You know adulting has launched successfully when the idea of fun isn’t pretending the floor is lava or watching Mentos explode in Diet Coke, but instead, you’re obsessing over growing your own ...

Growing crops you can eat is incredibly rewarding. But, for many gardeners, mushrooms are not on their to-grow list. This is probably because growing mushrooms is a bit different from how you grow ...

Spawn plugs before and after the mushroom mycelium has grown on them. Learn how to make mushroom spawn at home on a mushroom grow log to kick-start your backyard permaculture forest. If you’re ...

The gray, gnarly-looking mushrooms lurking in the last row of the salad bar have never been that appetizing to me. In fact, I avoid them at all costs. So, when I decided to test at-home mushroom ...

Using the raft or trenched log method, you can produce an overwhelming number of fruitbodies in a single flush. All the mushrooms on this colonized raft are considered one organism, because the ...

When Steve Shapson attended a mushroom growing seminar about 15 years ago, he learned that with a high-speed drill, some pasteurized sawdust inoculated with mushroom spawn, and a few logs he could ...

Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

There are over 14,000 species of mushrooms on Earth, ranging from poisonous death caps to delicious morels to mushrooms of the psychedelic variety. I’m sure you’ve seem them growing from soil, cow ...

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MILLS RIVER, North Carolina (WLOS) — A man in Mills River is passionate about fungi and he loves to share his mushroom knowledge. In 1999, Greg Carter – we will call him “Johnny Mushroom Spore’ – was ...