GUEST:   

• https://bookshop.org/p/books/go-forth-and-forage-a-guide-to-foraging-over-50-of-the-most-common-edible-medicinal-north-american-mushrooms-whitney-johnson/21618294?ean=9780760392751&next=t   
• https://appalachianforager.com/home   
• https://www.instagram.com/appalachian_forager/   
• https://www.tiktok.com/@appalachian_forager   

MENTIONS:   

• https://www.facebook.com/groups/bluegrassmycological/   
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydnum_repandum   

MUSHROOM HOUR:   

• https://welcometomushroomhour.com    
• https://instagram.com/welcome_to_mushroom_hour   
• https://tiktok.com/@welcome_to_mushroom_hour   

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

TOPICS COVERED:   

• Beginner Foraging Foibles   
• "Go Forth and Forage"   
• Appalachian Mountain Range   
• Foraging in a Kentucky Forest   
• Learn Your Trees   
• Making Science Observations While Foraging   
• Hilljack Girl on TikTok   
• Creating a Mushroom Guidebook   
• Internal vs External Inspiration   
• Textures and Flavor Profiles of Wild Mushrooms   
• Preserving Mushrooms Through the Seasons   

GUEST:   

• https://www.wildwisebotanicals.com/   
• https://www.instagram.com/wildwisebotanicals/   

MENTIONS:   

• https://momyco.org/   
• https://www.amazon.com/Missouris-Wild-Mushrooms-Maxine-Stone/dp/1887247742   
• https://namyco.org/  
• https://mycota.com/   
• https://www.fs.usda.gov/r09/marktwain   

MUSHROOM HOUR:   

• https://welcometomushroomhour.com    
• https://instagram.com/welcome_to_mushroom_hour   
• https://tiktok.com/@welcome_to_mushroom_hour   

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

TOPICS COVERED:   

• Growing up in Rural Ozarks   
• Crohns Disease   
• Wild Medicine    
• Homesteading and Homeschooling   
• The Ozarks as an Understudied Bioregion   
• Missouri Mycological Society   
• Maxine Stone   
• Certified Mushroom Identifiers   
• Developing Mushroom Certification Courses   
• Genetic Sequencing     
• Wildwise Botanicals  
• “Foraging Mushrooms of the Ozarks”    

GUEST:   

• https://chezjulies.com/  
• https://www.instagram.com/chezjuliesconsultingwinemaker/  

MENTIONS:   

• http://www.mycoventures.com/  
• https://www.somamushrooms.org/  
• https://namyco.org/  
• https://www.cafebeaujolais.com/  

MUSHROOM HOUR:   

• https://welcometomushroomhour.com    
• https://instagram.com/welcome_to_mushroom_hour   
• https://tiktok.com/@welcome_to_mushroom_hour   

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

TOPICS COVERED:   

• Cafe Beaujolais  
• Cook Your Mushrooms  
• Mycoventures  
• SOMA & NAMA  
• Mushrooms + Skillet  
• Expanding Vocabulary of Descriptors for Smell and Taste  
• The Magic of Cooking Together  
• Future of Culinary Mushrooms  
• Underappreciated Russulas and Suillus  
• Community Cookbooks  
• NAMA Mushroom Cooking Competition  
• Licensing and Importance of Consumer Education  
• Don’t Let Your Mushrooms Spoil – Preservation Techniques  

GUEST:   

• https://www.instagram.com/foxamongbears/   
• https://www.patreon.com/foxamongbears   

MENTIONS:   

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergillus_oryzae   
• https://www.bioc.co.jp/en/   
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbamele   
• https://www.consciousacrefarm.com/morelfest   

MUSHROOM HOUR:   

• https://welcometomushroomhour.com    
• https://instagram.com/welcome_to_mushroom_hour   
• https://tiktok.com/@welcome_to_mushroom_hour   

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

TOPICS COVERED:   

• Koji Saving Lives   
• Aspergillus oryzae   
• Process of Fermentation   
• Finding Creativity in Limitations   
• Capturing Enzymes in Fermentation   
• Safety & Nutrient Density in Mushroom Extracts   
• Better Farming with Fermentation   
• Safety & Nutrient Density in Mushroom Extracts  
• Developing Better Medicinal Mushroom Extractions with Fermentation   
• Bioavailability and Bio-efficiency   
• Myco-molasses   
• Shaking up the Medicinal Mushroom Extract Industry   

GUEST:   

• https://mycota.com/   

MENTIONS:   

• https://www.mycoportal.org/portal/taxa/index.php?taxon=274169   
• https://www.inaturalist.org/   
• http://ww.calalive.org/   

MUSHROOM HOUR:   

• https://welcometomushroomhour.com    
• https://instagram.com/welcome_to_mushroom_hour   
• https://tiktok.com/@welcome_to_mushroom_hour   

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

TOPICS COVERED:   

• Passion for Mushroom Cultivation   
• Wild Mushroom Identification   
• DNA barcoding vs. Whole Genome Sequencing   
• Sanger Sequencing & Nanopore Sequencing   
• DNA Sequencing Process from Specimen to Final Data
• AI & Algorithms Interpreting Genetic Data   
• Creating Foundational Data Sets   
• Unidentified Fungi All Around Us   
• Expanding from Indiana Across North America   
• Genetic Data Making Better Field Mycologists   
• What is a “Species”?   
• The Species Problem in Medicinal Mushroom Research   
• Becoming a Contributor to Mycota Labs Projects   
• Bioinformatics & Scaling Biodiversity Studies   

GUEST:   

• https://www.instagram.com/the_female_forager/   
• https://www.facebook.com/thefemaleforager/   

MENTIONS:   

• https://www.facebook.com/groups/MushroomSpottersUK/?locale=en_GB   
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomitopsis_betulina   
• https://hifasdaterra.com/en/   
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria   
• https://www.amanitadreamer.net/   

MUSHROOM HOUR:   

• https://welcometomushroomhour.com    
• https://instagram.com/welcome_to_mushroom_hour   
• https://tiktok.com/@welcome_to_mushroom_hour   

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

TOPICS COVERED:    

• Drawn to Fungal Medicine   
• Birch Polypore   
• Proper Mushroom Preparation   
• Conscious Communion with the Forest   
• Lowering Cortisol Levels   
• Alleviating Stress, Alleviating Suffering   
• Blending Allopathic and Holistic Healthcare   
• Science Communication and Medicinal Mushroom Research   
• Analytical Chemistry of Mushroom Supplements   
• Medicinal Compounds in Wild vs Cultivated Mushrooms   
• Amanita muscaria   
• Research on Addiction Treatment with Amanita muscaria   
• Evolution of Modern Medicine   

GUEST:   

• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel_Newman10   
• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10326184/   

MENTIONS:   

• https://college.lclark.edu/departments/biology/   
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Lincoff   
• https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/415949.Mushrooms_Demystified   
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Singer   
• https://www.corenewal.org/   
• https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/amazonian-chernobyl-ecuadors-oil-environment-disaster/   
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascopolyporus   
• https://www.mycobank.org/page/Name%20details%20page/96535   

MUSHROOM HOUR:   

• https://welcometomushroomhour.com    
• https://instagram.com/welcome_to_mushroom_hour   
• https://tiktok.com/@welcome_to_mushroom_hour   

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

TOPICS COVERED:    

• Childhood Mycology Mythology   
• Russian Mushroom Tradition   
• Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula   
• Bolivia’s Outrageous, Undocumented Biodiversity   
• Chernobyl of the Amazon   
• Corporate Evil   
• Biodiversity Research, Conservation and Geopolitical Activism   
• Los Cedros Bioreserve, Choco Bioregion   
• Mining Concessions in Protected Forests   
• Ecuador Supreme Court Ruling with Fungal Conservation Research   
• Corporate Propoganda, Thugs and Sabotage   
• Richer than Gold   
• Fungi that do Both: Entomopathogenic and Phytopathogenic   

GUEST:   

• https://www.instagram.com/inventor_michael/   
• https://www.cleantecsystems.com/   

MENTIONS:   

• https://www.instagram.com/mr_fungitarian/   
• https://www.instagram.com/windycitymushroom/   

MUSHROOM HOUR:   

• https://welcometomushroomhour.com    
• https://instagram.com/welcome_to_mushroom_hour   
• https://tiktok.com/@welcome_to_mushroom_hour   

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

TOPICS COVERED:    

• Electro-Chemical Fuel Cell   
• Containerized Agriculture   
• Colorado Marijuana Industry   
• Specialized Mobile Machinery   
• Pivoting From Marijuana to Gourmet Mushrooms   
• Biological Printing Presses   
• Mushroom Jerky   
• Heavy Log Method   
• Converting Semi Trailers to Mushroom Farms   
• Real Lightsabers   
• World in Need of Leadership in Systemic Change   
• Fuel Efficiency Tech for Cars, Trucks, Semis, Cargo Ships   
• Mushrooms are the Future of Food   

GUEST:   

• https://www.instagram.com/lovebeingryland/   
• https://www.bigfoolishproject.com/   

MENTIONS:   

• https://kissthegroundmovie.com/   
• https://commongroundfilm.org/   
• https://100millionacres.org/  
• Graeme Sait: https://blog.nutri-tech.com.au/author/graeme-sait/   
• https://understandingag.com/   
• https://www.youtube.com/@carboncowboys   

MUSHROOM HOUR:   

• https://welcometomushroomhour.com    
• https://instagram.com/welcome_to_mushroom_hour   
• https://tiktok.com/@welcome_to_mushroom_hour   

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

TOPICS COVERED:   

• Childhood Connection to Nature and Spirituality
• Mind-Expanding Potential of Mushrooms   
• Café Gratitude & Sacred Commerce   
• Soil as the Foundation of Ecosystems   
• Cycling Carbon from Air into the Soil   
• Soil Stewardship   
• Redemption through Regeneration   
• Possibility Pirate   
• Plant Medicine & Touching Divinity   
• Importance of Having a Team   
• Regenerative Agriculture Movement   
• The Farm Bill   
• Soil Trilogy (Kiss the Ground, Common Ground, +1)   
• Shifting the Paradigm Toward Soil   

GUEST:   

• https://www.drannasitkoff.com/   
• https://www.instagram.com/drannasitkoff/   
• https://lucidummedicinals.com/

MENTIONS:   

• https://bastyr.edu/   
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodofomes_cajanderi   
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptoporus_volvatus   

MUSHROOM HOUR:   

• https://welcometomushroomhour.com    
• https://instagram.com/welcome_to_mushroom_hour   
• https://tiktok.com/@welcome_to_mushroom_hour   

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

TOPICS COVERED:   

• Path to Herbalism & Natural Medicine   
• Medicinal Mushrooms and Cancer   
• The Rosy Polypore   
• Mushrooms as Medicine   
• Mushrooms in the Diet   
• Polysaccharides, Digestion and Immune Stimulation   
• Terpenes and Cancer Response, Immune Modulation   
• Ergosterol – Mushrooms’ Version of Cholesterol   
• Ergothioneine, Antioxidants and Glutathione
• Medicinal Mushrooms Supporting Male & Female Fertility   
• Mushrooms & Hormone Support   
• Support Before, During & After Pregnancy