Mushrooms for Human & Soil Health – Epi-3675

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Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Today we discuss using mushrooms to heal our damaged soils and our damaged bodies with Sean Hawkins. Shawn and his wife will talk about their journey and the role mushrooms have played in it. Sean Hawkins is a certified “Soil-Smith” and educator of JADAM & Korean Natural Farming practices. He has 15 years experience in greenhouse management; growing a variety of indoor crops, microgreens, and flowers. Jen Hawkins spent 8 years working for one of the largest pharmaceutical compounding companies in the world. In 2020, during the authoritarian over-reaction to Covid, Sean used his agricultural experience and community resources to … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	Well, hi, let me show you a better way to do this.
0:08.0	Well, hi, folks.
0:22.8	Welcome to another edition of the Survival podcast, and we are live with episode 3675 today.
0:29.0	It is Wednesday.
0:29.7	That means, as usual, for a Wednesday.
0:31.9	We have an interview lined up.
0:34.0	We have Sean and Jen Hawkins.
0:36.0	We'll be on with us in just a bit.
0:38.5	We're going to be talking about mushrooms. Now, we just talked about mushrooms with Olga for Mushroom Mountain, and I'm trying
0:44.4	to do more on that, so I don't think this is actually related to their app coming, and it just
0:48.6	worked out that way, which is serendipitous. We're going to be talking about using mushrooms today
0:53.2	to heal the health of soil and to heal the health of humans.
0:57.2	And we'll start with that as soon as we bring them on. Before that real quick, let us go ahead and take a moment to thank our sponsors of the day.
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1:24.0	awesome choices for handle material as well. They also have everything you need to make sheets, whether they're leather or kidex or
1:30.9	holsters, whether they're leather or kidex.
1:33.5	And they're just a really cool company.
1:34.9	It's been around for a very long time, longer than us, but they've been with us for almost
1:39.0	as long as we've been here.
1:40.4	They're one of the first sponsors we ever signed. And here we are 17 years down the road and
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