In an age with an alarming increasing demand for energy consumption, we need more sustainable solutions if we're going to continue as a human race. Today we sit down with Valeria La Saponara, an Italian-American mechanical and aerospace engineer, who is developing biodegradable wind turbine blades made from mycelium composites. This episode will figuratively and literally blow you away. Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next winner will be selected on December 27, 2023 and contacted...

Today we get an auditory transport to Hawaii to sit down with Nicole Hynson to chat about the fungal biodiversity of Hawaii. We focus on the importance of mycorrhizal fungi on the island and the relationship between these rare tropical plants and their fungal allies. We end the episode talking about how to inspire young kids to get excited about mushrooms and how to best teach kids in our school systems. Dr. Nicole Hynson is a Professor in the Pacific Biosciences Research Center at the...

Today we sit down with Max Goransson of Golden Mushroom Co. from Ocean Beach San Diego sunny California to chat mushroom farming, surfing, creating a mushroom community, encountering bears and gorillas, philosophy and more. Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next winner will be selected on December 27, 2023 and contacted via email. www.mushroomrevival.com We are a functional mushroom company and make 100% certified USDA Organic and Vegan mushroom supplements. We are transparent with...

By influencing a gene in Colletotrichum tofieldiae researchers like Kei Hiruma are able to turn the root mold from a damaging parasite into something that actually supports plant development. This could save hundreds and millions in food waste and lower our need for chemical fertilizers and fungicides. The research by Kei Hiruma is helping solve world hunger and is creating a healthier more sustainable planet. Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next winner will be selected on...

Today we take a trip to Madagascar with Mauro Rivas-Ferreiro to discover the biodiversity of fungi on the island. From mycorrhizal fungi to more, we talk optimal ecosystems, rare plants, and future research needed on the island. Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next winner will be selected on December 27, 2023 and contacted via email. www.mushroomrevival.com We are a functional mushroom company and make 100% certified USDA Organic and Vegan mushroom supplements. We are transparent...

The future of architecture is partnering with fungi. Even beyond this, it's partnering with nature as a whole, a stance that is referred to as going from the athropocene to the symbiocene as a human race. We sit down with the team at PLP labs to geek out about building our future out of mycelium. Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next winner will be selected on November 27, 2023 and contacted via email. www.mushroomrevival.com We are a functional mushroom company and make 100%...

We sit down today with Lauren Myers to talk about her work with VETS, an organization that helps veterans and their spouses access treatment with psychedelic therapies including iboga/ibogaine, ketamine, psilocybin, MDMA, 5-MeO-DMT, and ayahuasca. What's it like being in war? What is it like coming back home or being the spouse or child of someone suffering with PTSD? Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next winner will be selected on November 27, 2023 and contacted via...

Oregon was the first state in the United States to legalize psilocybin for medical use. We sit down with Dr. Erica Zelfand, the lead educator in the nation's first HECC-licensed training program for psilocybin facilitators to talk about what it actually takes to become a trained psilocybin therapist. Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next winner will be selected on November 27, 2023 and contacted via email. www.mushroomrevival.com We are a functional mushroom company and make 100%...

What if we can fireproof our home with mycelium? Just in the US alone around 358,500 homes experience a structural fire and 3,000 people die each year. We chat with Dr. Tien Huyn, an associate professor in the School of Science at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia to envision a world with fire proof mycelium construction. Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next winner will be selected on October 30, 2023 and contacted via email. Links to Dr. Tien Huynh's work...

Berl Oakley and his team are using Aspergillus nidulans to degrade plastic and then using the secondary metabolites to then cure cancer, make antibiotics, statins, antifungals and more to save people's lives. Talk about killing two birds with one stone. Berl Oakley is the Irving Johnson Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Kansas dedicating the last 40+ years to solving the world's biggest problems with fungi. Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next...

Amanda Cobbett is an award-winning textile artist with over 25 years’ experience making realistic three dimensional embroidery sculptures of mushrooms and lichen. They are so life like it will be hard for your brain to process they aren't real. We sit down with Amanda and chat about her artistic exploration of nature. Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next winner will be selected on October 30, 2023 and contacted via email. www.mushroomrevival.com We are a functional mushroom...

In our fourth ever in person podcast episode we sit down with Ben and Amanda, the super rad brother and sister duo at Malama Mushrooms. We chat about what it's like throwing a mushroom festival, the ins and outs of having a functional mushroom start up, mushrooms in Hawaii, AI, memes, mushroom boofing and more. cha cha check it out Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next winner will be selected on October 30, 2023 and contacted via email. www.mushroomrevival.com We are a functional...

Maine Cap N Stem Started in 2014 cultivating a variety of gourmet mushrooms from spore to store,  then became the first national producer and distributor of Certified Organic Mushroom Substrate for small and large farms across the continental USA. We crack a beer with the founder and dive into some funny stories about navigating the wild world of mushroom farming. Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next winner will be selected on October 30, 2023 and contacted via...

How does one get accredited to become a psilocybin facilitator? What are the rules and regulations currently in place in Oregon? What does the legal future look like for psilocybin assisted therapy? We chat with Hadas Alterman, JD from Berkley Law, and Director of government affairs at APPA (American Psychedelic Practitioners Association) to answer all these questions and more. Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next winner will be selected on October 30, 2023 and contacted via...

Anxiety can wreak havoc on people and develop into more serious disorders including Anorexia nervosa. We chat with UCSD Associate Clinical Professor & Psychologist, Psychedelic clinician and researcher, Dr. Stephanie Knatz Peck, to dive deep into this topic and explore the use of Psilocybin assisted therapy as potential treatment. What are eating disorders? How do they develop? What current treatments are out there? what is the promise of using Psilocybin assisted therapy? and more....

Are you a current or aspiring parent and want to teach your kiddos about mushrooms? This is the episode for you. We chat with Tedx speaker and published author Melany Kahn about teaching little humans about the wonderful world of mushrooms. We even dive deep about Melany's new children's book, Mason goes Mushrooming. Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next winner will be selected on September 25, 2023 and contacted via email. www.mushroomrevival.com We are a functional mushroom...

When an astroid hit earth and fungi took over, warm blooded mammals were able to survive better than cold blooded amphibians because their higher temperature gave them better resistance to fungal diseases. Since then fungi have been evolving and new fungal diseases, new medicines, and technologies have emerged. Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next winner will be selected on August 24, 2023 and contacted via email. www.mushroomrevival.com We are a functional mushroom company and...

The psychedelic green rush is here with venture capitalists, health gurus, life coaches, neo shamans, biohackers, and spiritual narcissists lining at the doors to get a piece of the pie. Of course we need a court jester to poke fun at the nonsense, and that's where Dennis Walker, master satirist, comes in. Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next winner will be selected on August 24, 2023 and contacted via email. www.mushroomrevival.com We are a functional mushroom company and make...

The white-nose syndrome is a deadly fungus killing bats around the world and is quickly spreading in North America. We sit down with Alyssa Bennett who's dedicated her life to researching this phenomenon and help these endangered bats. Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next winner will be selected on August 24, 2023 and contacted via email. www.mushroomrevival.com We are a functional mushroom company and make 100% certified USDA Organic and Vegan mushroom supplements. We are...

Today we sit down with almost pro hockey player turned fungal laboratory scientist Mitch Roth. We chat about plant pathogens, DNA sequencing, genetic engineering, fungal biotech, Oomycota, and more. Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next winner will be selected on August 24, 2023 and contacted via email. www.mushroomrevival.com We are a functional mushroom company and make 100% certified USDA Organic and Vegan mushroom supplements. We are transparent with our lab results, and use...

Nature is filled with an incredible array of colors, some of which can only come from mushrooms. We chat with artist Julie Beeler, who has dedicated her life to studying the dyes and pigments from mushrooms, and even created an entire mushroom dye atlas so people can reference what colors from from each mushroom. Join us for this colorful episode. Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next winner will be selected on August 24, 2023 and contacted via email. www.mushroomrevival.com We...

We step into a mad scientist's laboratory to dive deep into the world of magic mushrooms. Doma Nunzio is the founder of MagicMyco, MycoCoil, The Cultivar Cup and has won the Psilocybin Cup. He is a master of magic mushroom genetics making the best cultivars in the world. We dive into the cutting edge research of the field. Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next winner will be selected on July 24, 2023 and contacted via email. www.mushroomrevival.com We are a functional mushroom...

Normally people put posters or paintings on their wall but Chris Ritson is opening up the possibility for people to put living mushroom art in their home. Bioart is the process that people work with biology to make art, and Chris takes it a bit further by making self destructive bioart art, meaning it's meant to naturally decompose in your garden at the end of it's life. Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next winner will be selected on July 24, 2023 and contacted via...

Are mushrooms communicating with each other using electricity? Are we one day able to crack this secret code and decipher this language so one day we'll be able to talk to fungi and mushrooms? Well... quite possibly. Today we sit down with Yu Fukasawa to talk about just this possibility. Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next winner will be selected on June 22, 2023 and contacted via email. www.mushroomrevival.com We are a functional mushroom company and make 100% certified USDA...

Prehistoric animals pooped out mushroom spores as far back as 23,000 years ago and we are now today finding them and learning about what life was like back then. Peat bogs, the bottom of lakes, frozen areas, and amber are all hotspots to find these spores which can even tell us about biodiversity, and when and why mass extinction events happened. We are joined by Dunia Urrego and Felix Pym to dive deep into their research in Colombia. Sign up for our podcast giveaway here. Our next winner...