Category Archives: Cultivation

Many types of mushrooms can be grown for personal or commercial use.

Mushroom cultivation class to be held this month

  By Christopher May | 02/13/2016 - 11:55 am |02/13/2016 Arizona, Classes, Cultivation, Oysters

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Many of our readers will be interested to learn of an instructional class in mushroom growing that will be held in Phoenix later in February. There was already a Tucson … Continue reading →

Reorganization of the Arizona Mushroom Club

  By Christopher May | 12/23/2015 - 8:08 pm |12/26/2015 Arizona, Arizona Mushroom Club, Arizona Mushroom Forum Blog, Classes, Clubs & Organizations, Cultivation, Dinners, Forays, Medicinal Mushrooms, Meetings

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Important News I have a significant announcement about the Arizona Mushroom Club that will be of interest to current, prospective, and former members. A major reorganization is now well under way. … Continue reading →

Lightning Makes Mushrooms Multiply

  By Christopher May | 09/23/2014 - 12:47 am |09/23/2014 Asia, Boletes, Coprinus, Cultivation, Europe, Morels, Science & Microscopy, Truffles, Weather, Climate, & Fire

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De tuberibus haec traduntur peculiariter: Cum fuerint imbres autumnales, ac tonitrua crebra, tune nasci, & maxime e tonitribus. [Pliny the Elder, Hist. Nat., Bk 19:37] (If the air is troubled … Continue reading →

Recap of the 2014 Telluride Mushroom Festival

  By Christopher May | 08/29/2014 - 10:48 pm |09/06/2014 Books & Media, Chanterelles, Classes, Colorado, Cultivation, Dinners, Festivals, Forays, Hawk-wings, King Boletes, Medicinal Mushrooms, Meetings, Mexico, Mushroom Dyes & Crafts, Mushroom Photography, Preservation, Recipes, Russula, Science & Microscopy, Trip Reports

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If you ever wanted to spend four or five days completely immersed in the Kingdom of Fungi, there’s no place on earth like the Telluride Mushroom Festival in Colorado, held at … Continue reading →

A personal message from Rebecca Fyffe, director of the Telluride Mushroom Festival

  By Christopher May | 05/26/2014 - 12:20 pm |05/26/2014 Colorado, Cultivation, Festivals, Medicinal Mushrooms

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Rebecca Fyffe, who is in charge of the Telluride Mushroom Festival, posted this today. Barb and I are going, and hope to see some of you there too. “Dear Friend, I … Continue reading →

A Chinese mushroom adventure at the Illinois Mycological Society

  By Christopher May | 04/03/2014 - 2:44 pm |04/03/2014 Arizona, Arizona Mushroom Club, Asia, Cultivation, Dinners, Medicinal Mushrooms, Midwestern US, Preservation, Restaurant Reviews

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The Illinois Mycological Society recently had a “Chinese Mushroom Banquet and Indoor Apothecary Foray” that was a sold-out success.  Such a success, in fact, that they’ll be doing it again this weekend. … Continue reading →

Fungi Compete with Meat in Burgers

  By Christopher May | 03/30/2014 - 12:34 pm |03/30/2014 Cultivation, Recipes, Restaurant Reviews

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From National Public Radio, a story about rapidly increasing interest in using mushrooms as an extender for ground meats, especially hamburgers.  According to this story, a hamburger made of 50% … Continue reading →

The Last Mushroom Farms of the Paris Catacombs

  By Christopher May | 02/25/2014 - 11:11 pm |02/25/2014 Agaricus, Cultivation, Europe, Topography & Geology

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It was not so long ago that all mushrooms were wild mushrooms, and no one had any knowledge of how to grow them deliberately. Then one day in about 1650, … Continue reading →

The best calendar of upcoming fungal events

  By Christopher May | 02/19/2014 - 11:19 pm |05/22/2014 Cultivation, Events, Permanent Resource

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I was thinking about installing an event calendar on this site to keep track of festivals, meetings, and major forays, but after checking out the Mushroom Grower’s Newsletter site, there … Continue reading →

2014 Telluride Shroomfest rescheduled

  By Christopher May | 02/18/2014 - 10:59 pm |06/25/2014 Colorado, Cultivation, Medicinal Mushrooms, Meetings, Mycophagy, Science & Microscopy

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  Each August the Telluride Mushroom Festival (Shroomfest) brings together some of the biggest names and quirkiest personalities in the world of mycology for one of the most distinctive mushroom … Continue reading →

The Radical Mycology project, and a word about psychoactive mushrooms

  By Christopher May | 12/31/2013 - 11:02 pm |12/14/2014 Classes, Clubs & Organizations, Cultivation, Environment, Medicinal Mushrooms, Science & Microscopy

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If you want to talk about the scientific or cultural aspects of the psychoactive mushrooms, or show a picture of one found in the wild, feel free to do so. Continue reading →

2013 Arizona Mushroom Club Holiday Meeting & Potluck – December 13

  By Christopher May | 10/23/2013 - 3:47 pm |10/23/2013 Arizona Mushroom Club, Classes, Cultivation, Meetings, Preservation, Recipes

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Sandy Melgaard of the Arizona Mushroom Club sends out this announcement: ——– ARIZONA MUSHROOM CLUB ANNUAL HOLIDAY MEETING and POTLUCK DINNER DECEMBER 13, 2013, AT 6:30 P.M. 4341 EAST BROADWAY … Continue reading →