Mycelium
Articles about the growing body of a fungus, made of branching hyphae, including how mycelium spreads, absorbs nutrients, decomposes material, and produces mushrooms.
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Fungi as Food Factories
Filed under: Fungi, Plants, Soil, and Gardens
Over the last three years I have added all kinds of organic material to my backyard. Pond muck, worm castings, compost, biochar, whatever I could find and thought might help. When you start with dry dead looking dirt, you spend a lot of time looking at things and wondering whether they belong in the soil…
The Simplest Way to Grow Your First Mushroom
Filed under: Growing Mushrooms Without Making It Scary
If you have never grown mushrooms before, a ready to fruit oyster mushroom block is probably the easiest place to start. You do not need to know how to make grain spawn, work with agar, use a pressure canner, or build anything resembling a laboratory. Most of that can come later if you decide you…
The Largest Organism on Earth Might Be a Mushroom
Filed under: The Hidden Fungal World
Ask someone to picture the largest organism on Earth and they will probably think of a blue whale. That makes sense. Blue whales are enormous, and they have the advantage of being visible. The organism usually considered the largest is much harder to see. Most of it is underground in eastern Oregon, quietly spreading through…
