In a small section of Pennsylvania, indoor farms are producing more than a million pounds of mushrooms every day. Farmers in Chester County, Pennsylvania, have been producing mushrooms since the late 1800s, when several local Quakers decided to grow them in the space underneath their flowerbeds, NPR reported in 2012,…

The Hessischer Pilztag took place on november 8th 2017 in Kerns in Switzerland. It was a very well-attended program with over more than 100 participants from 12 countries including of course many Germans, Swiss and Dutch, but also Spaniards and Israelis. In addition to interesting lectures, there was a company…

A file photo of the elfin saddle mushroom. Photo: Jerzy Opioła via Wikimedia Commons A rare type of fungus which has not been spotted in the Netherlands for almost 30 years has re-emerged in a nature reserve in Twente, according to website Nature Today. The hooded false morel or the…

From october 5 to 7, the 69th anniversary of the Federation of German Mushrooms and Cultivated Mushrooms (BDC e.V.) took place in Darmstadt. The program was packed with an exciting mix of topics in various fields; PR, Added value and energetic use through Champost, How do Fungi comunicate with their…

Much of the construction industry depends on fossil fuels, creating a big carbon footprint. As pressure mounts to make construction "greener", experts have started to design houses out of hemp and straw, and bricks made of mushrooms. From a distance, it looks like something out of a desert landscape, ancient…

On Thursday April 19 2018, the National Mushroom Day (DNP) is organized for the sixth time by Scelta Mushrooms, Delphy, LTO Mushrooms and Mushroom Valley. The theme is 'accelerating the mushroom world'.The latest edition of DNP was organized at the mushroom farm Sikes in Ysselsteyn.Location this time is The Scelta…