Growing your own Morels ?

Morels are still essentially a wild product today. For the past twenty years, China has displayed itself as a pioneer in the cultivation of morels....

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Tantalizing Truffles

At this time every Year, the Montréal en lumière Festival is a unique chance to discover some of the World’s best chefs. A few days ago, after a da...

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Eldorado in Hell

In October 2016, Miro and Fanny, in their late twenties, were preparing a trip to Yukon: like thousands of other apprentice adventurers, they were ...

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What's in a name?

The official name of a species is an internationally recognized origin certification: it determines the commercial value of a given mushroom. Thus,...

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The Secret of Fairy Rings

Numerous species of mushrooms draw on the ground circles which have, at all times, intrigued. The story begins with a spore germinating and releasi...

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Brexit and Mushrooms

Toadstools is a British word for suspect mushrooms. In the 5th Century, Germanic tribes, migrating from northern Germany, brought the rather unappe...

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Holistic mushrooms

From April first to July 20th 1934, Austrian anthropologist David Winkler stayed in a northern Amazonian region where he visited remote Wayampi vi...

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Mushrooms named desire

Through time and people, mushrooms have had the reputation of boosting sexual ardour.   The truffle, for example, had this reputation among ancient...

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Dry Rot Fungus: the nightmare

Serpula lacrymans Some mushrooms do not only bring benefits. In our area of northeastern North America, the dry rot fungus (Serpula lacrymans) has ...

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Greed in the mushroom patch

In a public confession written over 21 years ago, disclosed only early this year, Olympic champion Wang Junxia, 46 years old today, and nine of her...

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