Occupation: Author Birth: July 17, 1955
Although the trends are promising and reishi mushrooms exhibit a number of interesting medicinal properties, modern scientific techniques have yet to….
Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation tha….
Fungi are the interface organisms between life and death..
Enoki mushrooms, a tasty variety commonly sold in grocery stores, were one of the first mushrooms studied for preventing cancer..
Maitake mushrooms are known in Japan as “the dancing mushroom.” According to a Japanese legend, a group of Buddhist nuns and woodcutters met on a mou….
Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration..
Although oyster mushrooms have been studied extensively and support health in a number of ways, it is also extremely important to always cook oyster ….
Growing the mycelium of the Chaga mushroom under laboratory conditions provides an ecologically friendly alternative supply of this unique medicinal ….
Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identi….
Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. T….
Mycologists are few and far between. We are under-funded, poorly represented in the context of other sciences - ironic as the very foundation of our ….
Mycelium is Earth's natural Internet..
Lions mane may be our first smart mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population..
Vitamin D from mushrooms is not only vegan and vegetarian friendly, but you can prepare your own by exposing mushrooms to the summer sun..
The task that we face today is to understand the language of nature..
Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental hea….
I believe nature is a force of good. Good is not only a concept, it is a spirit.
In the wild, an enoki mushroom is often squat-looking and its stem is rarely more than twice as long as the cap is wide. When they are grown by farme….
Nature is a numbers game. We need all the support we can get as our immune systems and health are under assault from pollution, stress, contaminated ….
For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe..
I believe that mycelium is the neurological network of nature. Interlacing mosaics of mycelium infuse habitats with information-sharing membranes. Th….