Fungi
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Do mushrooms really use language to talk to each other? A fungi expert investigates
Nearly all of Earth’s organisms communicate with each other in one way or another, from the nods and dances and…
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How fungi’s knack for networking boosts ecological recovery after bushfires
The unprecedented bushfires that struck the east coast of Australia this summer killed an estimated one billion animals across millions…
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Making Mushroom Beds and Growing Organic Wine Cap Mushrooms
After moving to Western North Carolina and the Blue Ridge Mountains, Emma and I became fixated with mushrooms. Our life…
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Maitake Mushrooms
Temperatures are starting to suggest that autumn is arriving here in North Carolina. It’s teetering between summer swelter in the…
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Where is the World?
Professor Claude Bourguinon, co-founder of the Laboratoire Analyses Microbiologiques Sols (LAMS), an independent soil testing laboratory helping farmers understand their soil…
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Fastest Growing Trees in the Temperate Zone, Seed Harvesting and a Green Toad Gathering – The Polyculture Project
If you follow our project you will probably know that I like to name our gardens after concepts and terminology…
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Don’t waste your dog’s poo – compost it
Australia has one of the highest rates of pet ownership in the world, with 38% of Australian households owning dogs.…
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How to Make Instant Garden Beds
A common problem when just starting a garden is dealing with the fact that we’ve not had time to condition…
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Straw Bale Gardens
What do straw, paint brushes and the human blood circularity system have in common? The answer is capillaries, very narrow,…
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The Health Benefits of Raising Reishi Mushrooms
If something is working, you might as well continue to use it, as the saying goes. Reishi mushroom powder has…
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Raising Shiitake Mushrooms: An Inexpensive Delicacy
The Chinese have been using shiitake mushrooms as a nutritional and medicinal food for over 6,000 years. One of the…
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Mushrooms for Foraging: 7 (or More) Ways to Get Started
Emma and I arrived in North Carolina about two months ago, right around the height of morel season, and that…
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