Mushroom Business is ShroomBooming!
Quick answer: The mushroom business is booming, and this report explains why now is a great time to enter it. It covers ten drivers fueling the ShroomBoom: psilocybin decriminalization, mushrooms as a sustainable superfood and medicine, the alternative-meat market, fungi for waste cleanup, and the wellness boom. The takeaway: growing mushrooms can be both a […]
Urban Mushroom Farm: How to Grow 2,000lb/Week
Quick answer: This is the story of Tivoli Mushrooms, an urban farm north of New York City that grew to nearly 2,000 pounds of mushrooms a week — built by founder Devon Gilroy with no prior cultivation experience while working full-time as a chef. It shares his hard-won advice: keep at least five months of […]
Grow Mushrooms: 10 Reasons Why
Quick answer: If you are on the fence about growing your own mushrooms, this post gives you ten reasons to take the leap. It covers the flavour and nutrition of fresh gourmet mushrooms, their health and medicinal benefits, how cheap and space-efficient cultivation can be, the sustainability upside, and the simple joy and connection to […]
Fungi Academy: An Introduction to Mycology
Sometimes called the navel of the planet and the most beautiful lake in the world, Lago Atitlan and a community and learning experiment called the Fungi Academy would become the landscape for my questions and wandering nature.
Mad Fungi Scientist Unite!
Guadalajara Mushroom Friends Fungi lovers are sprinkled throughout the world, country to country, state to state, separated by language barriers, cultures, and beliefs. Our mission is to break down the imaginary barriers and connect through the world of mushrooms. The date is November 22, 2016, and 7 of us are adventuring the heart of Guadalajara, […]
Companion Gardening with Fungi in San Luis Obispo
Quick answer: This post follows the FungiBus crew’s first official road-trip stop at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where graduate Nathan Whitman is building a mushroom lab and a solar-powered pasteurization barrel. His team’s companion-gardening trials found king stropharia (garden giant) and a mycorrhizal fungi blend produced lusher, healthier, more drought-tolerant plants. King stropharia is […]
A Day in the Life
Quick answer: This post offers a warm window into everyday life at the Fungi Academy community in San Marcos, Guatemala in 2016. It walks through a typical day: shared breakfasts with volcano views, intention-setting morning circles, mushroom cultivation work (including harvesting white oyster mushrooms and taking spore prints), growing local food, avocado-foraging missions, and calm […]
Cultivating White Oysters in Tzununá
Quick answer: This post tells the story of Eva, a Kaqchikel Mayan woman in Tzununa, Guatemala who has grown and sold white oyster mushrooms for two years. She cultivates them on corn cob (“elote”) substrate, returning the spent bundles to farmers as fertilizer in a local circular economy. It covers her two-room setup, overcoming local […]
