From non-stop mothers to busy college students, the public eye is fixed on the prospect of betterment. With mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression at an all time high, many are landing feet first on the unorthodox healing path in a pursuit to swap out traditional antidepressants for all-natural earth-derived treatments. Microdosing for anxiety relief has captured the interest of many, as positive results continue to flourish in light of sacred mushroom’s outstanding abilities. In Mushroom News Amidst decades of trepidation following the war on drugs, microdosing has caused a surge ..read more

Welcome to Part I of our “How to Grow” series, where we get into the nitty gritty specifics of cultivating mushroom species from a petri dish to the mushroom fruitbody. For our inaugural installment, we figured we’d zoom in on a shining star in the recent medicinal and gourmet mushroom wave sweeping across the western world: Lion’s Mane, also known as Hericium erinaceus. So hop into your safari jeep and get ready to tame the King of the Jungle as we learn how to grow Lion’s Mane mushrooms! Learning the ways of Lion’s Mane mushrooms is a bit more finicky than simply growing Oyster mushrooms ..read more

Welcome to Part IV of our “How to Grow” series, where we dive into the details of cultivating mushroom species from a petri dish to the mushroom fruit body. Last week, we gave it our best for the Chestnut mushroom. This week, we wanted to take a gaze at Reishi (Ganoderma spp.), the Mushroom of Immortality! So get ready to drink from the elixir of eternal life as we learn how to grow Reishi mushrooms! Reishi is a name used for many different species of basidiomycota mushrooms called Ganoderma. The most famous is Ganoderma lucidum, a hard, conky, saprophytic mushroom that grows from dead tree ..read more

I hope you’re hungry because we’re about to serve up a hope sandwich to humanity! The two main ingredients in today’s dish? Mushrooms and Permaculture, a mouth watering combination full of tasty tangible solutions to satisfy many of humanity’s greatest hungers…we mean challenges. So get ready to mow down as we outline the ethos of permaculture, the various zones in a permaculture design, and how our mushrooms fit into this amazing system "Permaculture is dependent on the prospect for us doing GOOD, not just less bad - and that's really been the driver for a lot of the modern environmenta ..read more

Over the past few years a little known extraction apparatus invented in 1879 known as a Soxhlet extractor has taken the medicinal mushroom extract industry by storm. But what is this fancy looking piece of glass, how does it work and why are people so excited about its application to medicinal—and psychedelic—mushroom extraction?  Enter Sam the Mushroom Man, the owner of Mindfull Mycology, a medicinal mushroom extract company using Soxhlet extractors to make all their extracts. Take it away, Sam! Saturation: The Soxhlet Extractor Sauce  Howdy, folks! It’s Sam the Soxhlet Extrac ..read more

Now that you’ve rifled through our 5 Must-Read Mushroom Books (you’ve read them all by now, right?!), it’s time to put on your rainbow-colored glasses and delve into the world of psychedelia. It doesn’t matter if you’re a bookworm looking for a trippy tome or a seasoned psychonaut looking for some fresh perspective on a well-worn wormhole. With our list of the Top 5 Psychedelic Books, we’ve got the goods to keep your third eye glued to the pages for a long, weird time. So get ready to Turn On, Tune In, and Drop Out, or in this case, Turn on your reading light, Tune into the present, and Drop ..read more

Imagine sitting down to a delicious meal with bacon made from mushroom mycelium in your mycelium insulated home. There’s a knock at your door – a delivery man with your latest online purchase. You hastily remove the mushroom mycelium packaging to find your favorite new mycelium leather shoes. To show off your new regenerative kicks with your friends, you snap a photo with your phone that’s powered by mycelial hyphae. Seem unrealistic? Make no bones about it, this fictitious story may soon be a reality. Welcome to our first Fungi on the Fringe article! In this series, we’ll cover all the in ..read more

Welcome to Part III of our “How to Grow” series, where we dive into the details of cultivating mushroom species from a petri dish to the mushroom fruit body. Last week, we dove to oceanic depths to talk about Oyster mushrooms. This week, we’re roasting Chestnut mushrooms over an open fire. So, grab your fire poker and get the fire crackling; it’s time to learn how to grow Chestnut mushrooms. Cousin to the slimy Nameko mushroom (Pholiota nameko), Chestnut mushrooms (Pholiota adiposa) are quickly growing in popularity due to their unique texture and nutty taste. But good luck finding them. Ot ..read more

Welcome to Part II of our “How to Grow” series, where we dive into the details of cultivating mushroom species from a petri dish to the mushroom fruit body. Last week we looked at Lion’s Mane. This week, we wanted to zoom in on what we at the Fungi Academy like to call the Swiss Army Knife of Fungi: Oyster mushrooms, aka Pleurotus ostreatus. So pull out that red cross bedazzled blade and let’s learn how to grow Oyster mushrooms! Ahhh, the Oyster Mushroom, known for eating practically any substrate and for oftentimes being the first mushroom cultivated by thousands of novice mushroom growers ..read more

When it comes to home scale mushroom cultivation, we at the Fungi Academy believe in the power of mushroom liquid cultures!  Why? They’re easy and cheap to make, extremely scalable, colonize grains far quicker than agar cultures and can be used to make endless more liquid cultures or to inoculate grains in non-sterile environments. Compared to other growing techniques, that’s unprecedented for small-scale growers.  These reasons are why we’ll soon begin to offer liquid cultures on our website, courtesy of the Mushroom Liquid Culture King, Paul of Fungaia.  In this spirit, we t ..read more