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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Growing Epic Mushrooms with Louis Giller | The Beet

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Beet Podcast, Jacques dives into a fascinating conversation with Louis Giller from North Spore, the go-to source for grow-your-own mushroom kits. Get ready for a delightful exploration of all things fungi as Louis shares invaluable tips for growing mushrooms at home and takes us behind the scenes of North Spore’s journey. Whether you’re a mycophile or just curious about mushrooms, this episode is for you.

Mushroom Supplies Now Available At Epic Gardening: https://shop.epicgardening.com/collections/mushroom-collection
Learn More:  13 Best Mushrooms You Can Grow At Home

Connect with Louis Giller:

Louis heads up mushroom education, works in customer service, and coordinates many North Spore events. He has spent over 10 years growing and hunting mushrooms from coast to coast and loves getting into the woods to hike or mountain bike and look for highly prized wild foods. When the mushrooms aren’t in season, Louis enjoys a day of snowboarding followed by a little whiskey and a good book.

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1:15.2

Visiting with North Spoor and actually have Louis here from North Spoor and we really are going to dive into the whole world of

1:21.8

Muschrooms gardening with mushrooms, all sorts of fun bonus facts about mushrooms because this guy knows a lot about it.

1:28.0

So first, welcome Louis, or I guess I'm welcoming myself to your place.

1:33.0

But tell me a little bit about North Sport,

1:35.0

because you guys have such a cool facility

1:37.0

and your kind of starting point in history with them is super fascinating.

1:41.0

Thanks, Jacques.

1:42.0

Happy to be here.

1:44.0

It's really crazy that it's been like seven years at this point.

1:49.4

North Sports started a couple of years before that by Matt Aliah and John. They all met at College of the Atlantic and when they started growing mushrooms they did it in a very very simple low-tech way in a garage in Westbrook.

2:03.7

Like really low-tech growing out of buckets.

2:08.3

They didn't have temperature controls.

2:10.0

They were dealing with ice messing with the business in the winter I mean it was

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