And in April, the first patients in Canada were able to receive psilocybin treatment through SAP for end-of-life anxiety. The book also covers tips and tricks for harvesting your mushrooms, a comprehensive troubleshooting guide and even design criteria for building a mushroom farm. “Our aspiration is to develop a biological-based psilocybin product to be used in clinical trials, and ultimately approved as an alternative to currently available formats,” says Tan, noting that most current research uses synthetic psilocybin. MycoSymbiotics—which Padilla-Brown runs with his business partner and girlfriend, Cassandra Posey, on their homestead with help from one employee—is small but growing. The company grows gourmet mushrooms in a shed, as well as in a brain on psilocybin few outdoor gardens, and sells several types of edible and medicinal mushrooms at farmers’ markets in Harrisburg and Lancaster, as well as a few restaurants. MycoSymbiotics is in the process of expanding from one to three grow-rooms to meet the rising demand from the larger restaurants recently added to its client roster.