how mushrooms can save the world.

Have you heard of TED yet? This is an amazingly powerful talk by Paul Stamets author of Mycelium Running about how mycelia and fungus can impact our environment.
check it out!

Big and Thick

It is hard to tell how big this is, but it is about the size of my fist and easily a 1/2 inch thick.

Dinner!

Look how big this thing is!
Straight off a log I thought was not even producing.

Proof! Well not scientific.

My wife and I were walking by this spot last week and to my surprise we found some oyster mushrooms. They are about a day past prime, but still wonderful. I want to say it has been about 2 or 2.5 years since I poured some spored oil on this stump and the trunk laying on the ground next to it about two weeks after it was cut down. The tree is still holding on to life.

Links to some cool sites

Brother Matt forwarded some links today, via CBS Sunday Morning story on mushroom foraging.

Far West Fungi -mushroom store in san francisco ferry building. Their website has some great mushroom facts, nutritional information, storage and handling info and wild mushroom calendar.

http://www.bayareamushrooms.org/index.html

Mycological Society of San Francisco

Brother Jon's backyard LBM's

These are some pics of nice looking LBM's that brother Jon found growing in his back yard. LBM's? Little Brown Mushrooms, not for eating or worrying about. Just leave them to their work.

Andra's Harvest

Look at what Andra found, while I'm living in Califoria.
She says these are the largest she's ever seen.
The other half are still on the logs.