Tony Shields on The Art of Growing Mushrooms

A practical conversation with Tony Shields, CEO of Freshcap Mushrooms on the health benefits of mushrooms and how to grow your own at home.

 

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Bio: 

 

• Tony’s origin story
• Best type of Mushrooms to start growing
• Mushrooms and Gut Health
• Mushrooms and Brain health
• Turkey Tail
• Lions Main
• Chaga Mushrooms
• Cordyceps
• Fresh Mushrooms vs Dried vs Extracts
• Cordyceps pre-workout hack
• Mushrooms and Immunity
• Tero Isokauppila Book- Founder of Four Sigmatic
• Fungi, Yeast and the Gut
• Mycorrhizal Fungi
• Mushrooms and CO2
• Mycelial Networks
• Mushroom Growing Kits
• How to Make a Mushroom Fruiting Block?
• What is Grain Spawn?
• How to Make Grain Spawn?
• What is Mycelium (Culture)?
• Culture vs Spore?
• Video Demonstration available on Youtube
• How to Grow Oyster Mushrooms?
• What is a mushroom plug?
• Starting with Grain Spawn
• Adding to grain spawn to substrate
• Hardwood Substrate
• Sterilising Substrate
• Making a mushroom garden bed
• Growing Mushrooms in a Bucket ( Bucket TEK)
• Soaking and Pasteurising Hardwood
• Freshcap Youtube Videos

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkzY4M9kg2VmqJ2nNcNM8hw

• Growing from Spores
• How long does colonisation take?
• When is colonisation complete?
• Paul Stamets Books- Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
• How to Fruit Mushrooms?
• Shot Gun Fruiting Chamber
• Mushrooms and Light
• Humidity and Fresh Air
• Mushrooms and CO2
• The frequency of light for fruiting
• How long does it take to fruit mushrooms?
• When do you harvest mushrooms?
• How to maintain humidity?
• Using a hydrometer
• Sonic Disk Humidifier
• What is cloning?
• How to make a copy of mushroom on agar?
• Cloning of foods
• Limitation of Mushrooms Cloning
• How to Make Agar?
• Sterilising Agar in a Pressure Cooker
• Tony’s top health tip
• Future Prospective for Psilocybin Mushrooms and Mental Health
• Gut Brain Connection and Diet
• Interview with Professor Ted Dinan 

https://podcast.nourishmeorganics.com.au/professor-ted-dinan-on-the-psychobiotic-revolution-mood-food-and-the-new-science-of-the-gut-brain-connection 

 

 

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