Cedar Falls Mycology Podcast

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 today is by all definitions a mycologist.  Britt Bunyard is the founder and editor in chief of the magazine “Fungi”  the widest circulating mycology magazine in North America.  He is also the executive director of the Telluride Mushroom Festival.  He has authored several books including “Amanita’s Of North America”, “Mushrooms and Macrofungi of Ohio and Midwestern States”, “The Beginners Guide to Mushrooms” and “the Little Book of Mushrooms.”  Today we are going to discuss an array of topics including, ethical harvesting and his 2022 definitive book titled “The Lives of Fungi,  A Natural History of Our Planets Decomposers.”

 

We are podcasting from The Cedar Falls Tree house in beautiful North Bend Washington.  The Cedar Falls Treehouse is a mycology education facility available through Airbnb.  Come join us for a magical evening immersed in the fascinating world of Fungi.

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 North Bend Washington.  The Cedar falls treehouse is a mycology education facility available through Airbnb.  Come join us for a magical evening immersed in the fascinating world of Fungi.

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 authors of these types of books a huge debt of gratitude.  It is incredibly important that these books even exist because, , wherever you're at in your pursuit of mycology, there's always something to learn. That’s  probably one of the main reasons why a lot of us keep coming back to the never ending rabbit hole that is mycological science.

 

This book reads like a college level textbook. It's got everything you would want to know about Fungi in one book,  Accurate information delivered with photos, and also with illustrations and graphs that to really make it very obtainable  information.  If you do a brief Google search for Mycology Text Book you will quickly find a bunch of expensive and obtrusive books,  a lot of which are probably out dated.

 

You know, if you were teaching a college level, mycology class, you could just hand this book out to your students and you could say, “here memorize this book, and, come back at the end of the semester and there's gonna be a test. Um, if you don't feel like taking a college level mycology class, you can just read this book yourself and memorize it, and then, you know, you're there. You got, a very good foundation and, like I said,  this is information that is current, which is important.

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 journey into the mycology rabbit hole they guarantee this festival will inspire something new.  Our guest today is David Rogers.  David is a mushroom farmer and owns Maddies Mushrooms in Port Angeles Washington.   David is also the organizer of the Olympic Peninsula Fungi Festival our fascinating topic of todays episode.  So let’s get started....