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MycoWizards
by Erik Lomen
Welcome, MycoWizards of the World! If you’re here that means you have within you either a burgeoning fungal curiosity, a need to do some mycological trouble-shooting or you require some on-brand chatter to drown the drone of the flow hood while those plates stack up! Well, you have followed the mycelial network to the right place. Every other Friday (pretty much,) we deliver a new episode, oozing with metabolites. We may be diving into a common problem among commercial mushroom farmers, chatting with growers, scientists, enthusiasts, or submerging ourselves in the latest cutting edge cultivation technology! Join us and our host Erik Lomen as we descend further into this madness that is MycoWizardry! Become a full fledged MycoWizard now! Check out https://mycowizards.com/ to find out how! USE CODE "WIZARDPOD" AT CHECKOUT TO GET 30 DAYS OF FREE DEEPDIVES
Episodes
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Feral Fungi: Jason Scott
Jason Scott's mystical spagyric tinctures have held a place in a lot of our myco-brains since first glimpse at his massive stacks of soxhlets and glassware towering from counter tops like a city scape of an alchemical alter. The reductive nature of "modern science" has boiled down complex mystery...
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Will MacHugh and The Shiitake Battlefield
Will MacHugh is a Washington state based mushroom farmer with a long standing background in the world of agriculture. He has grown fast and smart and he has noticed what a lot of us are too busy to do much about...the importation of extremely cheap shiitake logs from China. Will has assembled…
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MycoWizards Broadcast Ep: 20
In this crazy beautiful world we live in, we forget how connected we are. Who would of thunk that flowers and mushrooms needed each other.. Not I.. But im no Mycologist. In todays episode Erik and Gregor talk about the connection between orchids and mycelium and how to work together to produce…
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MycoWizards Broadcast Ep: 19
And then there was fungi. What's new in the mushroom world? Bipartisan group of Pennsylvania members to re-introduce Bill protecting mushroom farmers. Things in the mushroom capital of the world are shaking up. Work forces, automation and lack there of. We talk about it all in 1 of our two…
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MycoWizards Broadcast Ep: 18
Leaving brown town and cruising towards ultra violet summer. What to do with cauliflower lions and why UV water filtration is a thing you should do! IF YOU WANT TO BE ENTERED TO WIN ONE OF OUR GIVEAWAYS, GO TO https://mycowizards.com/join_us AND BECOME A MEMBER AT ANY LEVEL! SHIRTS, MERCH, AGAR…
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MycoWizards Broadcast Ep: 17
How do you say mushroom in french? They won't take husbands, but they will take farmers. Trust us, we tried. Also, buttons are better in other places. Apparently an infinite growth mindset does bad things to crops. Weird. IF YOU WANT TO BE ENTERED TO WIN ONE OF OUR GIVEAWAYS, GO TO...
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MycoWizards Broadcast Ep: 16
So we failed Mechanical Dedikaryotization. But that wont stop us! Today we talk with Gregor Jones about his findings and what we can improve on as we take the next steps in our fungal journey! ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused…
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MycoWizards Broadcast Ep: 15
What are mushrooms good for if not a final resting place? take a took at one of this weeks episodes where Erik and Mike chat about the many uses for these funny shapes of water we call mushrooms! ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused...
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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep14
Tumultuous tariffs and other manure. Today's broadcast is all about poor leadership decisions from the top and how/why farmers need some buttressing for their sh*t umbrellas and a red ribbon road of loopholes to cartwheel through just to stay afloat. Beware the suits and grow your fruits, fam.…
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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep13
Do you have a good Morel code? We like to think we do. Or at least we know of folks who do... Murder, mayhem and corporate tomfoolery abound in todays broadcast all about the mighty morel and how yes, you can cultivate them if you happen to be a pair of Norwegian twin genius'. This and more,...
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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep 12
When you ask, We answer! tune information our second broadcast this week where Erik and Daniel hash out some basic ideas and answers to supplementation for our friends around the world and in the states! Mead! Aliens with middle fingers! Daniels exhaustion, the whole thing and a bag of chips.…
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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep11
And then there was space! come check out one of this weeks episodes with Gregor Jones! We talk NASA. We talk Space. We talk about things that don't belong in our face. Just kidding. ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around…
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Highland Fungi: David Medlock
David Medlock of Highland Fungi has been sending me the most incredible papers and research articles on all things fungi over the entirety of 2024. He has an unwavering dedication to obsessively digging for details to generate solutions to extremely complicated issues in the cultivation of the…
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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep10
A royal pardon for the founder of the Silk Road. What could it mean? What new precedent has been set? What do we know? Not much, but tune in and find out anyway. ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new...
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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep9
Tony Bag-of-Donuts should not be in charge of shipping. Today the boys chat about the importance of refrigerated shipping and why CNS ain't here to ship it dry! Its bodies in bags, cellular death, overheated trash and more of that good Doom you've come to love! ALSO Check out what's new over at...
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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep8
Like a bad idea, mushrooms can grow anywhere and on anything... and apparently anyone? From amphibians to your dorm room wallpaper, if conditions are right, the mycelial network will adopt your components and make them their own! Learn more about this weirdness in today's episode and stay tuned…
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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep7
Can you eat Chestnut mushrooms and poop gold? Or maybe still it down and cure cancer in mice? We don't know but we're figuring it out in this beautiful Monday broadcast! So grab your pets and some tasty mushrooms cause it's gunna be a messy ride! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35363110/ ALSO…
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Open Fung: Phil Ross
Phil Ross is a legend in the bay area myco-space. If you don’t know him, I suggest you start with the first video that really propelled Phil and the idea of myco-materials into the world entitled "Built With the Cleanest Technology on Earth: Nature" … Within this short video made only eight years...
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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep6
The follies of those fallen to the orange reaper; neurospora. Generalization vs. Specialization, who wins that particular apocalypse? Don't put all your eggs in one super sack, the rolling giveaways continue! These talking points and more, on today's MycoWizards Broadcast. ALSO Check out what's…
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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep5
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! ALSO Check out what's new over at...
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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep4
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! ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep...
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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep3
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. Bespoke scientific article here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gxqBeIbpvyYTtMGPyu3yiw2vimbfPIfd/view?usp=sharing ALSO Check out what's...
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MadCap Mushrooms: Blake and Lindsey
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…
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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep2
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. ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused…
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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep1
WELCOME ONE AND ALL 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....
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Wumbo Genetics
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...
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Dr. Sara Webb: Mycelium In Microgravity
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…
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Flying Saucer Farms: Clint Jurek
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...
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Sno Valley Mushrooms: Will Lockmiller
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...
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Tiger Sawgill: Thomas Roehl
Lentinus Tigrinus AKA the "Tiger Sawgill" mushroom is something that has fascinated a handful of mycologists for a long stretch of time. From a fungal evolutionary standpoint, it is a mushroom with a long stretch of phylogenetic-flux. The current fruitbodies develop as a rather straight forward...
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Dedikaryotization: Gregor Jones
We have spent an incredible amount of time thus far tearing into our infamously high yielding commercial dikaryons to develop a gourmet monokaryon culture bank here at Cap N Stem. The goal at the end of the day is to understand these monokaryons on a deeper level and to develop new breeding...
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North Spore: Eliah Thanhauser
It took over a decade but I finally got the chance to sit down with Eliah Thanhauser of North Spore and discuss our long and interwoven histories in the Maine mushroom industry. North Spore has excelled in so many things through their explosive growth in the myco-sphere. Co-evolving alongside of...
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MyCoLove Farm
Become A MycoWizard today at www.mycowizards.com! Shane Schoolman and Michael Heim are going wild in the game of mushroom-extracts. Dual Extraction What???? Soxhlet Who???? They had me at Cordy-Crystals and Gnar-Tar, never-mind their in depth exploration of ultrasonically extracted myco-molecules...
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OM Mushrooms
The age old tale, or so it seems in these fast moving times seems to be Mycelium vs. Fruitbodies ... but what if you simple added both into your products, built out and followed through with scientific studies for publication and actually collected data after proceeding to test, test and test...
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Traveling Cap Mushroom Company
Round about two years ago the entire Cap N’ Stem crew hosted a massive bonfire at our newly acquired property in Lewiston. Many joined in the insanity, many bailed, motorcycles broke down, did burnouts or wrecked into dark Maine gullies, but the fire raged on and the partying continued through to...
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Julian Mattucci (Imperial Scientific & Imperial Labs)
Julian Mattucci, also know as @dedikaryotizationdaddy is a dedicated researcher and a talented mycologist. He has been in the throws of some of the more nerdy but important breeding work in the wild word of mushrooms. I came across his Dedikaryotization Protocol via a shroomery post offered up by...
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Columbia Mushroom In 2024 (Neil Brent)
Welcome back the mighty Neil Brent of Columbia Mushrooms! There are a million and one hilarious things that can be said about Neil, but this batshit hero to the cultivation crowd knows how to grow gourmet mushrooms like the best of them. What I appreciate most about Neil is his split dedication…
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Mighty Cap Mushrooms
Mike and I ripped up the coast of California towards the never-ending boarder-lands between the sandy dunes of the hot as hell desert and the perfectly temperate pacific blue until we came to the land of Mighty Cap Mushrooms in Paso Robles. Chris and Branden emerged from the first expansion of...
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Hamilton Morris
Shortly before deciding to take the leap into commercial gourmet mushroom cultivation, I stumbled across a video of a young Hamilton Morris reporting on Magic Truffles in Amsterdam for Vice News. In this video Hamilton visits a farm that had to quickly pivot away from fruit body production and…
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KM Mushrooms (Amanda Janney)
Some of our favorite mushroom cultivators are of old punk origins. You know the ones, strapped and packed with an array of patches, CDs, books and leftover dinner all in that high resting backpack rippin’ uphill on a fixed gear or in deteriorating ox-blood doc martens hopping rails and riding…
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Far West Fungi (Kyle Garrone)
Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com! Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Try to get Kyle Garrone to talk about anything but growing mushrooms and the emerging world of contemporary...
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Marc R Keith vs. Ferry County
Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com! Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! There were many things racing through my head when I first met Roger Rabbit, the OG king of Shroomery.org!…
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Son and Skye
Eric Pearson of Son and Skye is a myco-farmers dead set on the details of cultivation. His interests exist within the systems, controllers and concepts for keeping rooms regulated and running in the intense heat and humidity of the Florida summers. While his farm is small and seemingly off grid…
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Roger Rabbit (Marc R Keith) At The OP Fungi Festival
Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com! Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! On two wheeled deathtraps through fall sun showers and ever changing scenery, RR and myself sped north from...
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Mushroom Maggie's Farm
Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com! Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! The first time I met Cyrus Lester of Mushroom Maggie's, I had no concept of the entire story behind such a...
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MyCo Planet
Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com! Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! It's easy to start something, It's another thing to carry it forward through time and space as it grows and...
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Cactus Hat Mushrooms
Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com! Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Joseph Iovino is a man sculpted from pure badassery! From fire fighting, to actual fighting to mushroom...
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Fox Farm & Forage (Amy Fox)
Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com! Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! It was 2015 and in a flash I was kicked off Facebook, for reasons I suspect originated with my being on the...
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Mushroom Revival (Alex Dorr)
Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com! Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! There were only a few folks who initially went head over heals cultivating cordyceps in the US back in the...
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Daniel Ashley (East Coast MycoWizards Tour Recap)
Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com! Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! 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...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome, MycoWizards of the World! If you’re here that means you have within you either a burgeoning fungal curiosity, a need to do some mycological trouble-shooting or you require some on-brand chatter to drown the drone of the flow hood while those plates stack up! Well, you have followed the mycelial network to the right place. Every other Friday (pretty much,) we deliver a new episode, oozing with metabolites. We may be diving into a common problem among commercial mushroom farmers, chatting with growers, scientists, enthusiasts, or submerging ourselves in the latest cutting edge cultivation technology! Join us and our host Erik Lomen as we descend further into this madness that is MycoWizardry!
Become a full fledged MycoWizard now! Check out https://mycowizards.com/ to find out how!
USE CODE "WIZARDPOD" AT CHECKOUT TO GET 30 DAYS OF FREE DEEPDIVES
HOSTED BY
Erik Lomen
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