Podcasts

Off to England, a land of ancient oak trees, we find ourselves under a canopy with Jules Acton, author of Oaklore, to wander through tales of oaks that shaped kingdoms, sheltered faeries, and still stand as living sentinels of ecology, myth, and conservation.

We visit the Bristol countryside for an advanced course in medicinal mushroom farming, commercial supply chains and the realities of making medicinal mushroom products with Tom Baxter of the Bristol Fungarium as our guide!

We roll through the woods of Kentucky exploring the local ecology, looking for wild mushrooms and just developing our hillbilly skills with the author of "Go Forth and Forage", Appalachian Forager Whitney Johnson as our guide!

We get lost in the beautiful Ozark mountains on a quest to learn more about this underexplored bioregion and uncover a growing community of mycologists in the Missouri Mycological Society who are creating courses and certifications for foragers with Michael Synder of Wildwise Botanicals as our guide!

We wander the Mendo-Sonoma coast searching for delicious wild mushrooms that we cook alongside cultivated gourmets over an open fire, accompanied by friends and fine wine, with forager, chef and winemaker Julie Schreiber as our guide!

In this episode, we journey into the bubbling world of fermentation with Wade Fox—a curious mind bridging fungi, food, and alchemy. From koji and cordyceps to myco-molasses and enzyme extraction, we explore how fermentation can unlock new possibilities in farming, medicinal mushroom extracts and more!

We journey to the frontiers of fungal genetics at Mycota Labs, the non-profit genetics lab leading a continent-wide effort to document fungal biodiversity in North America with lab founder Stephen Russell!

On our latest venture to England we practice foraging techniques to commune with the forest and lower our cortisol levels as we learn about how the undeniable medicinal potentials of mushrooms, including the notorious Amanita muscaria, could help to evolve modern medicine with biologist and forager Alexandra Lea!

We explore Russia's Kamchatka peninsula, face the horrifying pollution of the "Amazon Chernobyl" in Bolivia and fight for conservation as geopolitical activism in Ecuador's Los Cedros bioreserve with mycologist Daniel Newman as our guide. 

On our trip to a Colorado workshop full of big ideas and blazing ambition, we see fleets of mobile mushroom farms transformed from old semi-trailers and marvel at electro-fuel cells set to radically change the fuel consumption paradigm with high-impact technologist, and fungitarian, Inventor Michael!

We bear witness to a soil revolution as a cultural appreciation of the complex ecosystems within our soils that supports all life gives our society hope for the future with creative energy behind "Kiss the Ground" and "Common Ground" documentaries, Ryland Engelhart!

We explore the compounds that give mushrooms their medicinal properties -beta glucans, terpenes, ergosterol and ergothioneine as we explore medicinal mushrooms many uses including how they can support mothers before, during and after pregnancy with naturopathic physician Dr. Anna Sitkov as our guide!