PT422 – Oliver Carlin - Curative Mushrooms: Exploring the World of Grow Kits and Home Growing

In this episode, Joe interviews Oliver Carlin, Founder of Curative Mushrooms, a grow kit solution company designed to produce mushrooms of one's choosing within 30 days with little effort and no growing experience.  Carlin tells his personal story of 20 years in the Navy to a 7g psilocybin journey and the work of perfecting these grow bags; how a grow bag works; how easy it can be to grow your own mushrooms; the advantages of growing your own mushrooms vs. buying them; the legalities of grow kits and how he has been able to do this; steps growers can take to reduce their legal risks; the variety of people benefitting from mushrooms (especially in the veteran community); and how growing your own mushrooms seems to make the experience more curated and special. Curative Mushrooms recently hired someone to create new strains for them every month, they do bimonthly live Q&As for people interested in growing, and they ship a bonus mycology book with each kit that shows how to study spores. They offer growing kits for Lion's Mane, Turkey Tail, and Shiitake mushrooms, but his most popular option is the "All-in-One Happy Mushrooms for Sad People" kit. Click here to go to the show notes page.