Steppin' Out Of Babylon: Radio Interviews

Paul Stamets is President of Fungi Perfecti, a mail-order business supplying cultures, equipment and mycotechnologies to mushroom cultivators throughout the world. He has discovered four new species of mushrooms and pioneered countless techniques in the field of edible and medicinal mushroom cultivation and in "fungal bioremediation". He has authored five books including Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms, The Mushroom Cultivator, Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World and many articles and scholarly papers. His passion is to preserve, protect and clone as many ancestral strains as possible from the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest where he lives. In 2003 Stamets received a patent on mycopesticides which have the potential to replace most pesticides without harming the environment. He spoke at the 2004 Bioneers in San Rafael, California where this interview was conducted.His 6th book is Mycelium Running. Stamets' work is incredibly important for our health and future!