🍄 Fungi Academy
Mycology 101
A live intro class on the Fungi — where they come from, why they’ve been tangled up with us for thousands of years, and why they’re not plants. No biology background needed. Just curiosity.
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What is mycology?
From the ancient Greek for fungus. By the end you’ll be a mycophile — a fungus lover — or I haven’t done my job. And no, fungi aren’t plants. They get their own kingdom.
Humans & fungi, way back
The Red Lady of El Mirón — 19,000 years old, with mushroom spores still on her teeth. Ötzi the Iceman carrying fungi on his hip 5,000 years ago. We go back further than you’d think.
What a fungus actually is
Not all fungi make mushrooms. Not all of them make mycelium. We walk through hyphae, mycelium and spores — one giant puffball can hold around 7 trillion of them.
Fungi as food
Why you have to cook them (chitin), how fungal protein stacks up against plant and animal protein, and what a fungus-rich plate actually looks like.
A real class, not a course
Mycology 101 is a recorded live lecture. Real students, real questions, and me going off on tangents — Roman fish sauce, Emperor Claudius getting poisoned by a death cap, how Ötzi carried fire around in a mushroom. The kind of class I wish I’d had at school.
No modules. No quizzes. Just me sharing the thing I love most and answering whatever the room throws at me — from radiocarbon dating to whether you can freeze fresh mushrooms.
🕐 Runtime: ~100 minutes · 🌍 No prior knowledge needed · 📱 Watch on any device
Jasper Degenaars
I’m the founder of Fungi Academy and, somewhere along the way, picked up the title Hyphae Headmaster. I’m Dutch, born in 1993, and these days I live off-grid on the shore of Lake Atitlán in Guatemala, where we run courses, retreats and a podcast all about the Fungi. Mushrooms cracked my world open years ago and I haven’t shut up about them since — Mycology 101 is where I get to start you right at the beginning.
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Mycology 101
$47
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- Full ~100 min live lecture recording
- Watch on any device, anytime
- Lifetime access — yours to keep
- Certificate of completion
30-day money-back guarantee — if it’s not for you, just email us.
Quick answers
Nope. This is built for curious beginners. I start from the very beginning — including what the word “mycology” even means — so you don’t need to know a thing going in.
It’s a recording of a real live session — so you get all the energy, the student questions, and the spontaneous tangents of a live class, on demand whenever you want it.
Around 100 minutes — roughly 1 hour 40. Watch it in one sitting or split it across a couple of sessions, whatever works for you.
Lifetime access. Once you enroll it’s yours to come back to whenever you like.
Full 30-day money-back guarantee. Email hello@fungiacademy.com within 30 days if it’s not for you and we’ll refund you, no questions asked.
