Tapping into bioelectrical fields, musical pioneer Michael Allen Z Prime takes us on a journey to learn all about how the acoustic translation of electrical action potentials of fungi may allow us to understand, communicate, cocreate and even dance with mushrooms!
We travel to the Elan Valley in Wales to go on a mushroom safari with wild food expert Daniel Butler while we unpack some of the cultural underpinnings of foraging culture in the UK and in the United States and how an appreciation of wild foods can aid environmental conservation efforts!
We learn about the incredible power of melanin and how fungi are uniquely adapted to utilize melanin in their cells to protect against radioactive particles, from Chernobyl to outer space, with Dr. Ekaterina Dadachova!
We plunge deep into bioremediation, learning about the biochemistry and organisms involved and specifically how fungal organisms, and their many allies, work together within a healthy soil ecosystem to enrich landscapes, remediate pollutants and so more with founder of Integrated Land Enhancement and co-host of the Applied Mycology podcast, Leif Olson!
Prepare for a wild trip with mycology legend, author and pioneer Professor Michael Beug as he guides us through the extraordinary fungal diversity of the Columbia River Gorge his new book "Mushrooms of Cascadia", the modern history of psychedelia, and the healing potentials of mushrooms!
Our journey takes us from China to Canada as we marvel at breathtaking art pieces shaped with mediums like pearls, cicadas and mushrooms make us question our relationship with nature, culture and life itself guided by the talented hand of artist Xiaojing Yan
We travel to Portugal to learn all about truffle hunting, training truffle dogs, surveying woodlands for truffle production and more with veteran UK truffle hunter and trainer Melissa Waddingham!
Generational mushroom farmer Amir Karian takes us behind the scenes into the world of commercial agaricus mushroom farming at Monterey Mushrooms, the frontiers of fungal genetics at Amycel and his own journey seeking out the highest quality medicinal mushroom supplements that saw him found Alchemi Mushrooms!
We take an expedition through the wilds of Scotland to learn about the power of herbal medicines, the inner universes of microbiomes all around us and the realities of living for a year on only wild food with forager, research herbalist and ethnobotanist Monica Wilde!
We take a deep dive into taxonomy to learn how a fungus gets its name, how scientists attempt to group these enigmatic organisms into "family" "genus" or "species" and how these efforts, married with the efforts of amateur naturalists, are central to fungal conservation with accomplished mycologist Else Vellinga!
The mystical, and oft maligned, world of Psilocybin mushrooms opens up before us as we are guided on a journey to understand, cultivate and create culinary delights using "magic mushrooms" with authors and researchers Dr. K Mandrake and Virginia Haze!
We wade into vast swathes of history and analyze cultural perspectives as we examine the roots of western, institutional "Science", how new concepts like "queer theory" and "queer ecology" inform scientific discourse and how mycology can be considered a queer discipline, with activist and scientist Dr. Patricia Kaishian!
