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Understanding Liver Health: The Springboard to Rejuvenation
27.03.24

Understanding Liver Health: The Springboard to Rejuvenation

As the seasons change, spring offers a fresh start not just for nature but also for our health. The liver is at the forefront of...

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Choosing Your Tincture: Alcohol-Based or Alcohol-Free?
05.01.24

Choosing Your Tincture: Alcohol-Based or Alcohol-Free?

Are you new to functional mushrooms? Or considering which mushroom tincture is best for you? Be sure to check out our article, Which mushroom is best for me. In...

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Rainbo Forays 2023
09.19.23

Rainbo Forays 2023

Foray Schedule 2023 The purpose of our mushroom forays is for mushroom identification, education, connecting to nature and each other! Foray Dates Sunday October 1, 2023 - sign-up link...

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Benefits of Lion's Mane
03.11.22

Benefits of Lion's Mane

Four Benefits of Lion’s Mane Mushroom Lion’s Mane is a mushroom with a long history of use in Asian culture. It’s been used in Traditional Chinese medicine,...

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a bunch of different coloured mushrooms all piled together with dirt around and on them. Each mushroom is either orange, yellow, grey, beige or purple in colour
30.08.22

Rainbo Forays 2022

We're excited to announce our 2022 Rainbo Foray schedule, lead by the Rainbo team and Antonio Cillero Rodrigo from Mushroom Guerrilla. The purpose of the forays will...

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Rainbo is a B Corp!
28.03.22

Rainbo is a B Corp!

A note from our Founder Tonya. We're officially the first mushroom company to become a B Corp! Learn about what this means for us and why...

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glass of water with a hand dropping in Rainbo's 11:11 tincture into the glass of water so that it can be drank.
27.11.21

What is a Tincture?

What is a medicinal mushroom tincture? A mushroom tincture is simply an extract of mushrooms dissolved in alcohol.  An “extract” may be found in liquid...

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There are 5 individual tinctures in a row with a white background. Each tincture is fully white with text on it and the rainbo logo which is a rainbow. The tinctures in the photo are chaga, cordyceps, 11:11, lion's mane and reishi.
26.11.21

Which mushroom is best for me?

Confused on how to choose between mushroom tinctures? We hear you! We've been getting this question from many of you. Read on if you're unsure of...

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Fruiting Body vs Mycelium
30.09.21

Fruiting Body vs Mycelium

When we talk about 'mushrooms' at large, we are generally referring to the fruiting body structure of the fungus. However the mushroom structure isn't a...

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Rainbo Forays 2021
02.09.21

Rainbo Forays 2021

We're excited to announce our 2022 Rainbo Foray schedule, lead by Tonya Papanikolov, Holliday Cartar and Antonio Cillero Rodrigo from Mushroom Guerrilla. The purpose of the forays...

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Cordyceps
01.09.21

Cordyceps

Cordyceps What is it? Known as "Himalayan gold" because traditionally Cordyceps were found high in the Himalayan plateaus and stumbling  upon this fungus was akin...

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Rainbo is Climate Neutral Certified
24.08.21

Rainbo is Climate Neutral Certified

Exciting news! We’re officially Climate Neutral Certified! The reality is that even after facing an unprecedented global pandemic (and everything else 2020 threw at us),...

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An elderly woman in a purple outfit with white flowers on the left side. She is crouched down, inspecting mushrooms in woven baskets on the floor.
03.08.21

Ethnomycology

What is ethnomycology? Ethnomycology is the combination of ethnography (the study of the customs of individual peoples and cultures) and mycology (the study of fungi)....

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reishi, ganoderma lucidum growing on a stump
07.07.21

Reishi

Reishi, Ganoderma Lucidum AKA the Queen of Medicinal Mushrooms! This beautiful, glossy mushroom is known for its bitter taste caused by a high concentration of triterpenoid compounds indicative...

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Mycobiome
28.06.21

Mycobiome

Our gut is abundant with organisms that are pivotal for our well-being. Some of those organisms are fungi! Like everything in life, gut fungi need...

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The Medicinal Mushroom Lexicon
20.06.21

The Medicinal Mushroom Lexicon

Navigating the medicinal mushroom world can come with a lot of new jargon. From fungal biology, to herbal medicine terminology to our physiological and molecular responses....

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Lion's Mane
04.06.21

Lion's Mane

Lion's Mane, Hericium erinaceus What is it? Lion’s Mane mushroom is an aptly named big white mushroom with long shaggy-like “hair“ that grows off the sides...

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Shrooms vs Mushrooms
28.05.21

Shrooms vs Mushrooms

Magic mushrooms are considered medicinal and have been used for millennia for their healing powers. However, magic mushrooms do not encompass the entire world of...

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Chaga Mushroom
19.05.21

Chaga Mushroom

Chaga, Inonotus obliquus What is it? The most popular fungus in Northern European traditional medicine, Chaga is referred to as the King of Mushrooms - although...

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Climate Neutral Committed logo with mountains and trees in background.
22.04.21

Our Climate Neutral Commitment

To celebrate the 51st anniversary of Earth Day, we're excited to announce that Rainbo is going Climate Neutral! This means that we will be measuring, offsetting and...

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Women in Mycology
03.04.21

Women in Mycology

Who were the women in mycology? The scientific study of fungi, has a history largely dominated by male researchers. The pivotal work of women in...

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turkey tail medicinal mushrooms that are vibrant orange, purple, blue in colour
10.03.21

Turkey Tail

If you enjoy long walks in the forest then you know this mushroom. Turkey tail is a polypore mushroom and it's the most common fungi in Canada and throughout...

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How to cook with Mushrooms
29.01.21

How to cook with Mushrooms

Learn our tips on how to cook with culinary and medicinal mushrooms. Tip 1: buy organic (if possible). Tip 2: always cook your mushrooms. Tip...

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Our Mushrooms
03.12.20

Our Mushrooms

Learn more about our mushrooms! Cultivation, Canadian grown and sourced, real fruiting-body mushroom, potent extractions, full spectrum, third party lab tested to ensure purity and potency. Proudly...

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