be less harmful to the world at large in their profit driven spheres. The current mush-boom is seeing a lot of folks fighting to maintain a grasp on their false sense of exclusivity through popular identifiers set to defend a self built wall constructed like a permanent line between them and the industrial juggernauts of the world…while those folks are necessary, archetypes like Josh might be able to bridge a gap and implement what only the old school punks in an anarcho-daze could only dream of. Josh has lived many-o-lives and can see the waiver in the self sharpening blade of time to maintain a viewpoint from both sides of a coin. His creativity and stoke will ultimately make a large difference in this world, just you wait and see!

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