How and where and why do mushrooms grow?
We sat down with Olga Tzogas, founder of Smugtown Mushrooms, to learn more.
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Olga Tzogas’s journey with Fungi and plants started over ten years ago. In 2011, Smugtown Mushrooms was started, which provides, cultivation supplies to grow mushrooms, indoors or outdoors, for food or for medicine. We also host workshops, organize events and bring community together for social + environmental justice. Olga continuously is eager to learn more and embrace the never-ending, unlocked potential of mushrooms, fungi and the natural world. Olga teaches workshops throughout the continent about wild mushroom identification, medicinal mushrooms, biology, and mushroom cultivation. She was a core organizer for the 2016 Radical Mycology Convergence and the MycoSymbiotics Festival from 2015-17. Olga, alongside the collaboration of the collective, The Mycelium Underground, helped develop the New Moon Mycology Summit in 2018. Annually, Olga guides small groups immersing in the land based and traditional knowledge of Northern Greece. These visits opens one to see how precious Greece is ecologically and culturally. We focus deeply on the fungi and plants present and ways locals use and have had used them in times of antiquity.
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Episode recorded, mixed and produced by Kate Douglas
Theme song is by Matthew Dean Marsh