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About MycoWizards

Welcome, MycoWizards of the World! If you’re here that means you have within you either a burgeoning fungal curiosity, a need to do some mycological trouble-shooting or you require some on-brand chatter to drown the drone of the flow hood while those plates stack up! Well, you have followed the mycelial network to the right place. Every other Friday (pretty much,) we deliver a new episode, oozing with metabolites. We may be diving into a common problem among commercial mushroom farmers, chatting with growers, scientists, enthusiasts, or submerging ourselves in the latest cutting edge cultivation technology! Join us and our host Erik Lomen as we descend further into this madness that is MycoWizardry! Become a full fledged MycoWizard now! Check out https://mycowizards.com/ (https://mycowizards.com/) to find out how! USE CODE "WIZARDPOD" AT CHECKOUT TO GET 30 DAYS OF FREE DEEPDIVES

Publisher

Erik Lomen

Category

arts · business · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

9 Jan 2021

Latest episode

27 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 84 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   27 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Catawba Mushroom Partners: Ryan Hollums

   Host Paul Stamets interviews mycologist Ryan Hollums about cultivating resilient mushroom partnerships for winter growth.

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   6 Sept 2025

   Feral Fungi

   Jason Scott's mystical spagyric tinctures have held a place in a lot of our myco-brains since first glimpse at his massive stacks of soxhlets and glassware towering from counter tops like a city scape of an alchemical alter. The reductive nature of "modern science" has boiled down complex mystery and subsequent discovery into single source solutions as the silver bullet search continues. In this day and age we endless seek out "the" source, the seeking and the seeker are removed from mytholog...

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   16 May 2025

   Will MacHugh and The Shiitake Battlefield

   Will MacHugh is a Washington state based mushroom farmer with a long standing background in the world of agriculture. He has grown fast and smart and he has noticed what a lot of us are too busy to do much about...the importation of extremely cheap shiitake logs from China. Will has assembled this website as well as this simple survey ... If you are a mushroom farmer in the US do us all a favor and FILL IT OUT! Together we can level the playing fields and bolster up the emerging domestic indu...

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Catawba Mushroom Partners: Ryan Hollums

Published 27 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] It's really like, It's your biggest investment as a boiler. I mean, I've had a number of like folks call recently and they're really diligent. They remind me of like Jason Giffen from Maritime when he first came to the farm and he's building out his facility and he's just taking everything in. He is like focusing on everything every farm was doing to try and figure out what they're doing wrong, they're doing right. And he's very diligent. And I feel like this mentality is kind of carrying forward for a lot of mushroom growers because there's enough media out there now. It's a million YouTube channels, you know. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

30 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

79 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 54 / 100

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72

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

92

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