Mycophilia
Mar. 11th, 2010 06:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
urbpanI kind of lost my temper the other day with that Las Vegas mushroom article, so it's nice to get some good mushroom press in my inbox:
Here's a great piece from San Francisco about how to encourage different kinds of mushrooms to grwo in your garden. The article describes four different basic mushroom niches (parasite, saprobe, symbiote, and "opportunist" a new category for me) and how to encourage what you want and discourage ones that might destroy your trees. The whole tone of the article is myco-positive and well worth passing along.
This blog post warmed my heart. A class at a Montessori school did a unit on fungi including a lot of hands-on learning, and culminating in some eating. These are 3-6 year old children, in a unit called "Taxonomy: the Fungi Kingdom." These kids have an amazing head start in understanding the role of fungi in the environment, and the teachers have prevented mycophobia from developing in a whole group of young people. I love the photos of these very small children handling the mushrooms, and holding them right up to their faces to smell them--no masks or gloves needed!
Edited to add part 2.
Here's a great piece from San Francisco about how to encourage different kinds of mushrooms to grwo in your garden. The article describes four different basic mushroom niches (parasite, saprobe, symbiote, and "opportunist" a new category for me) and how to encourage what you want and discourage ones that might destroy your trees. The whole tone of the article is myco-positive and well worth passing along.
This blog post warmed my heart. A class at a Montessori school did a unit on fungi including a lot of hands-on learning, and culminating in some eating. These are 3-6 year old children, in a unit called "Taxonomy: the Fungi Kingdom." These kids have an amazing head start in understanding the role of fungi in the environment, and the teachers have prevented mycophobia from developing in a whole group of young people. I love the photos of these very small children handling the mushrooms, and holding them right up to their faces to smell them--no masks or gloves needed!
Edited to add part 2.
