Homegrown Mushrooms with Louis Giller | The Beet

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Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Episode Description: In this episode of the Beet Podcast, Jacques chats with Louis Giller, a longtime friend of the pod and representative of North Spore, a Maine-based mushroom company. They dig into how you can grow mushrooms at home, from your kitchen counter to a bucket or in your garden beds. They even cover the benefits that mushrooms bring to your soil. Check out the North Spore Mushroom Collection in the Epic Gardening Shop here: https://shop.epicgardening.com/collections/north-spore-mushroom-collection Connect with Louis Giller: Louis runs education, works in customer service, and coordinates events for home mushroom cultivation company North Spore. He has over 10 years of experience growing and hunting mushrooms from coast to coast. When the mushrooms aren’t in season, Louis enjoys a day of snowboarding, followed by a little whiskey and a good book. Find more from North Spore on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/northsporemushrooms/ Find more from North Spore on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9I4ZR_qouQfZpaD61JpT6g/featured Support The Beet: → Shop: https://growepic.co/shop → Seeds: https://growepic.co/botanicalinterests Learn More: → All Our Channels: https://growepic.co/youtube → Blog: https://growepic.co/blog → Podcast: https://growepic.co/podcasts → Discord: https://growepic.co/discord → Instagram: https://growepic.co/insta → TikTok: https://growepic.co/tiktok → Pinterest: https://growepic.co/pinterest → Twitter: https://growepic.co/twitter → Facebook: https://growepic.co/facebook → Facebook Group: https://growepic.co/fbgroup → Love our products? Become an Epic affiliate! https://growepic.co/3FjQXqV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I get this question actually pretty often.
0:02.0	Hey, I saw this mushroom growing out of my raised bed.
0:05.0	Like, what should I do?
0:06.0	People would freak out about that.
0:08.0	And they would even think about putting a bunch of fungicide on their yard.
0:15.0	And I would say, whatever you do, don't do that.
0:19.0	That's terrible.
0:20.0	But it typically means things are healthy.
0:22.3	So not something.
0:24.7	But if you did stamp on the mushroom, you're not getting rid of it anyway.
0:29.0	Yeah.
0:29.2	Because that mycelium's there.
0:30.8	Yeah.
0:36.3	Welcome back to The Beat. I am your host today, Jacques Lykov from Jacques in the Garden.
0:40.4	And today we have a guest who's been on before. Last time I actually went and visited you up in
0:44.8	Maine and it's Louis from Nord Spore. So thanks for coming down in San Diego this time. A little different,
0:50.1	but we're having a good time and we're growing mushrooms and talking about mushrooms today.
0:54.6	Yeah, Jacques, it's really amazing that the epic gardening team invited North Spordown and I was able to
1:00.9	represent us. We had so much fun out in Maine. And the growing has continued. You guys keep doing
1:10.2	amazing things and growing lots of veggies and mushrooms
1:12.9	and i want to uh keep spreading the spore yeah nice yeah in this case i have been expanding my
1:21.1	mushroom growing for sure i've done down a lot more indoor growing more outdoor growing and today
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