Cedar Falls Mycology Podcast

Alright good people  Welcome to episode number 22, “The World's Most Famous Mushroom”  ... Today’s guest and today’s mushroom really  don’t need an  introduction, but I’m gonna give them one anyway...

Our guest is Eugenia Bone, Eugenia is an investigative journalist who focuses on mycology, she is a film star and more significantly,  she joined  us as a guest on the Cedar Falls Mycology Podcast Episode number 4 where we talked about her book “Have A Nice Trip”.  She also wrote the excellent book called Mycophilia and was the lead author on the “Fantastic Fungi” cookbook which was created to accompan...

Greetings everyone. This is Tim Leavitt from Cedar Falls Mycology,   Welcome to Episode #21 of the  podcast where we ask ourselves not what the fungi can do for us... But what we can do  for the fungi.  Join us as we explore the world of Fungi... a world not more complex than you think but more complex than you can think.

On today’s episode we are going to talk with Britt Bunyard about the Telluride Mushroom Festival.  Britt Bunyard is a world esteemed mycologist.  He is the editor of Fungi Magazine, the author of several excellent books and the...

All right, good people. Welcome to episode #20 where we are going to talk with Dr. Rob Silver about his new book “There is a Mushroom for that” Learn How Mushrooms, Cannabis and Integrative Medicine Help Your Pets Live Long and Healthy lives.   This book is a guide to managing your pets' health.  

We love to talk about mycozooism on this show,  that is the interconnectedness of fungi and animals.  We have mentioned on this show several times that animals and Fungi share a common ancestor and that Animals and Fungi are much more closely related to Animal...

Alright good people, welcome to episode #19 where we are going to discuss the book “Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless”  with the author Maria Pinto.  This book is not a textbook about fungi.. It’s more of a mycozooistic memoir about things Maria has learned from her interactions and her personal relationship with fungi throughout the years.

Maria starts her book with a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson so we’re gonna start this episode by reading that.

“Nature,  through all her kingdoms, ensures herself. Nobody cares for planting the poor fungus: so she shakes down from the gills of one...

On Today’s episode we are going to talk about the Puget Sound Mycological Society commonly called the PSMS.  We actually have two guests here today and they are co-chairs of the PSMS Education department. The first is Danny Miller.  Danny helps to design and teach the curriculum for the club’s mycology classes.  He is also the club Librarian, and ID Committee co-ordinator and he is an emergency poisoning point person for King County Poison Control. Our second guest is mycologist Wren Hudgins.  Wren has been a member of PSMS for 49 years. He teaches identification classes, trains foraging guides a...

Greetings everyone. This is Tim Leavitt from Cedar Falls Mycology,  We also have my co-host Dan Sullivan here today.   Welcome to Episode #17 of the  podcast where we ask ourselves not what the fungi can do for us... But what we can do  for the fungi.  Join us as we explore the world of Fungi... a world not more complex than you think but more complex than you can think.

Today’s guest is  the well rounded mycologist Graham Steinruck.   Graham is a renown mushroom chef and taxonomist.   He is the founder of the Biodiversity Collective a project f...

Greetings everyone. This is Tim Leavitt from Cedar Falls Mycology,   Welcome to Episode #16 of the  podcast where we ask ourselves not what the fungi can do for us... But what we can do  for the fungi.  Join us as we explore the world of Fungi... a world not more complicated than you think but more complicated than you can think.

Todays episodes guest is Colin Domnauer.  Colin is a professor and phd student at The University of Utah and works with with the fungi esteemed Dentinger Lab and the  Natural History Museum of Utah .  Colin is a Bay...

Greetings everyone. This is Tim Leavitt from Cedar Falls Mycology,   Welcome to Episode #15 of the  podcast where we ask ourselves not what the fungi can do for us... But what we can do  for the fungi.  Join us as we explore the world of Fungi... A world not more complicated than you think but more complicated than you can think.

Today's episode is going to be a little different.  It has been brought to my attention that everyone who listens to this has no idea who I am or what we are up to here at the  Cedar...

Greetings everyone. This is Tim Leavitt from Cedar Falls Mycology,   Welcome to Episode #14 of the  podcast where we ask ourselves not what the fungi can do for us... But what we can do  for the fungi.  Join us as we explore the world of Fungi... a world not more complicated than you think but more complicated than you can think.

  This episodes guest is Britt Bunyard.  This is really the episode we have all been waiting for.  While most of our previous guests including Eugenia and Dr. Walker  have stated they are not mycologists.  Our guest toda...

Welcome to episode #13 on todays episode we are going to discuss the fascinating topic of mushroom farming.  We   have  Christian Clarke, owner of Myco Munity Mushrooms here today...Christian is also the fascilitator of the Pacific Northwest Mushroom Producers Network based in Portland Oregon.   The Network (PNWFMGN) consists of growers, researchers, and educators working to expand forest-cultivated mushroom production as a viable enterprise in the Pacific Northwest.

Greetings everyone. This is Tim Leavitt from Cedar Falls Mycology,   Welcome to Episode 12 of the  podcast where we ask ourselves not what the fungi can do for us... but what we can do  for the fungi.   We also  have  DR. George Sellhorn here today.  Dr.  Sellhorn is the co-owner of Flourish Labs in Oregon.   Flourish Labs uses HPLC which stands for High-Performance Liquid Chromatography... HPLC is commonly used in chemical analysis and biochemistry, for example, in the analysis of food or environmental samples or  drugs.

We are podcasting from The Cedar Falls Tree house in beautiful N...

Alright good people,  welcome to episode #11. We have Dr. Fun Guy  himself here, Dr. Gordon Walker, here and we're gonna ask him some Theoretical mycology questions ,but first we're gonna talk a little bit about his new book, “Passport to Kingdom Fungi”. So, as the name implies “Passport to Kingdom Fungi” is your gateway to all things Fungi.

The world of mycology is always changing. , every decade or so, one of these really definitive books comes out and lets everybody know kind of where we're at right now as mycologists. And, you know, we really owe the aut...

Alright Good People welcome to episode #10  today we will be discussing the Olympic Peninsula Fungi Festival.  This festival promotes discovery.., connection, and community. The festival encourages learning about various mycology topics and brings people together.  The festival is held October 18th -19th which is prime mushroom season and is located on the northern end of the Olympic Peninsula, a region renowned for fungi, this festival features lectures,... hands-on workshops,... guided forays,... mushroom cuisine and more from internationally acclaimed experts. There will be live music, a vendors’ market, and even  camping.   So.  no matter where you’re at on your journ...

Greetings everyone. This is Tim Leavitt from Cedar Falls Mycology, Welcome to the  podcast where we ask ourselves not what the fungi can do for us... but what we can do  for the fungi.   We also  have  Jack Cyan here via zoom joimig us from Oregon.   Jack Cyan is really kind of the quintessential Johnny Appleseed character of the pschedlelic mushroom world atleast around the PNW.  Jack runs the wood lovers united FB, This page has 18,000 followers.  and is dedicated to distributing information on growing wood loving mushrooms specifically from the genus Psilocybe. In this episode, we’re going to discuss...

All right, good people. Welcome to episode eight.   Today we’re gonna talk about the book, Mushroom Magik, thats Magik with a ‘k” written by Shawn Engel.  We have Shawn  here on the show and we are going to ask her some questions...

But first I’d like to start by telling everyone the book we are discussing is called “ Mushroom Magik” this name does not refer  to medicinal mushrooms in a traditional sense, or psychedelic mushrooms. We are talking about mushrooms being used in magic for conjuring and spell casting.  Mushrooms have a long history of being a...

Welcome to the  podcast where we ask ourselves not what the fungi can do for us but what we can do  for the fungi. I am super excited to have Daniel Silberstein joining us for this episode.  Danny is one of the founders of Developments in Mycelium Applications otherwise known as DMA. DMA is a virtual course covering the vast potential of fungi-based solutions and entrepreneurship from experts in the Mycelia  realm.    Dani is based in Spain; but DMA is a global collaborative project.

Greetings everyone. This is Tim Leavitt  from Cedar Falls Mycology,   I am super excited to have Caine Barlow joining us for this episode.  Caine Barlow is an Australian mycologist.   He is a fungi educator, an ethnobotanist, an independent researcher, and a Science Writer based in Melbourne.   He regularly gives  lectures on mycology as well as fungi conservation, and  he teaches gourmet mushroom cultivation. You can find him on the Internet as “Guerrilla Mycology”

On this episode we are going to discuss the fascinating topic of Australian Enthnomycology and entheogenesis.   

In this episode, I’m going to do a quick book review on Eugenia’s newest book.  "Have a Good Trip" and then we're going to discuss the fascinating topic of  tripping on psychedelic mushrooms. 

Some of you may know Eugenia as one of the stars in the movie Fantastic Fungi.  She is also responsible for creating the Fantastic Fungi Cookbook that goes along with the movie.   She also wrote the book Mycophilia but today we are going to talk  about her newest book  “Have a Good Trip, Exploring the Magic Mushroom Experience”

 In this episode, I'm going to give a mycological introduction to truffles. Then we'll get into some questions with Dawn about truffle hunting, truffle cooking, and then we'll get into some theoretical mycology questions.

In this episode, we're going to discuss the fascinating topic of  psychedelic therapy.

We will start with some of the questions we can answer...like the legal status of psychedelic therapy... and then we are going ask a few questions that can not be answered.  As was mentioned in the intro to episode 1,  one of the recurring themes on this show is theoretical mycology  by that we mean mycology questions that can not really be answered beyond the point of speculation or opinion

Listeners are introduced to the historical mycozooistic relationship that exists between humans and magic mushrooms.

This first episode introduces listeners to the recurring themes on our show, theoretical mycology, mushrooms and mycozooism.