Flora Funga Podcast
Let's get down N nerdy with plants and fungi on Flora Funga Podcast. I'm all about bridging the gap between plants, fungi, and humans. Come listen to the underrated nerdy topics of flora and funga. Everything's connected above and below ground. Feel free to contact me at www.florafungapodcast.com/contact
Episodes
211 episodes
209: Your Beer has Glyophate with Brandon Rust
Brandon Rust has been cultivating and breeding cannabis for 20+ years, originally from San Diego, he currently resides in Oklahoma and works in the legal cannabis industry, as an owner operator and as a private consultant. A self-taught agronom...
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Season 4
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Episode 209
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208: Using AI to Talk to Plants-- IN PERSON INTERVIEW
Today we break down a Juicy News article on Revolutionary AI Model Deciphers Language of Plants for the First Time with Kevin an AI E...
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Episode 208
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207: Street Interview: Meet a TOP Interdimensional Visionary: Chris Dyer
During the Cannadelic Night Market here in St. Petersburg, FL we interviewed a TOP interdimensional Visionary Chris Dyer. He is up there with Alex Grey!!Chris is a Peruvian-Canadian artist, sharing his personal medicine as honest express...
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206: The Kratom Industry Is Getting Sketchy--Start a Mushroom Cafe
A VIBRANT BLEND OF NATURE AND FLAVOR FILLS EVERY CORNER OF LOS HONGOS CAFE AND PLANT BAR IN PORTLAND, OR, WHERE COMMUNITY AND CREATIVITY THRIVE TOGETHER.Los Hongos proudly operates as a locally-owned and operated business, focused on buildi...
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Episode 206
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205: How to Grow your Own Medicine
Twin Mycology's mission is to help over 800,000 adults, foster mental health and sustainable living using the incredible power of mushrooms--Through their offerings of peer coaching, educational programs, and valuable resources.All resou...
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Episode 205
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204: 2025 Nomination Announcement
Thank you to all the people that filled out this years Nomination form. Congrats to all the nominees:Find all people and resources on florafungapodcast.com/204
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Episode 204
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203: New Study Shows Mushrooms Could Help Reduce Dementia in Dogs
Carter Easler is a clinical researcher and educator specializing in functional mushrooms and longevity in companion animals. As Principal Investigator of the Senior Dog Study, he explores how natural compounds can support cognitive health...
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Episode 203
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202: Juicy News| Forever Chemicals are now Safe to Spray on Crops
New Study states that PFAS or Forever chemicals are now safe to spray on crops.FACT CHECK: EPA Debunks False Claims ...
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Episode 202
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201: Trapping Nematodes & Culture
Niah is an aspiring mycologist with a strong background in fungal research and hands-on experience in cultivation and foraging. She works with Bigfoot Mushrooms, helping to grow and sell a variety of gourmet cultivated species, while also maint...
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Episode 201
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200: Top 10 Moments of 2025 Flora Funga WRAPPED
In 2025, Flora Funga Podcast didn’t just grow—it spread: according to my Spotify for Podcasters + YouTube Studio stats, 26 people had Flora Funga as their #1 show, 310 had it in their Top 10, and...
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Episode 200
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199: Diet Soda’s Hidden Tradeoff? What a 1-Year Aspartame Study Found| Juicy News
“Zero sugar” doesn’t always mean zero impact. 👀🥤 This week on Flora Funga, I break down a 1-year aspartame study in mice that found something wild: the mice got leaner (less body fat)… but researchers also saw signs of ...
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198: Street Interview--What YOU Mean I'm not a REAL Mycologist!?
Shout out to our friend Cyrus who created this art installation @fungi_lightingAll resources available on florafungapodcast.com/198
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Season 3
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Episode 198
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197: 2025 Nominations-- VOTE NOW!
Take a few minutes to fill out 2025 NOMINATIONS!@the_flying_fungiAlso if you are interested in trying to
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Season 3
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Episode 197
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196: Fun Fungi Fact with Jasper Fungi Academy at TMF
I interviewed Jasper from Fungi Academy at this years Telluride Mushroom Festival!All resources are on florafungapodcast.com/196
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Season 3
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Episode 196
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195: America's BIGGEST Fungi Magazine with Britt Bunyard
We chat with Britt Bunyard the Co-director of Telluride Mushroom Festival, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Fungi Magazine. He has studied the interactions and co-evolution of higher fungi (primarily mushroom fungi) with insects (primarily true...
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194: Why the Midwest is Superior with Melissa Ketelsen| Ohio Mushroom Festival
We are at Ohio Mushroom Festival with @ChicoryChickadee we talk about the Midwest and some invasive species that need to be...
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Season 3
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Episode 194
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193: The Mushroom Finds You: Ceremony, Healing, and Creative Power with Edward Crowe
Edward Crowe joins KK to explore his deeply personal relationship with psychedelic mushrooms—spanning visionary experiences, ceremonial practices, and the role fungi play in his creative and healing journey. Edward shares vivid stories from his...
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Season 3
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Episode 193
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192: MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE with Luna Stower
Luna Stower is an award-winning educator, activist, and thought leader at the intersection of cannabis, psychedelics, and culture. With a Master’s in Teaching and over 15 years shaping the legal cannabis market, she is known for helping decrimi...
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Season 3
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Episode 192
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191: New Fungus Lowers Inflammation AND Cancer Cells
New research from Taiwan revealing a rare forest fungus with remarkable anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties. Discovered growing on the endangered stout camphor tree, this cultivated mushroom produces a compound called N50 F2, a ...
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190: MEET THE PLUG: Nourish Cap
Benjamin Ashpole is founder of NourishCap.com, the first marketing agency in the United States to focus exclusively on the unique needs of the mushroom sector. He also runs PromoterMotor, a marketing agency that has served the nonprofit sector ...
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189: MEET THE PLUG-Shatter the Stigma 5k-Run
Giovanni, founder of the Shatter Foundation and organizer of the Shatter the Stigma 5K, shared his mission to raise awareness and funds for psychedelic-assisted therapy for veterans and first responders. His foundation, nonprofit, partners with...
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Season 4
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Episode 189
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188: Inperson| How to Nurture a Scientist ft my Mom--Finn River Cidery
Enjoy this Birthday In PERSON interview with my mom, Beth Moravek. Finally checking this interview off my list and Finn River Cidery is a MUST visit! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAMAB! HAPPY HALLOWEEN YALL! GET YO SPOOK ON
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Episode 188
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187: New Anti-Cancer & Memory Boosting Boba Tea Fungus!
Enjoy this science filled episode where we get down N nerdy Tremella:Cognition/memory clinical trialshttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37836504/
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Season 4
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Episode 187
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