Cedar Falls Mycology Podcast

Cedar Falls Mycology Podcast

Explore the fascinating world or mycology through lectures, book reviews and interviews hosted by mycologist Tim Leavitt from the Cedar Falls Treehouse. The Treehouse is an educational mycology immersion facility located in North Bend Washington. Reoccuring themes of these episodes will be, mushrooms, mycozooism, ethnomycology, theorhetical mycology, medicinal mycology and mycoremediation. Audience participation is strongly encouraged. You can contact us by email cedarfallsmycology@gmail.com or come visit us for a spectacular mushroom diner by booking the Cedar Falls Treehouse through airbnb.

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June 11, 2025 65 mins

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. , eve...

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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 f...

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Greetings everyone. This is Tim Leavitt from Cedar Falls Mycology, Welcome to 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  Jack Cyan here via zoom joimig us from Oregon.   Jack Cyan is really kind of the quintessential Johnny Appleseed character of the pschedlelic mushroom world atleast around the PNW.  Jack runs the wood lovers united FB, ...

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All right, good people. Welcome to episode eight.   Today we’re gonna talk about the book, Mushroom Magik, thats Magik with a ‘k” written by Shawn Engel.  We have Shawn  here on the show and we are going to ask her some questions...

 

But first I’d like to start by telling everyone the book we are discussing is called “ Mushroom Magik” this name does not refer  to medicinal mushrooms in a t...

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Welcome to the  podcast where we ask ourselves not what the fungi can do for us but what we can do  for the fungi. I am super excited to have Daniel Silberstein joining us for this episode.  Danny is one of the founders of Developments in Mycelium Applications otherwise known as DMA. DMA is a virtual course covering the vast potential of fungi-based solutions and entrepreneurship from experts in the Mycelia  realm.   ...

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Greetings everyone. This is Tim Leavitt  from Cedar Falls Mycology,   I am super excited to have Caine Barlow joining us for this episode.  Caine Barlow is an Australian mycologist.   He is a fungi educator, an ethnobotanist, an independent researcher, and a Science Writer based in Melbourne.   He regularly gives  lectures on mycology as well as fungi conservation, and  he teaches gourmet mushroom cultivation. You can...

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In this episode, I’m going to do a quick book review on Eugenia’s newest book.  "Have a Good Trip" and then we're going to discuss the fascinating topic of  tripping on psychedelic mushrooms. 

Some of you may know Eugenia as one of the stars in the movie Fantastic Fungi.  She is also responsible for creating the Fantastic Fungi Cookbook that goes along with the movie.   She also wrote the book Mycophilia...

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 In this episode, I'm going to give a mycological introduction to truffles. Then we'll get into some questions with Dawn about truffle hunting, truffle cooking, and then we'll get into some theoretical mycology questions.

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In this episode, we're going to discuss the fascinating topic of  psychedelic therapy.

 

We will start with some of the questions we can answer...like the legal status of psychedelic therapy... and then we are going ask a few questions that can not be answered.  As was mentioned in the intro to episode 1,  one of the recurring themes on this show is theoretical mycology  by that we mean myc...

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Listeners are introduced to the historical mycozooistic relationship that exists between humans and magic mushrooms.

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This first episode introduces listeners to the recurring themes on our show, theoretical mycology, mushrooms and mycozooism.  

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