Building Soil, Food & Self-Sufficiency with Mushrooms – Epi-3787

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Society & Culture, Philosophy

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🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 162 minutes

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Andrew Reed joins us today to discuss building soil, food, and self-sufficiency with low tech mushroom cultivation. Andrew is a fungal geneticist, educator, and founder of Mossy Creek Mushrooms in East Tennessee, where he runs one of the most diverse independent culture libraries in North America. His work centers on practical, scalable mycology—using mushrooms to build soil, strengthen food systems, reduce waste streams, and empower small growers with simple, repeatable methods that actually work in the real world. A lifelong naturalist with a background in microbiology and ecological systems, Andrew specializes in strain development and selective breeding of gourmet and … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	There's a better way to do this.
0:05.0	Let me show you a better way.
0:12.0	You don't have to be.
0:17.0	And we are live.
0:19.0	Welcome, folks, episode 37 3787 of the survival podcast.
0:24.5	And we're going to talk about something.
0:25.6	We talked about a lot last year, but haven't talked about for a while.
0:29.6	And that is the magic of mushrooms.
0:31.9	I didn't specifically say magic mushrooms.
0:34.2	That might come up today.
0:35.1	I doubt it.
0:35.7	They were really talking about mushrooms in the words of our guests today uh in the form of building soil growing food and creating
0:46.2	self-sufficiency and i think that's one of the things that's really attracted me to mushrooms
0:50.7	over the years additionally i freaking like to eat them a lot, a great
0:56.6	deal. They're one of my favorite things in the world. So we're going to be talking about that
1:00.8	today and from a bunch of different angles, including some we really haven't covered before. And I think
1:08.0	that if you were with me through the last year, we've kind of made a really
1:13.4	good case for how anybody can do this, including very small scale and very small environments,
1:20.0	including a lot of places where producing much of your own food is not easy, like you
1:25.7	apartment dwellers.
1:27.3	If you're an apartment
1:28.1	dweller you want self-sufficiency and you eat mushrooms or you use them
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