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 again. Steve and Sam of OM Mushrooms have been doing just that and growing fast into the myco-obsessed market over the last 5 years. But their stories didn't begin just half a decade ago. Steve Farrar an...

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 the next morning! One of the most mysterious characters to show, arrived in a feathered bowler hat with a grin soaked in mycological-stoke…you know the kind of smile, paired with those slightly sunke...

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 the one and only @alan_rockefeller a few months back. Julian's work is focused on the development of a haploid culture bank for the purpose of getting folks into breeding his collection of isolates....

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 to the stoke and the stone cold assessments of any given situation, object or attempt to avoid a phone call, delicately entwined with all the dark humor one might hope to muster in a lifetime. Japan,...

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 Mighty Cap, a super clean and well organized grow, to give us a tour around. There are two personalities that can compliment one another in an extremely beneficial way in this industry and Chris and...

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 into sclerotia forming p. tampanensis cultivation sometime around 2008 due to the prohibition of magic mushrooms by the Dutch government. Years before the ban on the actual fruitbodies, my childhood...

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 free atop the boxcars dead set on the western sunsets. They stand for experience and true freedom in this land of insanity. Their Ginsberg-ian will to be weird projects outward in the most endearing way...

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 cultivators and it will ultimately snap back to mushrooms like an elastic band to itself. The draw and intrigue is too intense for the majority of us to stray far from. We stay up late into the...

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! But an almost decade long battle to get his stolen land back in Malo, WA was not one of them. I’ve spent the better part of two years in conversations with Marc, going back and forth from the east...

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 in its appearance, the dials are finely tuned and honed in on simplicity which leaves breathing room for actually enjoying the fine art of cultivation. A lot of us who have grow our mushroom businesses...

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 the base of the Olympic Peninsula under a solar eclipse, all the way up to Port Angeles for the 2023 OP Fungi Fest.  All red eyed and road stoked our aim was to give the old school shroomery fans...

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 genuine and bright human. All I knew after a couple of days showing Cyrus around Maine and NH was that it would be imperative to get him and Maggie onto MycoWizards. The story of Maggie and Cyrus is...

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 morphs and develops its own definition of limbs allowing for an observed sense of autonomy. Sometimes we refer to this as making a Monster, building an Entity, generating Something larger than...

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 cultivation. The man was a myth before Daniel and myself rolled on down to his neck of the woods to record this interview. I had heard a lot about Joe over the years and it proved one thing, everyone...

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 terrorist-watch-list after starting numerous Food Not Bombs Chapters across New England throughout my anarchistic youth. The constant ding of the notification bells for the newly formed and...

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 early 2000's and Alex Dorr of Mushroom Revival was one of them! Now with a full line of mushroom health related products, a brand new book and a booming podcast, Alex has transcended beyond his...

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 and videos for all the MycoWizard's out there! (no one can stand their own voice, can they!?) I remember we were on our way back from the El Diablo Run in Mexico, so I had a good 3500 miles to think...

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!  This is our first go interviewing someone a bit outside of the cultivation sphere, but our guest today has a lot of experience conversating with cultivators and other "myco-preneur's" from around the globe. Today we bring to you Dennis Walker of the Mycopreneur Podcast! He has seemingly endless personas...

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!  Maddies mushrooms is a small, family run, gourmet mushroom farm in the northwest corner of Washington state. David and family decided to begin mushroom farming after the birth of their daughter Maddie in 2020. Their family has always been very passionate about eating healthy local food. Seeing a void for...

Sam Shoemaker, what a dude after my own heart. When you are born with an art brain and have an art background, you simply cannot help but look at life and all of your undertakings through that creative brain lens...and thank goodness! The world would be a lot more dull without the art nerd factor, there would be no MycoWizards and there would be no MycoMyco if that were the case. Sam has built a farm, developed an art career and carved an educational path out of his medium of choice, mycelium...

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!  While we have a million and one new interviews with all the greatest cultivators from around the globe coming your way, we figured why not release some detailed mycological nerdiness to please the masses in between interview releases! We get so many questions in our inboxes and some stick out, eventually...

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!  Straight from the mushroom capital of the world, we bring you a sit down with Lou Caputo, the main man behind Kennett Square Specialties. From cleaning fruit rooms, to running around with a generator during power outages, he's done it all. He is leaving a generational imprint on this beautiful mess we...

Mickey from Little Acre Gourmet Mushrooms out of little ol Australia got gifted the ultimate dream of any emerging mushroom cultivator, a paid for trip around the globe visiting every farm he could possibly hit along the way. Over the last few months Mickey and his partner Amy have made their way from Singapore to Japan and China, through Europe and the entire continental USA, hitting up as many mushroom farms as humanly possible...dude even got his hands on some of that tasty bacon from...

Oh my, oh my, the time has come to do this MycoWizards thing for REAL! We are loading up on cameras and gear to make two tours of the US this summer and record with some of the best cultivators in the industry…Roger Rabbit Episode Two you say?! You f*****g know it! We have so much on the horizon that we are boiling over with stoke and we are ready to pierce through the blacktop, drifting state to state to bring myco-stories from their points of origin directly to you on your farm. So stay...