Mycologos

11/09/2022

Big news for Mycologos! Today we announce the start of version 2.0 of our mycology school and certified organic fungi farm – beginning with introducing our new logo, look, and feel.

Learn how to get involved here: https://linktr.ee/mycologos

12/03/2020

Peter McCoy was recently interviewed on the In Search of Soil podcast with Diego Footer discussing the many nuances of soil fungi and their critical roles in the sustainment of life on land! Watch the video interview on Youtube, or listen on the go via Spotify, links below.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0w6bJ2voBXdtPm4Y7r3p6p
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2bGGbHkrFM

Subscribe and Listen to the audio version of In Search of Soil: iTunes - http://bit.ly/soilpodcast Spotify - http://bit.ly/insearchofsoil In this episode of ...

07/15/2020

Join MYCOLOGOS founder Peter McCoy tomorrow on the California Academy of Sciences NightSchool event: Fungus Among Us. This event is free to watch on YouTube and will run from 7–8pm PST. See you there!

One of our most popular NightLife events gets the NightSchool treatment with short virtual lessons on the many facets of fungi. Our lineup: Maya Elson on fun...

06/18/2020

Peter McCoy was recently interviewed for the The Ecoiq Project with Aharon Henderson. Topics covered include the depths and breadth of fungal ecology, as well as Peter's background and personal motivations for starting MYCOLOGOS and furthering the human-fungal relation.

‎Show The EcoIQ Project, Ep 1.24 How To Transform Your Life Through Fungi, With Peter McCoy - Jun 12, 2020

05/22/2020

Peter McCoy spent some time talking mushrooms with a group of bright kids on the The Children's Hour this week.

On this episode of The Children’s Hour we explore mushrooms with mycology educator and author, Peter McCoy. We’ll learn about how the fruits of fungi are the smallest parts of these incredible organisms, which can be found everywhere in nature from the tops

02/13/2020

Peter McCoy was featured on the Permaculture for the Future podcast, discussing the many roles of fungi in the environment and their potential for improving human designs. Topics include fungal evolution, mycorrhizal fungi, utilizing fungal inoculants, and mycoremediation.

About Peter McCoy Peter McCoy has been studying and working with fungi for twenty years, and teaching mushroom cultivation and applied mycology to people around the world for over a decade. His book, Radical Mycology: A Treatise on Seeing and Working With Fungi has been praised as the most important...

12/13/2019

PLEASE APPLY HERE IF INTERESTED: https://mycologos.world/pages/administrative-assistant

MYCOLOGOS is an online and in-person mycology school and demonstration farm in Portland, with an emphasis on do-it-together approaches to making the world a better place by working with fungi.

The Administrative Assistant will manage customer service needs, address office-related tasks, and resolve assorted logistical needs as they arise.

Primary Roles include:

• Customer service and student account management
• Event, appointment, and media interview scheduling
• Logistics research and management
• Deliveries and materials pickups
• Online order fulfillment
• Copy editing
• Data entry

04/12/2019

~Climate Change & Fungi ~

A new study shows that nitrogen deposition, fire suppression, and climate change are shifting the relationships between trees and their mycorrhizal (plant-root-associating) fungi partners, with potential long-term negative impacts on carbon cycling, forest succession and productivity, and overall soil health and dynamism!

You can learn all about the profound importance of fungi in soils, forest health, and climate change – and just what this study truly implies – in our upcoming fungal ecology class, coming in July.

Plant-fungal symbioses play critical roles in vegetation dynamics and nutrient cycling, modulating the impacts of global changes on ecosystem functioning. Here, we used forest inventory data consisting of more than 3 million trees to develop a spatially resolved “mycorrhizal tree map” of the con...

04/11/2019

Peter McCoy was recently interviewed by the Chicago Humanities Festival for his upcoming talk at the Fest in May. Read about Peter's first steps into mycology, some cooking tips, and the most powerful mushroom of them all!

Fungi and lichen and spores, oh my! We talked about the power of mushrooms with Radical Mycologist Peter McCoy in preparation for his May event. Check out the conversation for insights about resource management, mushroom cooking tips, and the most powerful mushroom in the world!

03/18/2019

02/19/2019

MYCOLOGOS founder Peter McCoy was featured in this writeup on the current state of mycoremediation. This topic will be covered at length in two of our upcoming courses!

Proponents say it’s a natural, more benign, and potentially cheaper alternative to the "scrape and burn" approach to environmental clean-up.