Thriving Farmer Mushroom Summit
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Introduction
2:38
Welcome to the Mushroom Summit!
About Your Host - Michael Kilpatrick
57:02
Mushroom Summit Preview with Q&A
1:12:41
Mushroom Summit Day 1 Recap with Q&A
1:15:08
Mushroom Summit Day 2 Recap with Q&A
1:38:58
Mushroom Summit Day 3 Recap with Q&A
Day 1 - Why Mushrooms?
41:53
Tradd Cotter - Pushing the Boundaries: How mushrooms are healing us, housing us, and saving our planet
1:08:34
Ryan Bouchard & Emily Schmidt - Foraging for Mushrooms: Best practices to find wild treasure while staying safe
45:00
Merlin Sheldrake - Entangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds, and shape our futures
45:42
Tina Ellor - Lions Mane: A deep-dive into this healing and tasty fungi
45:15
Jess Starwood - Celebrating mushrooms: Foraging and creating foraged feasts with mushrooms
20:52
Shadi Ramey - Truffle Mushrooms: Magic, Folklore, and Gastronomy
32:51
Erik Lomen - Mycological Innovations for Small and Large Commercial Mushroom Farmers
41:40
Gary Hopkins - Button Mushroom Production: Production on a commercial scale
1:07:50
Steve Gabriel - Mushroom Research at Cornell Small Farm Program
47:30
Charles Barber - Medicinal Mushrooms: 5 mushrooms everyone should know
Day 2 - Getting Started With Mushrooms
32:55
Adam Sayner - What Is Low Tech Mushroom Farming: How to grow mushrooms without expensive or dangerous equipment!
32:58
Tim Hensley - The Mushroom Life: Tour of an outdoor mushroom farm
27:59
Tim Hensley - Secrets to Log-Raised Mushrooms: How to start raising mushrooms on logs the easy way
35:55
William Padilla-Brown - CordyQuest: history, cultivation and uses of cordycep mushrooms
29:24
John Holliday - Innovations in Commercial Mushroom Production
1:06:13
Logan Keister - An Introduction to Mycoforestry
50:48
Willie Crosby - Profitable Mushroom Production: Starting Your Mushroom Business
28:17
Roger & Mary Winstead - Bootstrapping a Hoophouse Grow: A Farmer's Friend Caterpillar to Grow Mushrooms
31:16
Jordan Jent - Mushroom Lab 101: How to work with your own cultures
18:21
Drew Zimmerman - Low Tunnel Mushroom Growing: Exploring outdoor cultivation of gourmet mushrooms.
2:08
Day 2 Bonus - Drew Zimmerman Tour of Mushroom Farm
15:30
Jeffrey Kleypas - Keep It Safe: Food safety and raising mushrooms
27:00
Justin Langley - Stoller Spawn Method: Doubling your nutrients for faster, more robust spawn runs
Day 3 - Building the Business and Selling Mushrooms
32:50
Eric Jong - Don't sell yourself short! Innovative ways to make more income on your mushroom farm without growing more mushrooms!
47:34
Alex Winstead - Operating a Commercial Organic Specialty Mushroom Farm
22:10
Dan Miller - Mushroom Money: Crowdfunding for mushroom farmers
27:28
Lori Rice - Oh So Tasty: Developing consumer-friendly mushroom recipes to promote your products
27:22
Lori Rice - Make Your Mushrooms Shine: Tips for photographing mushrooms
1:01:25
Jessica Martin - Social Media: Creating basic graphics on Canva to showcase your mushrooms!
47:06
Adam Cohen - Texas Fungus: From startup to full-time in less than 2 years
41:31
Erika Tebbens - Success with Farmers Markets