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Greetings mushroom entrepreneurs & enthusiasts,
This week’s Mycopreneur Incuabtor will be this Thursday, August 29th at 4 pm EST / 1 pm PST
The incuabator is a cost-free, low-key networking & mentorship opportunity for the global mushroom entreprneur community.
These events are currently free, but if anyone would like to offer a donation of $10 - $15 I'd be more than happy to receive it
Venmo: @mycopreneur
If you’d like to sponsor this week’s incubator or a future edition for $100, please reply to this email with your interest.
Here’s the login link:
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I’m on my way to Lisbon, Portugal right now - Check out Nãm Urban Mushroom Farm that’s headquartered there. They grow mushrooms on spent coffee grounds. Have any of you tried this before?
In Myco News this week, the MycoBim mushroom community in Barbados 🇧🇧 has launched thanks to founders Darren Le Baron and Errol McCollin.
From the MycoBim website:
“MycoBim is a startup dedicated to promoting the benefits of fungi and creating a myco-centric community in Barbados.
To achieve this, we have created a series of immersive training experiences to foster a deeper understanding and practical knowledge of the broad field of mycology.
Our business model is centred around gourmet and functional mushroom cultivation, processing, and the development of a variety of health and wellbeing mushroom products.”
Darren Le Baron is a longtime friend of the podcast - In fact, his first appearance on the podcast was episode #11 back in 2021
This week’s Mycopreneur Podcast featured Skye Chilton returning for another insightful & timely discourse about the state of the global mushroom industry -
Skye runs Real Mushrooms, one of the preeminent functional mushroom companies on the planet. His team just returned from their annual visit to China to visit their partners and mushroom farmers that they’ve been working with for several decades. It was particularly interesting to hear Skye talk about the numerous different medicinal mushrooms that are cultivated & productized in China - think Tremella (“Jelly Mushroom”) drinks (Skye was not a fan) , mushroom-infused face moisturizer, cultivated Golden Ear (“Witches Butter”) fungus, and at least a dozen other varietals that haven’t quite made it to our shores yet in any marketable sense.
Shifting continents, I had the privilege of interviewing Cullen Clark of South Africa this week. Cullen has been researching “The Lost Muti” - local indigenous parlance for the art of mushroom use among tribes in the region. He has analyzed hundreds of cave paintings and petrogylph rock art across South Africa and Lesotho which prominently feature mycocentric themes and heavily suggest that mushroom rituals and use were an integral part of the spiritual and material lives of the indigenous groups in the area.
In the process of his research, Cullen contributed to the academic documentation of 2 new-to-science Psilocybe species in South Africa.
Shown below is Psilocybe maluti, and the next one down is Psilocybe ingeli
Looks like it’s time for me to board my flight - I’ve been compiling this newsletter from the Polaris Lounge at Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C. -
Thanks for reading the Mycopreneur Incubator Newsletter.
See you this Thursday for the Incubator!
Dennis