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Flora Funga Podcast — 225 episodes

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223: Can We Hear What Plants Are Feeling? Featuring the Master Plants Orchestra

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222: What is Ayahuasca and How is it Healing?

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221: INPERSON: How Fungi Are Being Used to Treat Dying Bees!

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220: How to Make Traditional Delicious Mead with DnD Meadery

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219: MEET THE PLUG: Lets Get Open-Minded with Plant Medicines from the UK

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218: Why your Accounts are Getting Banned...Mycology Meets Social Media

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217: STREET INTERVIEW: Healing Autoimmune Disease through Plant Medicine

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216: STREET INTERVIEW: Wake the F**k UP with a Macro Dose ft. Cannabis Nurse

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215: Top 5 Mushrooms for Lowering Inflammation

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214: Supplements You are Absolutely MISSING in your Diet

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213: Why This Mushroom Drink Is Changing Everything

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212: Street Interview-Cannadelic: Legal Lean

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211: Street Interview with a Pirate at Cannadelic Night Market

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210: Mushroom Coffee Review: Cuppa VS Four Sigmatic Ft. Karleen (sister)

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209: Your Beer has Glyphosate with Brandon Rust

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208: Using AI to Talk to Plants-- IN PERSON INTERVIEW

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207: Street Interview: Meet a TOP Interdimensional Visionary: Chris Dyer

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206: The Kratom Industry Is Getting Sketchy--Start a Mushroom Cafe

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205: How to Grow your Own Medicine

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204: 2025 Nomination Announcement

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203: New Study Shows Mushrooms Could Help Reduce Dementia in Dogs

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202: Juicy News| Forever Chemicals are now Safe to Spray on Crops

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201: Trapping Nematodes & Culture

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200: Top 10 Moments of 2025 Flora Funga WRAPPED

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199: Diet Soda’s Hidden Tradeoff? What a 1-Year Aspartame Study Found| Juicy News

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198: Street Interview--What YOU Mean I'm not a REAL Mycologist!?

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197: 2025 Nominations-- VOTE NOW!

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196: Fun Fungi Fact with Jasper Fungi Academy at TMF

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195: America's BIGGEST Fungi Magazine with Britt Bunyard

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194: Why the Midwest is Superior with Melissa Ketelsen| Ohio Mushroom Festival

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193: The Mushroom Finds You: Ceremony, Healing, and Creative Power with Edward Crowe

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192: MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE with Luna Stower

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191: New Fungus Lowers Inflammation AND Cancer Cells

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190: MEET THE PLUG: Nourish Cap

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189: MEET THE PLUG-Shatter the Stigma 5k-Run

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188: Inperson| How to Nurture a Scientist ft my Mom--Finn River Cidery

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187: New Anti-Cancer & Memory Boosting Boba Tea Fungus!

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186: Does Tripping Slow Down Aging?

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185: Is the Hype Around Juice Cleanses REAL?

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184: MET THE PLUG: The Future is Fungitarian

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183: Why Are we NOT Roasting Chestnuts Anymore?

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182: Interview with Paul Stamets | Telluride Mushroom Festival 2025

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181: New Study Shows that Shiitake Could Lower Risk of Cancer

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180: How to Turn Cacao into Chocolate?

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179: WTF is a Fungarium?! Tour with Matthew Smith

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178: 5 Ways that FUNGI are closer to HUMANS than PLANTS

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177: Death by Death Cap for Cutie Mushroom| True Crime

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176: MEET THE PLUG|The Fungivore’s Guide to Mexico’s Mycotours

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175: Fashion Meets Fungi

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174: 7 Top Mushrooms YOU Should NOT Eat!

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173: Turning Trash into Gold with Wrigglebrew

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172: If you Sell Mushroom Products you're Going to Need this!

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171: Can These Plants REALLY Help You Sleep?

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JOIN ME at This Years North Florida Entheogenic Conference July 12|13th

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170: How to Forage for Mushrooms without Dying

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169: How to Automate your Mushroom Cultivation--Far West Fungi

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168: Does Mushrooms Really Have Protein?

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167: What Does your Mind REALLY Look like on Drugs?

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Rooted in Biodiversity: Fungi, Community, and the Future of Diversity- Olympic Peninsula Fungi Festival

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165: BONUS| New Material Made from Fungi is Biodegradable, Edible... and Alive

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164: Mushroom Politics: How Fungi Could Revolutionize Health, Policy, and the Planet

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163: Unlocking IMMORTALITY: Is Reishi Mushroom the SECRET?

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162 Psychedelics, Scams, and Self-Discovery: Louis Dorian’s Fight for Healing and Truth

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161: BONUS| NEW Juicy News Explains How Fungi and Bacteria Communicate

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160: Mobile Mushroom Lab with FullSend OrgaNicks

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159: BONUS| Why Psychedelics Aren't for Everyone

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158: MyCOreach--Bridging the Gap Between Myco-Curious to Myco-Serious

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157: BONUS Episodes are BACK! How Does Reishi Help Hair Growth?

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156: The Flying Fungi: What's it like Skydiving on 20G of Shrooms?

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155: The Hidden Science of Morels, Soil Health & Fungal Medicine--Must-Know Mycology!

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154: Why Bananas Are Berries BUT Strawberries Aren't--Plants Are Using YOU!

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153: Swapping Genetics on SporeSwaps: A One Stop Mushroom Vendor Mall

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152: Microdosing for Over 50 Year Olds w/ Cesear Marin

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151: Beyond the Roots: How Mycelium Redefines Plant & Fungal Connections with Melissa Ketelsen

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150: The Truth About Psychedelics the Media Won’t Tell You- Satire Approach with Dennis Walker

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149: How Microdosing Can Help Anxiety, Depression & Addiction

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148: Philosophy Meets Mycology: Do Plants and Fungi Think?

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147: Why You're Not Feeling Your Mushroom Powders with Hamiltons Mushrooms

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146: Ready to Unlock your Higher Consciousness?

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145: How is Nature Against the Law? DECRIMINALIZE NATURE

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144: BONUS| NOMINATION RESULTS--Flora Funga Wrapped 2024

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143: Germs Don't Get You Sick, YOU DO!

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142: BONUS| Can Fungi have an Enormous Potential for New Antibiotics?

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141: Fascinated by Fungi with Dr. Gordon Walker- Fermentation, Growing your Social Media, and his Spicy OF Account

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140: BONUS| How Fungi Colonize Plant Roots?

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139: How to Start a Podcast: Step by Step Checklist

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138: BONUS| Can Robots Now Identify Plants?!

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137: Ergothioneine: The Most Important Nutrient You Have Never Heard of!

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136: BONUS| How Can Plants Protect Themselves Using Birds

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135: !BEWARE! How Can Stores Sell "Psychedelic" Mushroom Products?!

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134: BONUS| Mushroom Month Tour Recap: Oklahoma & Washington

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133: Is the Mycology Community in Europe Truly That Inclusive?

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132: BONUS| Juicy News and New Holiday Foraging Bags

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131: Discovering New Mushrooms with DNA Barcoding Featuring Molecular Mycologist Mandie Quark

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130: BONUS| My Mushroom Festival Recap from North Carolina + ITS MY BIRTHDAY

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129: Is it Really that Hard to Start your Own Mushroom Farm?

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128: Unveiling Fungi Secrets-- 2023 Olympic Peninsula Mushroom Festival Highlights & Insights

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127: How to Bring Mushrooms to Life!

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126: How to Pick Good Quality Mushroom Coffee

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125: How is AI Publishing DEADLY Mushroom ID books?!

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124: BONUS| I am now Flora Funga LLC & NEW Mushroom Review Series!!

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123: 2nd Reoccurring Guest--Save The Rare Lady Slippers!

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122: REMIX--Are There Only 2 Genders?

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121: 5 Ingredients Your Dogs Should Never Eat?

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120: BONUS| IM BACK and with NEW HOODIES!

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119: Should I Feel my Micro Dose? Benefits?

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118: BONUS| Lions Mane- Mental Clarity Exploring the Benefits for Your Brain

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117: How Semi Trailers can be Converted into Mushroom Fruiting Chambers

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116: BONUS| Mycelium VS Fruiting Body--WHICH IS BETTER?!

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115: Lets Explain Fungi VS Mushrooms--Different Mycology Jobs

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114: BONUS| I AM LOOKING FOR A NEW JOB AND SPONSORS

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113: Using Mushrooms to Heal the Soil: Mycoremediation

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112: REMIX: The MOST Important Thing on this Planet!

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111: Fungal Zoology--What is Zoochory and Who is the Poop Squad?

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110: REMIX| The BEST Pre-Alcohol Probiotic for Responsible Drinking-Zbiotics

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109: What are Cotton Candy Grapes?

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108: BONUS| Making Mushroom Manicotti with a World Renowned Chef

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107: NEW Listener Perspective: How Can Plants & Mushrooms Help Multiple Sclerosis?

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106: BONUS| Making Mushroom Tempura with a World Renowned Chef

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105: How to Successfully Farm Spirulina with William Padilla-Brown

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104: BONUS| Why Ego Is GOOD--Finding Your Purpose with Mushrooms

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103: What's the Ultimate Mushroom Stack to Optimize Your Day?

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102: BONUS| Benefits of Mushrooms--Compilation

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101: Lets Cross Pollinate the Myceliated Network with The Myco Zine

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100TH EPISODE! Fungi Flows Attempts to Break the World Record Longest RAP

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99: Making Chairs and Houses Out of Mushrooms?!

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98: BONUS| NEW MERCH & Fungi Flows Stopped by for a Quick Rap!

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97: You're Never too Young or Old to Start Foraging| Mason Goes Mushrooming

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96: BONUS| Flora Funga Favs of 2023

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95: REWIND: Christmas Special--Santa Was a Shaman!

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94: BONUS| NEW Audio Done by Reflect

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93: Are Fairy Rings Really Ruining Your Lawn?

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92: BONUS| I Paid People to Design NEW Merch for Me, I MET MycoZine, & Shoutouts

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91: Holistic Strategies: Preventing Cancer with Flora & Funga

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90: BONUS| Can Plants Tell Time?

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89: Oyster Bar: A Humble Soft Squishy Creature & Marine Conservation

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88: BONUS| My 1st Sponsor!, How I Take My Mushrooms, What Were You For Halloween?

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87: INPERSONS| What Makes a Fruit Rare or Exotic?--A Florida Fruit Farm Tour

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86: BONUS| I Got The Rockstar Treatment at OP Fungi Fest--ReCAP

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85: (Inperson) Mushrooms for Beginners our 1st Presentation

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84: BONUS| Demon Pronouns, MN Recap, and Citrus Bomb Experiment Field Trip

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83: How First Year Mushroom Festival Vibes Can Save The World

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82: BONUS| ITS MY BIRTHDAY! Plus New Giveaway Opportunity

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81: Alan Rockefeller: From Breaking into NASA Computers to Becoming a Famous Mycologist

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80: BONUS| Lions Mane Crab Cake Recipe & Send me your Chant Pics PLEASE

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79: RATE THAT POND! Stocking Savvy Biodiversity in Florida

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78: BONUS| Shroom Who? Flora Funga TikTok, I Did My 1st Speaking Event & The Complex Interaction Between Oregano + Ants

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77: Endless Entertainment: A Broad Look at the Soil Food Web with Dr. Adam Cobb

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76: BONUS| I Met William Padilla-Brown at SW Funga Fest!

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75: Get Your MIND BLOWN by Rhizophagy Cycles

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74: BONUS| NEW Corpse Flower Merch, New INPERSONS, Fairy Rings, and Unboxing Updates

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73: (INPERSONS) Anyone Can Be A Scientist--My Sister Joins Flora Funga Podcast

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72: BONUS|I Was on the Front Cover of the Daily Sun and I'm Going to SW Funga Fest with Alan Rockefeller

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71: Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't--a Crass Approach to Ecology and Evolution

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70: BONUS| Beachday Drama with RainyDayz & Taydayz

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69: Cultivating Success: Hydroponic Hemp Award Winning 1:1 Ratios

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68: BONUS| You Get to Pick my Next Tattoo!

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67: "Kelp me!" Kelping out the World's Underwater Forests

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66: BONUS| The Search for Mush Bellies in NYC, Updates, Shoutouts, Future Greenhouse Tours!

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65: (INPERSON) Florida Herbal Conference: Making Plant People Feel More ALIVE

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64: Bonus| "Why is this Nipple Waving in the Wind?" & I've Gone Peach Pickin

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63: Mush Bellies: Growing Bacon with Mushrooms

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62: Aging is a Disease: How to Live to be 120 years old with Tucson's #1 Mycologist

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61: BONUS| Fantastic Fungi Recap and Why We LOVE Paul Stamets

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60: The Villages Grown: If it Doesn't Walk, Swim, or Fly...WE'LL GROW IT (An Inpersons & My NEW Employer)

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59: BONUS| The Last of Us recap and I MET ALEX & ALLYSON GREY!

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58: The Way of Water is in a Crisis featuring a Soil Scientist

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57: BONUS| Sneak Peak to Florida Herbal Conference 2023 & Other Stuff that's Making Me Happy

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56: Breaking the Binary: Teaching Repetitive DNA Biology and STEM Equity as a Trans Scientist

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55: BONUS| Nerdy Jobs: An inside look into the diverse and captivating display of careers in plant and fungi science

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54: Mushroom Hunters Tarot: Welcome to a space where Mycology and Mythology Meet

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53: BONUS EPISODE: I Took Notes so YOU don't have to--My Top 10 Take Aways from Podfest2023 (Updates, Shoutouts, and Engagements)

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52: OMFGummies: Tasty Slurry, Alzheimer Remedies, and Supplement Graveyards

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51: The Movement of Water in Flora with Dr. Ruhland (MY FIRST REOCCURING GUEST!)

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50: The Truth on Algal Blooms with Damon Tighe

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49: Plant Music with Plant Wave by Joe Patitucci

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48: The Weirdest Flora and Funga with @Mr_plantgeek

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47: ENERGYbits®: The Most Sustainable Superfood you aren't Thinking about with Catharine Arnston

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46: Sargent's: How to Get into the Green Industry with Cathy Maxson

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45: Planet 13--THE WORLDS LARGEST MEDICAL CANNABIS DISPENSARY with Zach Brengman

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44: FEM (Female, Enby, More) in STEM with Kristin Lathem-Scott

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43: The Funga Connection Between Jewish Resilience and History with Hani Portner (They/Them)

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42:(BELGIUM: IN PERSON INTERVIEW) De Econier, Your Ecological Gardener with Duane Van Hoogen

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41: How Does one Acquire a Medical Card with Dr. Stephan Dahmer of Green Goods Dispensary

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40: How to Recycle/Compost with Danny Mishek (Proven Winner's Partner)

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39: Plant Disease Clinic (PDC) with Brett Arenz

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38: Fungi Sex and How it Differs from Plant Reproduction with Nik Money

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37: Learn about Spices with Ethan Frisch from Burlap & Barrel

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36: Identifying Active Fungal Compounds with Nammex (North American Medicinal Mushroom Extracts)

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35: Conservation Work with Arizona Conservation Corps (AmeriCorps)

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34: The Science Behind Mycorrhizal Applications (MA) with Melissa Flora

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33: Rooted in Spirit with Mana Mycelium and Gary Harbo (My First in Person Interview!)

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32: Mushroom Revival: Reviving Health using Functional Mushrooms with Alex Dorr

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31: Zbiotics: Proudly using GMOs to Ease Hangovers with Zack Abbott

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30: The Future of Farming (Regenerative Agriculture) with Allen Williams

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29: How to Look at Plants in a New Perspective with Brooke Sackenheim Co-Creator of Sovereignty Herbs

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28: The History of Christmas Funga with Kevin Feeney

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27: Who is the "Gentleman Forager" with Mike Kempenich

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26: Interactions Between Cacti and Funga with Stefan Burger

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25: Feeling Anxious, Depressed, or Having Insomnia? Maybe Try Autoimmune Protocol with Mickey Trescott

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24: How to Lead your Own Mushroom Foray wtih Tim Clemens

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23: Fungi Photography: Combining Science and Art with Meg Madden

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22: Linking Technology and Nature Using GIS with Kevin Rohling

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21: Generating Plant and Fungi Music with Loretta "Maps Bolt" from Biotunes/Cannatunes

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20: How Lichenology can be Both Scientific and Artistic and How They're Underrated with Steven and Lili

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19: Botanical Body Products with Adrienne Berry from Waterlilly Botanicals

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18: Connection Between Chinese Medicine and Functional Health with Dr. Ayla Wolf

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17: Get to Know Me Kaitlyn Kuehn (KK): Host of Flora Funga Podcast

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16: Reconnecting with your Roots with Laura Adrian

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15: The Nerdy Banter Between Two Plant Biologist with Addeline Theis (Prairiologist)

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14: Urban Foraging with Annie Doran: The Negative Impacts of your Mowed Lawns

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13: How the Soil Food Web Works and Why it's Important with Dr.Elaine Ingham

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Episode 12: Plant Microscopy with Judith Lundberg-Felten CEO of Flora L. Design

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Episode 11: Mycorrhizal Planet with Michael Phillips

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Episode 10: A Deep Dive into Mycoremediation with Howard Sprouse Founder of The Remediators

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Episode 9: How to be like a Plant and Share Positive Energy Ft. A Guided Nature Meditation with Lesa De Bergh

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Episode 8: What is Photosynthesis and How Does it Work with Dr. Ruhland

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Episode 7: How to Enjoy Every Moment with Willow the Herbalist at Flora Funga Farms

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Episode 6: How to Become a Mushroom with Sam the Fungi

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Episode 5: Top 7 Reasons Why Plant-Fungi Interactions are Important Ft. Randall Simonson

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Episode 4: 5 Reasons Why Fungi are Important

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Episode 3: 5 Reasons Why Plants are Important

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Episode 2: What is a Fungus?

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Episode 1: What is a Plant?

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Trailer: Lets Get Down n Nerdy with Plants and Fungi