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Shitake Mushroom Cultivation Training in Nepal
Tika Aryal teaches farmers in Nepal how to grow mushrooms to improve their livelihood. His attached report describes his education program. “In Nepal, mushroom cultivation began in 1976. Nowadays it...
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Shiitake Mushrooms Emerge at City Farmer’s Garden
Maria’s ‘babies’ have finally arrived in large numbers. Carefully watched and nurtured since April, 2007, these Shiitake mushrooms are ready for harvest. They have grown on oak logs that were culled...
View ArticleGarden Giants Emerge – more edible mushrooms
Our Maria is not just a Bug Lady, she’s a ‘Mushroom Lady’ as well. Hidden amongst the large squash leaves in the Youth Garden are some wonderful edible mushrooms she started last spring. Maria shows...
View ArticlePaul Stamets, mushroom maven, speaks with Maria
Paul Stamets, mushroom maven, from Maria Keating on Vimeo. Also see alternative HD High Definition version on YouTube. Paul Stamets at the Hollyhock workshop. Maria Keating, our in-house bug lady,...
View ArticleThe Urban Mushroom Guys – 2010 BusinessWeek Top 25 Social Entrepreneurs
100% sustainable urban mushroom farm By Sarah Henry Berkeleyside Nov 12th, 2010 Excerpt: There’s so much buzz around the fledgling food business launched last year by two former University of...
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An Effort to Reduce Adverse Effects of Wild Mushroom Consumption in Nepal
A Girl Chopping Collected wild mushroom. Photo by Tika Ram Aryal. Mushroom poisoning is a great problem in Nepal Tika Ram Aryal Department of Science and Environment Education, Tribhuwan University,...
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Mushrooms produced in your kitchen
What If a Mushroom Designed Your Kitchen? By Nick Sowers Good Magazine March 15, 2011 Excerpt: The first proposal is the “Shiitake Cabinet,” a temperature- and humidity-controlled container which...
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Foraging in Vancouver: There’s still a free lunch if you look for it
Robin Kort: “I grew up in Vancouver, so I’ve been foraging for mushrooms all my life with my dad and my grampa.” Photograph by Vancouver Sun. “Nibble on a begonia petal and it will blow your mind,...
View ArticleMushroom Man – Paul Stamets
Mushroom Man | Leslie Iwerks from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo. Short video introducing his work Paul Stamets believes we have entered into the 6th major extinction on our planet. He presents...
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Dutch agri-preneurs turn abandoned water park into bustling mushroom farm
Urban agriculture meets adaptive reuse at a busy little mushroom-farming initiative named RotterZwam. By Matt Hickman MNN Sept 11, 2014 Excerpt: Now just a little over a year old, the venture, dubbed...
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Uk Mushroom Farm Recycling Coffee Waste
“Growing mushrooms in this way is absolutely ideal for Urban Agriculture” By Ben Messenger Waste Management World 19 September 2014 Excerpt: The UK’s first urban mushroom farm that grows oyster...
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Cincinnati man starts mushroom farm
Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage resident Romain Picasso holds a jar of shiitake mushroom spawn in the propagation room he’s built at the Ecovillage’s greenhouse complex. (Photo: Thanks to Nancy...
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Mushroom Mini Farm Sold in Whole Foods, Home Depot
What started as curiosity about urban farming has turned into a passion for “undoing food” From Back to the Roots website: In a college class, we learned that mushrooms could grow on recycled coffee...
View ArticleGroCycle Online Course Will Bring Network of Mushroom Growers
Step-by-step instructions to turn anyone into a used coffee ground mushroom farmer We decided to bring this ultra eco-friendly idea to the rest of the world with our GroCycle Online course. People...
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This urban farm is growing mushrooms for Cincinnati’s food scene
Probasco Urban Farm grows mushrooms from long bags that are suspended from the ceiling under fluorescent lights. “My current focus is to produce mushroom species that grow quickly and need less...
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Manchester’s first inner city mushroom farm
Inside the Biospheric Studio’s mushroom farm. It’s really interesting to think about how forest systems work and how urban societies can learn from them By Lucy Lovell Munchies Vice September 21, 2015...
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Mycelial Mayhem
Growing Mushrooms for Fun, Profit and Companion Planting By David Sewak & Kristin Sewak New Society Books March 2016 Most supermarket mushrooms are bland and boring; products of an industrial...
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How a passionate young Colombian is helping redraw urban farming in U.S.
Alejandro Velez. Back to Roots products are currently offered in over 14,000 stores worldwide, including Whole Foods, Target, Costco, Kroger, Nordstrom, Petco and Cost Plus World Market. By Mar Yvette...
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Mycorrhizal Planet
Forthcoming February, 2017. How Symbiotic Fungi Work with Roots to Support Plant Health and Build Soil Fertility By Michael Phillips Chelsea Green Publishing Feb. 2017 Mycorrhizal fungi have been...
View ArticleAntwerp, Belgium: ‘Caffungi’ urban farming – Turning coffee ground into...
(Be sure to turn on English subtitles. Use the gear icon at the bottom of the YouTube image.) ‘In Belgium, too, we have an excess of organic waste, such as, for example, the large amounts of coffee...
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