Space Shrooms 🪐🚀

Howdy Mycopreneurs, welcome to another Mycopreneur Newsletter - the central hub for real time developments in the global mushroom startup space.

Here’s where I’m writing today’s newsletter from at 5:30 am.

We’re at an off-grid, riverfront spot in Costa Rica surrounded by hot springs and toucans. Starlink internet and solar power are changing the game for remote living and working.

Mycofunctional Superfoods

This week’s edition of the newsletter is sponsored by Wade Fox of Fox Among Bears - a wizard of myco superfoods and koji fermentation who has an active Lion’s Mane Molasses collaboration with Nick Prieto of Red Flower Fungi. Wade and Nick have each participated in numerous Mycopreneur Incubators and also joined forces on an impressive cross-country tour last year to produce high end mushroom culinary events in various cities throughout the U.S.

Show Wade some love for supporting the Mycopreneur Newsletter by clicking on the link below to check out what he’s cooking up for his Patreon community:

And check out the myco kitchen wizardry Wade is up to on Instagram at @foxamongbears

I’m salivating for some of this Lion’s Mane Molasses that he’s teamed up with Red Flower Fungi to produce under the product name “Leoncito Cafecito Mycofunctional Molasses”

Wade will be sharing insights about his journey in the mushroom superfoods space creating magic with mycofunctional foods today at the Mycopreneur Incubator.

Open Fung Myco Buoys

Mushroom tech and arts accelerator Open Fung is deploying mycelium buoys in the Sausalito houseboat community area just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. Fungal composite materials researcher Hannah Nguyen originally undertook this research as part of a project during her studies at UC Berkeley in 2016, and the project is still floating through the mycosphere today with this Open Fung collaboration.

One of the stated goals for sharing this work with the fungal buoys is to “help others working with fungi and water”

From the abstract for Hannah’s original research paper on this topic:

Mycelium, the filamentous vegetative structure of a fungus, possesses dynamic capabilities that inspire biotechnologies encompassing the goal of sustainability by means of material efficiency. The demand for replacing excessively wasteful, energy-intensive building materials is gaining urgency, and mycelium composites present great potential for supplanting current material regimes. However, present information on how the material withstands weathering is limited. This experiment and subsequent analysis was conducted in the hopes of furthering application possibilities for mycelium objects and to better understand the degradation process of these composites.

Check out Hannah’s full essay on Myco Buoys on the Open Fung website here:

Space Shrooms 🪐🚀

The Perfect Space Crop: Growing Mushrooms In Space 

An Australian company is going to attempt to grow oyster mushrooms in space while onboard an upcoming SpaceX flight. I actually tried to buy the domain name ‘Astromycology.com’ a few years ago and someone had snapped it up already.

The intersection of space exploration and fungi is looking like a major frontier for numerous reasons: NASA has invested in growing ‘moon bases’ out of mushrooms, fungi have been found growing unassisted by humans on the Russian space station ‘Mir’ in the 90’s, and Paul Stamets has been amplifying the ‘mushrooms in space’ narrative for some years now - he was even the inspiration for a character eponymously named Paul Stamets on the Star Trek: Discovery television series who discovered the mycelial network and the spore drive, a new propulsion system in the show universe.

With all this talk of mushrooms in outer space and coverage by The Guardian, Star Trek, TedX, etc… , maybe it’s time for some of these bigger platforms to start covering the role of mushrooms in exploring and developing inner space?

Have Mushrooms Will Travel

My latest article for the iconic Head Magazine was published yesterday. The article explores my penchant for bring functional mushroom products with me every time I travel - which is…often. From the article:

Last year I traveled by boat, mototaxi, plane and train from an island off the coast of Borneo to a keynote speaking engagement at the University of Exeter in Devonshire, England, then to Bangkok via Dubai and Kuala Lumpur. That all happened in the span of one week. 

So how does one stay in the good graces of health and vitality when faced with the prospects of long-haul flights, unfamiliar environmental pressures, foreign foods and questionable public water infrastructure?

Functional Mushrooms. A lot of them. Tinctures, capsules, chocolates, coffee, tea, and everything in between, infused with potent legal medicinal mushroom extracts.

Full article below -

Mycoday Mushroom Chocolate

Did you know I founded a mushroom chocolate company?

I've got a bunch of Mycoday functional mushroom chocolate on me right now while in Costa Rica for the month - it’s truly an exceptional product that satisfies both the high end artisanal chocolate lover’s criteria and the functional myco superfoods criteria - chocolatye so healthy you can, and should eat it for breakfast.

Mycoday has been recognized by numerous international press outlets as being a standout ‘future foods’ product - Giliunia Furci, the chocolate-loving ‘Queen of Fungi’ and foundress of the internationally renowned Fungi Foundation even went out of her way to rave about Mycoday online after I gave her a bar at Telluride Mushroom Festival a few years ago.

Here’s a blurb on Mycoday from yesterday’s Head Magazine article:

Order here: https://www.mycoday.com/

Mycopreneur Incubator (Today)

The Mycopreneur Incubator is our weekly low-key cost-free netowrking and business mentorship hub for mushroom entrepreneurs, researchers, enthusiasts, and anyone with a curiosity and passion for the rapidly evolving myco space.

We’ve had the founders of numerous major mushroom companies with global operations attend the incubator and share intel, executives from publicly traded companies in the mycosphere, a mushroom entrepreneur featured on Shark Tank, journalists from mainstream publications, lawyers, and everyday working mycopreneurs show up to the incubator and spin out real world partnerships and collaborations from connections made in the Incubator. Please join us.

Time: Mar 27, 2025 5 pm East Coast / 2 pm West Coast U.S.

Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84984443429?pwd=ayqzklpfo7JwgkpZOkofd0FSfTMZQY.1

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I’ve benefitted incredibly from their Amanita products personally, especially in regards to illuminating the dreamscape while getting deep rest in the evenings. There’s a ton of info and educational resources available on the website, so do check those out if you’re new to Amanita muscaria or just want to learn more about it.

Thanks for reading this week’s edition of the Mycopreneur Newsletter - time to hit the hot springs ( :

See you at the Incubator today - tell your friends!

DW