The Real Shroom Boom
Mushroom Season is Popping Off
Welcome to The Spore Drop, a weekly roundup of mushroom news from around the world.
Mushroom season came early for us this year; relentless rains in Southern California all the way down through Southern Mexico have yielded an early boom of wild mushrooms throughout the coniferous forests and desert landscapes animated with wildflower super blooms.
This is the main ‘Shroom Boom’ worth paying attention to; while people in the Twitterverse are up in arms about the $3500 psilocybin mushroom sessions recently rolled out in Oregon, mycopreneurs around the world are foraging and cultivating mushrooms at unprecedented rates while connecting to a robust social and environmental ecosystem that’s both dignifying and grounding to be a part of. Once you’ve tapped into this massive network, the notion of paying a stranger large sums of money to access psilocybin mushrooms in a sterile clinical setting becomes…one of many options available to you.
I’ve just wrapped up a whirlwind trip across Asia for 3 months, and barely touched down at my place for 72 hours before booking flights out to LA for this weekend’s 2nd California Psychedelic Conference presented by Oakland Hyphae. I’m moderating a panel called ‘Fungi Whispers: Insights From Mycologists’ featuring some of the most reputable mushroom cultivators and mycopreneurs in the world including Michael Crowe of Southwest Mushrooms, Bear of She Grows Fungi, and David Poplin of Humboldt Mycology.
Two weeks later, I’ll be pulling up to Denver for the largest ticketed psychedelic event in history, Psychedelic Science by MAPS.
I’m very honored to be speaking on a panel called ‘Satire Is Sacred’ at Psychedelic Science alongside Adam Aronovich, the wizard behind the immensely thoughtful ‘Healing From Healing’ account on Instagram.
Today also marks the launch of the Global Psychedelic Society, which today’s Mycopreneur Podcast episode unpacks with Co-Founders Mike Margolies and Jaz Cadoch. You can listen here. I’m thrilled to join GPS as a community partner and to support their critical work connecting psychedelic society leadership from chapters around the world and supporting the constellation of people joining individual chapters in places as far afield as San Francisco, London, and Sydney among many others.
I’d like to thank Mycopreneur Podcast sponsor Mycroboost and personally vouch for their mushroom coffee and soft gel capsules. I have a variety of their products on deck with me at all times, including throughout three months traveling across Asia. Regularly consuming Mycroboost mushroom supplements has invaluably contributed to my ability to keep up with the demands of frequent travel and running a bootstrapped independent business.
And above all, I’d like to thank mushrooms themselves for powering the Mycopreneur Podcast. It’s been a wild run 15+ years in the making, and every step of the way along this journey has been guided by my fascination with and devotion to Fungi. It’s an honor to be of service to the Funga of the world, and to the growing network of humans building a more sensible, regenerative, and meaningful future alongside our fungi friends.
Thank you for rocking with me and please let me know what you’d like to see covered in future editions of The Spore Drop newsletter.