A Short Break

Hey folks - the mushroom news has trickled to a drip and I plan to go into a mild stupor over this upcoming holiday weekend. So I’m going to take it easy for the next few days. For those of you who plan to travel to visit family and friends, be careful out there and […]

California Mushroom Walk

On Sunday, 26 November from 10 a.m. to noon, the Redwood Valley Outdoor Education Project (RVOEP) will host a Fall Mushroom Walk and Workshop led by local mushroom expert Mark Albert in Ukiah, California. With Albert as a guide, participants will have the opportunity to explore the mixed woodlands at the RVOEP to see what […]

Fairy Ring Photo

They Smell of Death and Sex…

The writer of the following paragraph - with the story to follow at The Observer - is named Rachel Cooke. The story is at once hilarious and insightful. She claims that her father was a mushroom expert and that he wrote a book on mushrooms. I can only think that her father is M.C. Cooke, […]

LA Times Article on Psilocybin

The L.A. Times has published a three-page article on how psilocybin is currently being used to test whether the mushroom could be used to alleviate the suffering of terminal cancer patients overcome with a sense of hopelessness, and to treat cluster headaches. The article is not well written, as it seems to float in and […]

Green Muscle vs. Locusts

Squadrons of aeroplanes dumping pesticides on agricultural land to head off locust invasions could be a thing of the past if a mushroom-based organic product currently being tested in Mauritania is successful. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Mauritanian Locust Centre are testing a clean biological agent meant to wipe out locusts, following […]