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April 21, 2025The Magic Kingdom of Specialty Mushrooms
Michael Olson’s Food Chain Radio Show #1392
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Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – The Magic Kingdom of Specialty Mushrooms
Guest: Ian Garrone CEO & Founder Far West Fungi, Moss Landing, CA
There is a mushroom festival in the works in the woods above our small coastal community of Santa Cruz. I suspect a lot of people will be attending from the nearby San Francisco metroplex to enjoy a taste of the magic that is mushrooms.
When the organizer of this festival told me that the largest known living organism on earth is a mushroom, or more appropriately a fungus, I knew there was a lot to this living organism that was simply not very well known, and wondered – Why do we know so little, about the magic kingdom of mushrooms?
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