The Mushroom Hour Podcast

GUEST:   

• https://www.themushroomhunterskitchen.com/   
• https://www.amazon.com/Mushroom-Hunters-Kitchen-Chad-Hyatt/dp/1732757100   

MENTIONS:   

• https://www.amazon.com/Mushrooms-Demystified-David-Arora/dp/0898151694   
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia   
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russula_brevipes   

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:   

• Changing Careers, Culinary Arts & Fungi   
• Secret Spots   
• Eating the Weird Stuff   
• David Arora Events   
• The Mushroom Hunters Kitchen   
• Mushroom Careers   
• Bringing Mushroom Recipes out of the 1950s   
• Catalonia’s Culinary Mushroom Traditions   
• Black Trumpet Jam, Matsutake and Fig Jam   
• Catalon Culture   
• Regional Spanish Food Traditions   
• Chefs Influenced by Foraging   
• Connecting to Where Food Comes From   
• Mushroom Genetics   

GUEST:   

• https://www.instagram.com/chefmollie/   
• https://www.instagram.com/thekindsage/   
• https://www.instagram.com/sovereigntyranch/   

MENTIONS:   

• https://regenified.com/   
• https://www.dreamingofavetterworld.com/   
• https://whiteoakpastures.com/pages/our-team   

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:   

• Finding Hope in Soil   
• Culinary Evolution   
• Becoming a Regenerative Farmer   
• Misaligned Incentives – Subsidies & Regulations   
• Barriers to Becoming a Farmer   
• Farmers as Protagonists   
• What are “Regenerative Farming” Practices?   
• Humans as a Keystone Species   
• Industrial Microbiome   
• Mycorrhizal Relationships with Corn?   
• On-Farm and Off-Farm Soil Fertility    
• Viability of Vegan Farm Systems   
• Connection Between Our Gut Microbiology and Mental Health   
• Explosive Blowback from Changing a Vegan Restaurant   

 GUEST:   

• https://www.instagram.com/themushroombible/   
• https://thepsilocybinmushroombible.substack.com/   
• https://www.amazon.com/d/Books/Psilocybin-Mushroom-Bible-Definitive-Mushrooms/1937866289/   

MENTIONS:   

• https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/d.nutt   
• https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/r.carhart-harris   
• https://themicrodose.substack.com/   
• https://www.entheogenesis.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:   

• Psilocybin Regulations in the UK   
• Medical Models of Psilocybin Therapy   
• Microdosing Mainstream   
• Power of Placebo   
• Evolving Cultivation Landscape   
• Updating the Psilocybin Mushroom Bible   
• Wood-Loving Psilocybe Mushrooms   
• Sustainability in Mushroom Growing   
• Synanthrope   
• Expanding Concepts of Harm Reduction   
• Principles of Critical Thinking   
• Readability of Scientific Literature      
• Open Source Science   
• A Quickly Changing Kaleidoscope   

 GUEST:   

• https://thefungivore.com/index.html   
• https://www.instagram.com/the_fungivore/    
• https://www.instagram.com/thisiskimqi/   

MENTIONS:   

• https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/may/01/fewer-wildfires-great-biodiversity-what-is-the-secret-to-the-success-of-mexicos-forests   
• Amanita princeps: https://www.mybis.gov.my/sp/9078   
• "undescribed purplish bitter Tylopilus": https://foraging4ct.wordpress.com/2012/07/04/wild-bitter-mushrooms-by-david-arora-on-thai/   
• Chicatana Ants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atta_mexicana   

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:    

• Falling in Love with Each Other & with Oaxaca   
• Cuajimoloyas Mushroom Festival   
• Lockdown in Thailand   
• Mushrooms in Thailand   
• Edible Mushrooms Across Cultures      
• Cultivated Mushrooms in Thailand   
• Normalizing Mycophilia   
• Diversity of Cultures Between Cities in Oaxaca   
• The Forests Owned by the People      
• Self-Organizing, Autonomous Communities    
• Ecotourism    
• Natural Dyes   
• Mutual Exchange & Reciprocity   
• Fungivore Tours   

GUEST:   

• https://myconaut.space/   

MENTIONS:   

• https://advancingecoag.com/   
• https://www.theremediators.com/   
• https://zachbushmd.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:    

• Embracing Bioeconomy   
• Awakening to Soil Futures   
• Chemistry of PFAS   
• PFAS in Agriculture & Food Systems   
• Fungus Breaking the Carbon-Fluorine Bond   
• AI Symbiosis
• Amish Technological Wisdom   
• Bioleeching, Biosequestration, Bioremediation    
• 3D Printable Fluorinated Biopolymers   
• Spore-Powered Ionic Plasma Thursters      
• Growing from a Child to an Adult Mentality   
• Building Data for Open Source Models   
• All About Partnership   
• Abundance Mindset   

GUEST:   

• https://www.instagram.com/kaydubsthehikingscientist/   
• https://www.patreon.com/Kaydubsthehikingscientist   
• https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/dr-kristen-wickert/the-plants-of-the-appalachian-trail/9781643260402/   

MENTIONS:   

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Mountains_(New_England)   
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophyllum_commune   

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:    

• Pursuing a PhD, Introduced to Instagram   
• Moving Back to Appalachia   
• Embracing Fungi   
• Wild Biodiversity of Appalachian Mountains   
• Appreciating our Local Ecology   
• Plants of the Appalachian Trail   
• Don’t Underestimate the Understory    
• Social Media & Mental Health   
• Science Communication & Making Science Real   
• Connecting Beyond Social Media   
• Process of Writing a Field Guide   
• Tips for the Amateur Naturalist   
• Find Your Local Mushroom Club   
• Pursuing Academic Mycology   

GUEST:   

• https://www.instagram.com/hyphaeprincess   
• https://www.instagram.com/communityagproject/   

MENTIONS:   

• https://www.crcdpr.org/
• https://centerformycoanalytics.org/   
• https://www.beacon.org/An-Indigenous-Peoples-History-of-the-United-States-P1164.aspx   

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:    

• From Math & Physics to Biology & Soil      
• What is Biochar?    
• Equestrian Waste Streams      
• Biochar Production, “Sustainability” and Scale   
• Lifecycle Analysis   
• Origins of Biochar Practice & Terra Preta
• Field Experiments on a Coffee Farm in Puerto Rico   
• Primer on Pyrolysis   
• Soil Bioremediation & Different Contexts   
• Recognizing Indigenous Land Stewardship   
• Biochar as a Microbe Reef   
• How to Apply Biochar to Your Soil   
• Community Agriculture Project    
• Center for MycoAnalytics   

GUEST:   

• https://farwestfungi.com/   
• https://www.instagram.com/farwestfungi/   
• https://scmmfest.com/   

MENTIONS:   

• https://www.mssf.org/   
• https://ffsc.us/   
• https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1833   
• https://www.fieldforest.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:    

• Growing up on a Mushroom Farm   
• Learning from Mycophilic Cultures   
• Farwest Fungi Mushrooms & More   
• Art & Science of Mushroom Substrates   
• Heat & Energy Consumption in Mushroom Cultivation   
• Virtues of Sawdust Spawn   
• Analytical Testing for Gourmet & Medicinal Mushrooms   
• Nature & Nurture = Species & Growth Substrate   
• Scaling Domestic Mushroom Production   
• “California Grown” Label Initiative   
• Resiliency & Food Security   
• Agriculture Industry Support   
• Santa Cruz Mountain Mushroom Festival   
• Steam Trains in the Redwood Forest   

GUEST:   

• FESTIVAL: https://www.allthingsfungi.co.uk/   
• https://jananicole.com/about/   
• https://www.instagram.com/allthingsfungi/   

MENTIONS:   

• https://www.kew.org/   
• https://www.sussexfungusgroup.co.uk/   

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:    

• Fungal Diversity Surveys   
• Creating Culture - Fungi, Ecology, Wellness, Art   
• All Things Fungi Festival
• Nighttime UV Fungi Walks   
• Biofluorescence   
• Fungal Conservation Frameworks   
• Educating Children About Fungi   
• Identification Cues   
• Mindfulness & Play   
• Slime Mold Sunday   
• Macrophotography   
• Explorations in Painting Fungi   
• The Takedown & Other Realities of Festival Organizing   

GUEST:   

• BOOK: https://www.mariafinn.com/books   
• https://www.mariafinn.com/   
• https://www.instagram.com/maria_finn1/   

MENTIONS:   

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

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:    

• 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