Lion's mane steaks 🥩

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Twice the shrooms in one week?

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Eye candy 🍭

Alt-meat … so hot right now: Lion’s mane mushroom “steaks” just dropped at Natural Products Expo West, courtesy of Hong Kong-based OmniFoods.

Growing gourmet 👨‍🍳

Sustainable shroomin’: Produce Now is using shipping containers as climate-controlled mushroom Grow Pods.

Mad scientist: Eric Myers supplies Wichita, Kansas, with garage-grown gourmet and functional mushrooms.

Legislation nation 📝

Advanced trip sitting: Denver first responders will soon be trained in safe and compassionate ways to handle psychedelic crisis incidents.

Unanimous approval: The Maryland Senate voted in favor of a psychedelics task force to research ways of implementing legal psychedelic access.

Research roundup 👩‍🔬

“Biocycle” day: Cleveland’s Redhouse Studio uses mushrooms to break down toxic teardown waste from the city’s condemned buildings.

Flawed trials: Some researchers are raising vital methodological concerns in the psilocybin therapy and psychedelic research space.

Carbon negative: Scientists have found that planting trees alongside mushroom crops could boost the combo’s carbon elimination abilities.

Across the shroomer-verse 🌟

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Make no mistake: Tell the difference between mushroom friend or poisonous foe in your garden with shroomer’s common yard mushroom guide.