Mushrooms for Self Reliance – Epi-3684

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🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Today we’re diving into one of the most overlooked but powerful tools in the self-reliance toolbox: growing mushrooms at home. Not some niche hobby, not some weird hippie project, but a legitimate food production system you can run in your kitchen, spare room, or even a closet. Fast results, scalable, cheap to start, and packed with benefits most people never even think about. We’re talking about a complete protein that grows on trash, in small spaces, with little more than humidity, light, and time. Mushrooms like oyster and lion’s mane can replace grocery store purchases and even mimic the flavors … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	And we're a better way to do this.
0:08.8	Let me show you a better way.
0:15.6	And we are live.
0:21.1	Welcome, folks, to episode 3,684 of the Survival Podcast.
0:26.5	It's a Monday.
0:27.8	That means it's just me.
0:29.0	You get a just Jack show today.
0:31.4	And today we're going to talk about mushrooms.
0:33.6	Now, I recently had a couple people on as part of a mushroom series.
0:38.3	I had a couple on that has a small mushroom business focused mainly on the health aspects of mushrooms.
0:45.3	And of course, I had Olga on from Mushroom Mountain, and we talked more about the cultivation of mushrooms for improving garden soils. We're going to also have Olga coming back on fairly soon to talk about mushrooms for health as well.
0:59.8	And I've got one of the folks over at North Spore that will feature pretty prominently today as well
1:05.6	with some options that there are for you to cultivate mushrooms in your own home.
1:10.4	I've got somebody coming on from them to talk about specifically the cultivation of mushrooms
1:14.9	using the type of pools that they have, like monotubbs and what they call a boom room, which is
1:19.7	kind of a take it all the way to the edge thing known in the mushroom world as a Martha
1:24.4	tent, named after Martha Stewart, got a DIY, do it at home,
1:28.3	grow your own food type of thing.
1:30.3	And I'll let you know right up front.
1:32.3	I will be doing a lot more with mushrooms, including videos for you.
1:36.3	The folks over at North Sport, I reached out to them in a variety of ways, and they actually
1:41.3	have a fairly large team.
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