Today we're exploring the fascinating world of fungi, otherwise known as the wood wide web to those plant nerds who know what I'm talking about.

If not, you'll know in a few short minutes.

And how important mushrooms are to our ecosystems.

This is the third installment of our mushroom mini series that we did a couple of years ago.

And we're bringing it back for the best of growing joy series that we did a couple of years ago and we're bringing it back

for the best of Growing Joy series where we bring back some of our favorite episodes from the

archives to breathe fresh life into them because we have so much information that's free and

available to you and I want to make sure that you are set up for the most success for your

gardening and growing season

this year. So today, it's more of like a high level conversation about like, what are mushrooms?

How can they support your indoor and outdoor plants? And fun fungi facts that everybody needs to know.

We're joined by our friend Louie from North Spore Mushrooms. This is me and my husband,

Billy. So we interview Louie together, and it was a really fun mini-series, and I'm so happy to be

bringing it back to the podcast. So without further ado, let's nerd out about fungi together.

Welcome to the Gr Joy with Plants podcast, where we not only learn how to care for plants successfully, but how to simply and affordably use our plant babies to cultivate more

joy in our lives by doing so. I'm Maria, former plant killer turned happy plant lady, author of Growing Joy, The Plant

Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness, Speaker, Podcaster, and most importantly, your new

best plant friend.

On Growing Joy with Plants, you'll find conversations about house plant care, gardening

tutorials, and wellness through the lens of plants.

Plant care is self-care on growing joy.

Louis, welcome to growing joy.

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