Best Erik Lomen Podcasts (2025)

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Will MacHugh and The Shiitake Battlefield 48:33

16d ago48:33

48:33

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 ar…

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MycoWizards Broadcast Ep: 20 12:06

2M ago12:06

12:06

In this crazy beautiful world we live in, we forget how connected we are. Who would of thunk that flowers and mushrooms needed each other.. Not I.. But im no Mycologist. In todays episode Erik and Gregor talk about the connection between orchids and mycelium and how to work together to produce one of the most beautiful flowers we know and love. ALS…

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MycoWizards Broadcast Ep: 19 14:58

3M ago14:58

14:58

And then there was fungi. What's new in the mushroom world? Bipartisan group of Pennsylvania members to re-introduce Bill protecting mushroom farmers. Things in the mushroom capital of the world are shaking up. Work forces, automation and lack there of. We talk about it all in 1 of our two episodes this week! https://www.thecorryjournal.com/news/ar…

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MycoWizards Broadcast Ep: 18 13:25

3M ago13:25

13:25

Leaving brown town and cruising towards ultra violet summer. What to do with cauliflower lions and why UV water filtration is a thing you should do! IF YOU WANT TO BE ENTERED TO WIN ONE OF OUR GIVEAWAYS, GO TO https://mycowizards.com/join_us AND BECOME A MEMBER AT ANY LEVEL! SHIRTS, MERCH, AGAR AND LIQUID CULTURES ARE UP FOR GRABS TO ALL MYCOWIZARD…

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MycoWizards Broadcast Ep: 17 14:21

3M ago14:21

14:21

How do you say mushroom in french? They won't take husbands, but they will take farmers. Trust us, we tried. Also, buttons are better in other places. Apparently an infinite growth mindset does bad things to crops. Weird. IF YOU WANT TO BE ENTERED TO WIN ONE OF OUR GIVEAWAYS, GO TO https://mycowizards.com/join_us AND BECOME A MEMBER AT ANY LEVEL! S…

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MycoWizards Broadcast Ep: 16 13:39

3M ago13:39

13:39

So we failed Mechanical Dedikaryotization. But that wont stop us! Today we talk with Gregor Jones about his findings and what we can improve on as we take the next steps in our fungal journey! ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation i…

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MycoWizards Broadcast Ep: 15 15:33

3M ago15:33

15:33

What are mushrooms good for if not a final resting place? take a took at one of this weeks episodes where Erik and Mike chat about the many uses for these funny shapes of water we call mushrooms! ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovatio…

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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep14 14:33

3M ago14:33

14:33

Tumultuous tariffs and other manure. Today's broadcast is all about poor leadership decisions from the top and how/why farmers need some buttressing for their sh*t umbrellas and a red ribbon road of loopholes to cartwheel through just to stay afloat. Beware the suits and grow your fruits, fam. ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.c…

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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep13 17:04

3M ago17:04

17:04

Do you have a good Morel code? We like to think we do. Or at least we know of folks who do... Murder, mayhem and corporate tomfoolery abound in todays broadcast all about the mighty morel and how yes, you can cultivate them if you happen to be a pair of Norwegian twin genius'. This and more, including our first t-shirt GIVEAWAY!!! ALSO Check out wh…

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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep 12 16:05

4M ago16:05

16:05

When you ask, We answer! tune information our second broadcast this week where Erik and Daniel hash out some basic ideas and answers to supplementation for our friends around the world and in the states! Mead! Aliens with middle fingers! Daniels exhaustion, the whole thing and a bag of chips. ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.co…

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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep11 13:16

4M ago13:16

13:16

And then there was space! come check out one of this weeks episodes with Gregor Jones! We talk NASA. We talk Space. We talk about things that don't belong in our face. Just kidding. ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this spac…

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Highland Fungi: David Medlock 1:58:53

4M ago1:58:53

1:58:53

David Medlock of Highland Fungi has been sending me the most incredible papers and research articles on all things fungi over the entirety of 2024. He has an unwavering dedication to obsessively digging for details to generate solutions to extremely complicated issues in the cultivation of the 5th kingdom. With a background in all things fabricatio…

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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep10 14:59

4M ago14:59

14:59

A royal pardon for the founder of the Silk Road. What could it mean? What new precedent has been set? What do we know? Not much, but tune in and find out anyway. ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more! USE…

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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep9 16:13

4M ago16:13

16:13

Tony Bag-of-Donuts should not be in charge of shipping. Today the boys chat about the importance of refrigerated shipping and why CNS ain't here to ship it dry! Its bodies in bags, cellular death, overheated trash and more of that good Doom you've come to love! ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep div…

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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep8 14:45

4M ago14:45

14:45

Like a bad idea, mushrooms can grow anywhere and on anything... and apparently anyone? From amphibians to your dorm room wallpaper, if conditions are right, the mycelial network will adopt your components and make them their own! Learn more about this weirdness in today's episode and stay tuned for more giveaways! ALSO Check out what's new over at …

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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep7 17:23

4M ago17:23

17:23

Can you eat Chestnut mushrooms and poop gold? Or maybe still it down and cure cancer in mice? We don't know but we're figuring it out in this beautiful Monday broadcast! So grab your pets and some tasty mushrooms cause it's gunna be a messy ride! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35363110/ ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com whe…

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Open Fung: Phil Ross 1:47:22

4M ago1:47:22

1:47:22

Phil Ross is a legend in the bay area myco-space. If you don’t know him, I suggest you start with the first video that really propelled Phil and the idea of myco-materials into the world entitled "Built With the Cleanest Technology on Earth: Nature" … Within this short video made only eight years ago, the fungal-bug that had and continues to bite u…

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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep6 18:04

4M ago18:04

18:04

The follies of those fallen to the orange reaper; neurospora. Generalization vs. Specialization, who wins that particular apocalypse? Don't put all your eggs in one super sack, the rolling giveaways continue! These talking points and more, on today's MycoWizards Broadcast. ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have roll…

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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep5 14:17

4M ago14:17

14:17

Around the States in 80... mushroom festivals. The epoch of shroomie industry that sprang this phenomenon into being, what its like being recognized out in the world, navigating a jet-setting livelihood while being married to a farm, flow hood giveaway and more! ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep di…

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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep4 8:56

5M ago8:56

8:56

R.I.P. capnstem Instagram account. Mike and Erik talk about what it the meta verse has done to us and many mushroom farms alike and what we can do moving forward to combat and rebel against the powers that be! ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment…

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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep3 10:26

5M ago10:26

10:26

This broadcast from the secret lair brings you the cordy culture mafia, gatecrashing gatekeepers, Militaris tides a' rising and one dazed and confused co-host. Bespoke scientific article here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gxqBeIbpvyYTtMGPyu3yiw2vimbfPIfd/view?usp=sharing ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rol…

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MadCap Mushrooms: Blake and Lindsey 2:25:13

5M ago2:25:13

2:25:13

The mythical Ween-loving duo of MadCap Mushrooms, Blake and Lindsey, jammed gears from the cold mountains of Vermont over to the blistery doom of Maine for what started as a tour of Cap N Stem and turned into a fully fledged podcast recording session! This podcast was recorded using the antiquated old mics from our earliest episodes, lending a qual…

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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep2 13:53

5M ago13:53

13:53

Deadly fungi and disinformation debunking is on the table for this episode of Broadcasts. News media sensationalizing a bummer story while demonizing a substance that wasn't even at the party. ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation i…

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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep1 15:07

5M ago15:07

15:07

WELCOME ONE AND ALL To the first episode in our new MycoWizards News segment! In this episode we discuss what's new in the realm of organic certification and what that means for new mushroom farmers, old mushroom farmers and dog food food producers alike. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/12/23/2024-30211/national-organic-program-marke…

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Wumbo Genetics 1:53:37

5M ago1:53:37

1:53:37

One of the best parts about 2024's mushroom festival jaunt was running into Max of @wumbogenetics at the @farwestfungievents and the @okmushroomfestival ... Max is on a mission from fungi, dedicated to perpetually developing a suite of myco-products, refining a variety of lab processes and protocols as well building connections in the cultivation c…

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Dr. Sara Webb: Mycelium In Microgravity 1:02:29

6M ago1:02:29

1:02:29

The last thing I thought we'd be involved in when I first started cultivated mushrooms was sending phenotypes to space! If I step back and assess how we got here it absolutely blows my mind. Many mushrooms farmers, many entrepreneurs in general, have a solid sense of imposter syndrome...but here we are, It's 2024 and we are awaiting the arrival of …

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Flying Saucer Farms: Clint Jurek 1:40:09

6M ago1:40:09

1:40:09

Clint Jurek of Flying Saucer Farms has cultivated, conquered, fulfilled the desire and is on his way out of the mycological world! It’s always a challenge to accurately describe just how wild and intense the rampant growth rate of decentralized mushroom cultivators in the US has been. From 2008 until today the number of “commercial cultivators” wit…

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Sno Valley Mushrooms: Will Lockmiller 1:49:28

7M ago1:49:28

1:49:28

It’s easy to get pulled into the groundswell of hyper fixated myco-nerds at a mushroom festival. At some point after this conversation you are about to hear, Will Lockmiller of Sno Valley Mushrooms, Roger Rabbit and Robert Rogers, collected myself and Danielle Stevenson to go join Will and his partner for dinner at an obscure and hidden gem of an O…

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Tiger Sawgill: Thomas Roehl 1:15:40

7M ago1:15:40

1:15:40

Lentinus Tigrinus AKA the "Tiger Sawgill" mushroom is something that has fascinated a handful of mycologists for a long stretch of time. From a fungal evolutionary standpoint, it is a mushroom with a long stretch of phylogenetic-flux. The current fruitbodies develop as a rather straight forward "agaricoid" form while simultaneously exhibiting a "se…

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Dedikaryotization: Gregor Jones 47:40

8M ago47:40

47:40

We have spent an incredible amount of time thus far tearing into our infamously high yielding commercial dikaryons to develop a gourmet monokaryon culture bank here at Cap N Stem. The goal at the end of the day is to understand these monokaryons on a deeper level and to develop new breeding programs. Last week we launched our expansive episode on t…

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North Spore: Eliah Thanhauser 2:01:38

8M ago2:01:38

2:01:38

It took over a decade but I finally got the chance to sit down with Eliah Thanhauser of North Spore and discuss our long and interwoven histories in the Maine mushroom industry. North Spore has excelled in so many things through their explosive growth in the myco-sphere. Co-evolving alongside of them has been an amazing ride full of insight and cha…

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MyCoLove Farm 2:41:43

8M ago2:41:43

2:41:43

Become A MycoWizard today at www.mycowizards.com! Shane Schoolman and Michael Heim are going wild in the game of mushroom-extracts. Dual Extraction What???? Soxhlet Who???? They had me at Cordy-Crystals and Gnar-Tar, never-mind their in depth exploration of ultrasonically extracted myco-molecules suspended in cavitation bubbles. A few weeks after r…

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OM Mushrooms 1:57:40

1y ago1:57:40

1:57:40

The age old tale, or so it seems in these fast moving times seems to be Mycelium vs. Fruitbodies ... but what if you simple added both into your products, built out and followed through with scientific studies for publication and actually collected data after proceeding to test, test and test again. Steve and Sam of OM Mushrooms have been doing jus…

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Traveling Cap Mushroom Company 2:33:18

1y ago2:33:18

2:33:18

Round about two years ago the entire Cap N’ Stem crew hosted a massive bonfire at our newly acquired property in Lewiston. Many joined in the insanity, many bailed, motorcycles broke down, did burnouts or wrecked into dark Maine gullies, but the fire raged on and the partying continued through to the next morning! One of the most mysterious charact…

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Julian Mattucci (Imperial Scientific & Imperial Labs) 1:09:36

1y ago1:09:36

1:09:36

Julian Mattucci, also know as @dedikaryotizationdaddy is a dedicated researcher and a talented mycologist. He has been in the throws of some of the more nerdy but important breeding work in the wild word of mushrooms. I came across his Dedikaryotization Protocol via a shroomery post offered up by the one and only @alan_rockefeller a few months back…

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Columbia Mushroom In 2024 (Neil Brent) 1:52:56

1y ago1:52:56

1:52:56

Welcome back the mighty Neil Brent of Columbia Mushrooms! There are a million and one hilarious things that can be said about Neil, but this batshit hero to the cultivation crowd knows how to grow gourmet mushrooms like the best of them. What I appreciate most about Neil is his split dedication to the stoke and the stone cold assessments of any giv…

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Mighty Cap Mushrooms 2:21:38

1y ago2:21:38

2:21:38

Mike and I ripped up the coast of California towards the never-ending boarder-lands between the sandy dunes of the hot as hell desert and the perfectly temperate pacific blue until we came to the land of Mighty Cap Mushrooms in Paso Robles. Chris and Branden emerged from the first expansion of Mighty Cap, a super clean and well organized grow, to g…

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Hamilton Morris 1:09:26

1y ago1:09:26

1:09:26

Shortly before deciding to take the leap into commercial gourmet mushroom cultivation, I stumbled across a video of a young Hamilton Morris reporting on Magic Truffles in Amsterdam for Vice News. In this video Hamilton visits a farm that had to quickly pivot away from fruit body production and into sclerotia forming p. tampanensis cultivation somet…

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KM Mushrooms (Amanda Janney) 2:55:24

1+ y ago2:55:24

2:55:24

Some of our favorite mushroom cultivators are of old punk origins. You know the ones, strapped and packed with an array of patches, CDs, books and leftover dinner all in that high resting backpack rippin’ uphill on a fixed gear or in deteriorating ox-blood doc martens hopping rails and riding free atop the boxcars dead set on the western sunsets. T…

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Far West Fungi (Kyle Garrone) 1:54:39

1+ y ago1:54:39

1:54:39

Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com! Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Try to get Kyle Garrone to talk about anything but growing mushrooms and the emerging world of contemporary cultivators and it will ultimately snap back to mushr…

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Marc R Keith vs. Ferry County 2:10:38

1+ y ago2:10:38

2:10:38

Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com! Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! There were many things racing through my head when I first met Roger Rabbit, the OG king of Shroomery.org! But an almost decade long battle to get his stolen lan…

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Son and Skye 1:44:09

1+ y ago1:44:09

1:44:09

Eric Pearson of Son and Skye is a myco-farmers dead set on the details of cultivation. His interests exist within the systems, controllers and concepts for keeping rooms regulated and running in the intense heat and humidity of the Florida summers. While his farm is small and seemingly off grid in its appearance, the dials are finely tuned and hone…

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Roger Rabbit (Marc R Keith) At The OP Fungi Festival 1:48:54

1+ y ago1:48:54

1:48:54

Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com! Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! On two wheeled deathtraps through fall sun showers and ever changing scenery, RR and myself sped north from the base of the Olympic Peninsula under a solar eclip…

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Mushroom Maggie's Farm 2:08:35

1+ y ago2:08:35

2:08:35

Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com! Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! The first time I met Cyrus Lester of Mushroom Maggie's, I had no concept of the entire story behind such a genuine and bright human. All I knew after a couple of…

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MyCo Planet 1:29:21

1+ y ago1:29:21

1:29:21

Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com! Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! It's easy to start something, It's another thing to carry it forward through time and space as it grows and morphs and develops its own definition of limbs allow…

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Cactus Hat Mushrooms 2:03:53

1+ y ago2:03:53

2:03:53

Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com! Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! Joseph Iovino is a man sculpted from pure badassery! From fire fighting, to actual fighting to mushroom cultivation. The man was a myth before Daniel and myself …

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Fox Farm & Forage (Amy Fox) 2:19:36

1+ y ago2:19:36

2:19:36

Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com! Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! It was 2015 and in a flash I was kicked off Facebook, for reasons I suspect originated with my being on the terrorist-watch-list after starting numerous Food Not…

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Mushroom Revival (Alex Dorr) 1:54:45

1+ y ago1:54:45

1:54:45

Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com! Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! There were only a few folks who initially went head over heals cultivating cordyceps in the US back in the early 2000's and Alex Dorr of Mushroom Revival was one…

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Daniel Ashley (East Coast MycoWizards Tour Recap) 1:56:58

1+ y ago1:56:58

1:56:58

Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com! Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! It happened in a flash, we were out one master of the media and I knew I was not going to edit my own voice and videos for all the MycoWizard's out there! (no on…

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Mycopreneur (Dennis Walker) 1:31:32

1+ y ago1:31:32

1:31:32

Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com! Support the show and be automatically entered into our monthly giveaways exclusive to MycoWizards Members! This is our first go interviewing someone a bit outside of the cultivation sphere, but our guest today has a lot of experience conversating with cultivators and …

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