mushrooms & other fungi Archives - A Way To Garden https://awaytogarden.com/category/nature/mushrooms-fungi/ 'horticultural how-to and woo-woo' with margaret roach, head gardener Sat, 27 Nov 2021 15:29:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 9651199 the wonder of lichens, with jessica allen https://awaytogarden.com/the-wonder-of-lichens-with-jessica-allen/ https://awaytogarden.com/the-wonder-of-lichens-with-jessica-allen/#comments Fri, 26 Nov 2021 16:01:06 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=50897 SOME OF THE most beautiful and intricate creatures in the garden are not plants at all. A diversity of lichen is showing off right now on tree bark and branches, on stones, on unpainted garden furniture and even soil, more visible since many of the garden’s plants have quieted down visually for their dormant season. Let’s go on a virtual lichen walk with lichenologist Jessica Allen, co-author of a new book on the subject. Jessica Allen is an Assistant Professor of Integrative Plant Biology at Eastern Washington University. And before that she pursued her PhD at New York Botanical Garden in a joint program with the City University of New York. At NYBG she met lichenologist James Lendemer, and years later, when she conceived of creating the new book, “Urban Lichens: A Field Guide for Northeastern North America” (affiliate link), she invited him to collaborate, as they have continued to do on lichen research work over the years. (Photo below, by Paul Super, is of the pair examining lichens in the Smokies.) Plus: Enter to win their new lichen field guide from Yale University Press by commenting in the box near the bottom of the page. Read along as you […]

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]]> https://awaytogarden.com/the-wonder-of-lichens-with-jessica-allen/feed/ 255 50897 ‘the way through the woods: of mushrooms and mourning,’ with long litt woon https://awaytogarden.com/the-way-through-the-woods-of-mushrooms-and-mourning-with-long-litt-woon/ https://awaytogarden.com/the-way-through-the-woods-of-mushrooms-and-mourning-with-long-litt-woon/#comments Sat, 16 Nov 2019 12:39:08 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=46179 I HAVE ONLY in recent years tuned in to mushrooms really at all, despite much of a life spent engaged with the outdoors. So when I saw a review in late summer of a new book called “The Way Through the Woods: Of Mushrooms and Mourning”—part memoir, part primer on fungi—it caught my attention. “The Way Through the Woods” (Amazon affiliate link) is by Long Litt Woon, an anthropologist originally from Malaysia who has spent her adult life living in Norway. It’s at once both an invitation to the astonishing world of fungi and also the personal story of a path of healing from great grief. I was treated to a conversation with Woon, about how she got started with mushrooming and where it has led her. Read along as you listen to the November 18, 2019 edition of my public-radio show and podcast using the player below. You can subscribe to all future editions on iTunes or Spotify or Stitcher (and browse my archive of podcasts here). Plus: Enter to win a copy of Woon’s book, in the comment box at the very bottom of the page. talking mushrooms, with long litt woon     Margaret Roach: Welcome, Woon, […]

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]]> https://awaytogarden.com/the-way-through-the-woods-of-mushrooms-and-mourning-with-long-litt-woon/feed/ 325 46179 growing mushrooms (and how fungi grow themselves), with john michelotti https://awaytogarden.com/growing-mushrooms-and-how-fungi-grow-themselves-with-john-michelotti/ https://awaytogarden.com/growing-mushrooms-and-how-fungi-grow-themselves-with-john-michelotti/#respond Sat, 30 Mar 2019 15:10:28 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=44900 HAVE YOU EVER grown mushrooms? Or perhaps they’ve just grown themselves in different parts of your garden at different moments of the season and you’ve wondered: why there, and why then? I know I do; I’m fascinated by fungi. I asked John Michelotti of Catskill Fungi to encourage us to try cultivating some edible ones and to go take a mushroom walk too, to get to meet some of the incredible diversity out there. John (with cultivated shiitake, above) is a self-described “mushroom guy” and has studied fungi with some of the country’s top mycologists. On his family farm in Big Indian, New York, he cultivates indoor and outdoor mushrooms, and provides guided mushroom classes, cultivation courses, private consultations, and even creates mushroom health extracts. John is also part of the Amazon Mycorenewal Project (CoRenewal), researching the utilization of fungi to remediate oil spills in the Amazon Rain Forest. Read along as you listen to the April 1, 2019 edition of my public-radio show and podcast using the player below. You can subscribe to all future editions on iTunes or Spotify or Stitcher (and browse my archive of podcasts here). take a mushroom-growing class or walk with john FOR LOCAL […]

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