The Mushroom Hour Podcast

1 hour 12 minutes
Ep. 200: Mycorrhizal Community Assembly, Soil Carbon and Fungal Necromass (feat. Dr. Peter Kennedy)
GUEST:
- https://cbs.umn.edu/directory/peter-kennedy
- https://cbs.umn.edu/kennedy-lab
MENTIONS:
MUSHROOM HOUR:
Show Music courtesy of the one and only Chris Peck: https://peckthetowncrier.bandcamp.com/
TOPICS COVERED:
- PNW Mushroom Foraging & Panama Research
- Community Assembly of Mycorrhizal Fungi
- Fungi as Rulebreakers
- Latitudinal Gradient of Diversity & Tree Density
- Deterministic vs Stochastic Assembly
- Seed Banks & Spore Banks
- Saprotrophs vs Decomposers
- Gadgil Effect - Impact of Mycorrhizal Fungi on Soil Carbon Cycling
- Ushering in Next Generation of Ecologists & Scientists
- Fungal Necromass
- Ancient Carbon Made of Microbes – Especially Fungi!
- Melanin and Decomposition of Dead Mycelium
14 April 2026, 2:00 pm
1 hour 1 minute
Ep. 199: Natural Navigator - How to Read Trees, Water and Sky Footprints (feat. Tristan Gooley)
GUEST:
- https://www.naturalnavigator.com/books-and-library/
- https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/thenaturalnavigator
MENTIONS:
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-and-slow
MUSHROOM HOUR:
Show Music courtesy of the one and only Chris Peck: https://peckthetowncrier.bandcamp.com/
TOPICS COVERED:
- The Art of Navigation and Shaping a Journey
- Relying on the Natural World for Navigation
- Planning Grand Expeditions
- Journeys and the Path of Personal Development
- Navigation in Historical Accounts and Stories
- Sky Footprints
- How to Read Trees
- Creating Maps from Nature’s Systems, Organisms and Inanimate Objects
- Navigation as a Fundamental Human Skill
- Routine and Mindfulness
- Visualizing a Natural Navigator’s Mental Map
- How to Read Water
- Nothing is Random and Everything is Connected
4 April 2026, 6:00 pm
1 hour 2 minutes
Ep. 198: Red House Architecture – Pioneering Mycelium Materials in Namibia, Cleveland & Outer Space (feat. Christopher Maurer)
GUEST:
- https://www.redhousearchitecture.org/
- https://www.instagram.com/redhousestudioarchitecture
MENTIONS:
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=A6Ud3q0AAAAJ&hl=en
- https://www.namibian.com.na/meet-the-trees-of-namibia-the-black-thorn-tree-acacia-mellifera-subsp-detinens-part-1/
MUSHROOM HOUR:
Show Music courtesy of the one and only Chris Peck: https://peckthetowncrier.bandcamp.com/
TOPICS COVERED:
- Mycohab – Turning Namibia’s Blackthorn Bush into Food and Housing
- Fungal Architecture and Mycotecture
- Adjusting Substrate, Species, Environment
- Melanin-Rich Fungi
- World’s First Structural Mycelium House
- Strength of Mycoblocks vs Concrete
- Biocycler – Mycelium Design for the Redeveloping World
- Fungi Recycling Demolished Homes and Growing New Structures
- Fungal Remediation After Disasters
- Getting Mycelium Materials Accepting into Building Codes
- Processes to Create Red House’s Mycelium Materials
- Inflatable Mycelium Structures Colonizing Space
- Mycelium Aerogels with Cyanobacteria as Substrate
20 February 2026, 4:00 pm
54 minutes 59 seconds
Ep. 197: Mycocosmic - Underworlds, Hope, Poetry & Fungal Intelligence (feat. Lesley Wheeler)
GUEST:
- https://lesleywheeler.org/mycocosmic/
- https://www.wlu.edu/profile/wheeler-lesley
MENTIONS:
- https://www.britannica.com/topic/Venus-of-Willendorf
MUSHROOM HOUR:
Show Music courtesy of the one and only Chris Peck: https://peckthetowncrier.bandcamp.com/
TOPICS COVERED:
- Everyone is Becoming an Eco-Poet
- Fungal Narratives
- Poetry as a Process of Listening and Observing
- Washington and Lee University
- Into the Underworld
- Good Things Come Through Fire
- Mycocosmic
- The Under-Poem
- A World of Hope
- Healing and Transforming Trauma in a Productive Way
- Escaping the Digital through Fungi
- Impact of AI on College Education
- Authenticity Will Always be Valuable
- Inspiration through Fungal Intelligence
23 November 2025, 5:00 am
1 hour 27 seconds
Ep. 196: Think Fungi - Ottawa's Crown Lands & the Great North American Fungi Quest (feat. Robert Courteau)
GUEST:
- https://thinkfungi.org/
- https://www.instagram.com/thinkfungi/
MENTIONS:
MUSHROOM HOUR:
Show Music courtesy of the one and only Chris Peck: https://peckthetowncrier.bandcamp.com/

TOPICS COVERED:
- The Road to Becoming a Chef
- Mushroom Hunting in Prague
- Geography and Ecology of Ottawa
- Rugged Landscapes of the “Crown Lands”
- Bloodthirsty Insect Swarms
- Impacts of Land Use and Zoning Designations
- Go-To Chanterelle Soup
- Record-breaking Puffball Mushrooms
- Cleaning, Storing, Cooking
- Think Fungi Mission
- Cultivation and Identification Courses
- The Great North American Fungi Quest
12 October 2025, 11:00 pm
58 minutes 18 seconds
Ep. 195: Oaklore - Adventures in a World of Extraordinary Trees (feat. Jules Acton)
GUEST:
- https://x.com/julesacton?lang=en
- https://shop.woodlandtrust.org.uk/oaklore
MENTIONS:
MUSHROOM HOUR:
Show Music courtesy of the one and only Chris Peck: https://peckthetowncrier.bandcamp.com/
TOPICS COVERED:
- Importance of Oaks Around the World
- Biogeography of Oaks
- Oak Diseases & Conservation Efforts
- Mycorrhizal Relationships & Biological Markets
- England’s Ancient Oaks
- How an Oak Saved a King
- Faerie Doors
- The Big Belly Oak & the Devil
- Goddess Worship with Chicken of the Woods
- The Woodland Trust
- Oaklore
24 August 2025, 10:00 am
59 minutes 26 seconds
Ep. 194: The Bristol Fungarium - History, Science and Healing Potential of Fungi
GUEST:
- https://bristolfungarium.com/
- https://www.instagram.com/bristolfungarium/
MENTIONS:
MUSHROOM HOUR:
Show Music courtesy of the one and only Chris Peck: https://peckthetowncrier.bandcamp.com/
TOPICS COVERED:
- Traveling, Creating Schools, Becoming an Organic Farmer
- Henry the First
- UK Strains of Ganoderma, Hericium, Trametes and Pluerotus
- Running a Mushroom Farm
- Funding a Local PhD Program
- Tincture Extraction Processes
- Neuroinflammation, Parkinsons and Alzheimers
- Insulin Regulation from Maitake and Lions Mane
- Ergothioneine - Soil Health and Human Brain Health
- Eat More Mushrooms
- Coping and Searching for Answers in Longevity
- Realities of US & UK Modern Medicinal Mushroom Industry and Supply Chain
- Unique Reishi Mushroom Industry in China
- Researching Targeted Treatments Using Fungal Compounds
21 July 2025, 5:00 am
57 minutes 33 seconds
Ep. 193: Appalachian Forager - Go Forth and Forage (feat. Whitney Johnson)
GUEST:
MENTIONS:
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/bluegrassmycological/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydnum_repandum
MUSHROOM HOUR:
Show Music courtesy of the one and only Chris Peck: https://peckthetowncrier.bandcamp.com/
TOPICS COVERED:
- Beginner Foraging Foibles
- "Go Forth and Forage"
- Appalachian Mountain Range
- Foraging in a Kentucky Forest
- Learn Your Trees
- Making Science Observations While Foraging
- Hilljack Girl on TikTok
- Creating a Mushroom Guidebook
- Internal vs External Inspiration
- Textures and Flavor Profiles of Wild Mushrooms
- Preserving Mushrooms Through the Seasons
21 June 2025, 4:00 pm
59 minutes 47 seconds
Ep. 192: Wildwise Botanicals & Mycology in the Ozarks (feat. Michael Snyder)
GUEST:
- https://www.wildwisebotanicals.com/
- https://www.instagram.com/wildwisebotanicals/
MENTIONS:
MUSHROOM HOUR:
Show Music courtesy of the one and only Chris Peck: https://peckthetowncrier.bandcamp.com/
TOPICS COVERED:
- Growing up in Rural Ozarks
- Crohns Disease
- Wild Medicine
- Homesteading and Homeschooling
- The Ozarks as an Understudied Bioregion
- Missouri Mycological Society
- Maxine Stone
- Certified Mushroom Identifiers
- Developing Mushroom Certification Courses
- Genetic Sequencing
- Wildwise Botanicals
- “Foraging Mushrooms of the Ozarks”
7 June 2025, 1:00 am
58 minutes 48 seconds
Ep. 191: Mycoventures - Celebrating Culinary Mushrooms in Community (feat. Julie Schreiber)
GUEST:
- https://chezjulies.com/
- https://www.instagram.com/chezjuliesconsultingwinemaker/
MENTIONS:
MUSHROOM HOUR:
Show Music courtesy of the one and only Chris Peck: https://peckthetowncrier.bandcamp.com/
TOPICS COVERED:
- Cafe Beaujolais
- Cook Your Mushrooms
- Mycoventures
- SOMA & NAMA
- Mushrooms + Skillet
- Expanding Vocabulary of Descriptors for Smell and Taste
- The Magic of Cooking Together
- Future of Culinary Mushrooms
- Underappreciated Russulas and Suillus
- Community Cookbooks
- NAMA Mushroom Cooking Competition
- Licensing and Importance of Consumer Education
- Don’t Let Your Mushrooms Spoil – Preservation Techniques
5 May 2025, 7:00 am
55 minutes 38 seconds
Ep. 190: Myco-Molasses, Mushroom Extracts and the Powers of Fermentation (feat. Wade Fox)
GUEST:
- https://www.instagram.com/foxamongbears/
- https://www.patreon.com/foxamongbears
MENTIONS:
MUSHROOM HOUR:
Show Music courtesy of the one and only Chris Peck: https://peckthetowncrier.bandcamp.com/
TOPICS COVERED:
- Koji Saving Lives
- Aspergillus oryzae
- Process of Fermentation
- Finding Creativity in Limitations
- Capturing Enzymes in Fermentation
- Safety & Nutrient Density in Mushroom Extracts
- Better Farming with Fermentation
- Safety & Nutrient Density in Mushroom Extracts
- Developing Better Medicinal Mushroom Extractions with Fermentation
- Bioavailability and Bio-efficiency
- Myco-molasses
- Shaking up the Medicinal Mushroom Extract Industry
18 April 2025, 7:00 am
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