my rising fascination with (yup!) fungus
A WEIRD COMMON THREAD—OR SHOULD I SAY FILAMENT?—ran by means of my net browsing this week. I appear to be hanging out among the many fungi, these all-important neither-plants-nor-animals which…
rising yard mushrooms, with michael judd
I’VE CONFESSED BEFORE to a fascination with fungus–as in mushrooms—that sprout unexpectedly within the backyard. Maybe stunning is that I’ve by no means deliberately grown any edible mushrooms. Ecological and…
fungi galore: a digital feast of mushrooms
LATELY EVERYTHING’S COMING UP MUSHROOMS. Or so it appeared to me the previous couple of days, when a narrative from the archives that I’d completed on my fascination with fungi…
fascinating fungus: a mushroom replace
WITH ULTRA-MOIST CONDITIONS this summer-into-fall, I’ve to say the factor doing the perfect within the backyard are the mushrooms. One odd-looking fungus after one other is sprouting from mulch, on…
what lichens are telling us, with dr. james lendemer
IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS about lichens, you name a lichenologist. And so I did—in behalf of apprehensive readers asking what to do about lichens rising on the bark of timber…
feed the soil: my experiment with mycorrhizae
I ALWAYS SAY “feed the soil, not the vegetation,” which for many years has meant to me to show in compost—heaps and many compost, after which extra—and each few years…
a world of loopy heirloom cucumbers, with jay tracy of the cucumber store
IF YOU THINK you understand what a cucumber is, assume once more. Spend even 5 minutes on the web site of The Cucumber Store, a ardour mission of cucumber-mad Jay…
ripening tomatoes—and saving seed, with craig lehoullier
AROUND THIS TIME every summer time, I stay up for the onslaught of recent tomatoes whereas on the identical time hoping towards hope that what I name tomato troubles don’t…
fruitful landscapes: the beginning of a meals forest, with michael judd
THE TERM “meals forest” from the permaculture world sounds large—like if I steered you begin one, you’d most likely say, “I don’t have room for a forest of any sort.”…
seed procuring, with lia babitch of turtle tree seed
LET THE seed procuring season start. The 2024 choices are being loaded into seed-catalog web sites, and the earliest print catalogs are already arriving in our mailboxes, as if to…