Posts Tagged ‘mushroom growing’
Thanks to a tip from @mushrooming, we learn of some recent research out of Japan that could lead to greater yields of mushrooms. It sounds like something Nicola Tesla would have tried (who knows, maybe he even did) but according to Lightning-powered mushrooms could boost food yields: Japanese farming lore has long observed that plentiful [...]
Tags: electricity, mushroom growing, nameko, shiitake
Good on the man who wakes up one morning and says to himself, “You know, poaching sucks. I think I’ll try mushroom farming.” Apparently that is just what some poachers are saying in Thailand these days (er, sort of, maybe?) This according to an AFP article (and I don’t know exactly what AFP is, although [...]
Tags: mushroom growing, oyster mushroom, poachers, sustainable agriculture, Thailand
The Dragon’s Den. Sounds like the title of sci-fi/fantasy novel or a place to NOT take the kids in Tokyo. But no. Dragon’s Den is a BBC television program wherein entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to a panel of “Britain’s top business brains.” I’ll bet one of them is a mean British guy. It was about [...]
Tags: Dragon's Den, mushroom farm, mushroom growing, truffle, UK truffles
Not Mushroom. For Error, er… Not. Mushroom For Error, uh… Not! Mushroom for Error. Nah… The heck with it. I don’t get the title, but Not mushroom for error is a full-length article about Gary and Michele Akers who recently started a small mushroom growing operation in Australia. It has involved a lot of hard [...]
Tags: Australia, mushroom farm, mushroom growing
A mushroom farm opened as part of a correctional program in Wyoming Couldn’t make a go of it and had to close down after only two years in operation. The reason? The prisoners were too slow in picking and sorting the product, which consisted of portabello and crimini mushrooms. Some Guatemalans who were brought in [...]
Tags: mushroom farm, mushroom growing, prisoners, Wyoming
Holy Smokes! A Chinese farmer by the name of Li Qingli has developed a mushroom growing method that produces massive clusters of fruit bodies. The technique seems simple–give them plenty of space. It sure seems to work judging by the photos at Giant Fungi. According to that news post the clusters weight in at 10-20 [...]
Tags: China, mushroom growing
You’d think the methods and techniques for growing button mushrooms commercially would have been pretty well worked out by now. This is probably true with respect to the actual growing process, but there are no doubt still improvements to make in materials, construction, and facility design. From the Associated Press, Sprouting High-Tech Mushrooms In Maryland [...]
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According to Is there a fungus in your future, there will be a mushroom growing seminar on December 5 in Tustin, MI. Individuals or business owners who are interested in producing specialty mushrooms for use in restaurants or direct-to-consumer sales can learn about growing their crops and their operations during a Dec. 5 conference at [...]
Tags: Michigan, mushroom growing
California-based Golden Gourmet Mushrooms is an interesting company with some appealing offerings. I guess business just wasn’t good enough for the company president though. He was recently sentenced to 13 months in prison for customs violations involving the import of mushrooms from Japan. See Mushroom importer gets prison for evading customs by Anne Krueger. The [...]
Tags: crime, mushroom growing
In England, some folks are touchy about where mushroom farms should be located. At least that is the impression given in Mushroom factory plans rejected, an article appearing at the website of the BBC. Greyfriars UK wanted to build a mushroom growing shed, staff building and package treatment plant at its site in Wath, near [...]
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Small-scale mushroom farming is becoming a growing trend in developing nations. One example of a program in action is the Mushrooms in Ghana project. Nepal is the latest country where the idea has taken hold as described in Mushroom Farming Mushrooms in Jomsom. Women in Jomsom, the district headquarters of Mustang, are coming forward to [...]
Tags: mushroom growing, Nepal
Among all the web news about fungi, posts about medicinal mushrooms are notably less common than those about just plain old “mushrooms.” Here’s a collection of recent medicinal mushroom mentions found using both Google and Bing (Honestly? Bing isn’t up to speed for my purposes). A Melding of Performance Art and Mycological Culture? It’s a [...]
Tags: cancer, influenza, medicinal mushrooms, mushroom growing
A vote by members of the California-based Mushroom Council has lead to a reapportioning of the membership to reflect geographic changes in mushroom production. A brief notice, Mushroom industry approves GAP changes to marketing order by Andy Nelson, appears at The Packer. You can tell a lot about where mushroom growing occurs in the U.S [...]
Tags: Mushroom Council, mushroom growing
An article appeared earlier this month at the website of The Missourian, highlighting the efforts of local mushroom growers to make a dent in the market and their bank accounts. Mushroom Farmers Work to Expand in Missouri, by Lisa Appleton, appeared on July 12, 2009. Mostly, it’s about the efforts of some small time growers, [...]
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Cantharellus AB was a Swedish company formed to market technologies for growing golden chanterelle mushrooms (Cantharellus cibarius). I believe the idea was to offer trees inoculated with the fungus—at least that is what the company president told me on the phone many years ago. I think it was some time in the mid to late [...]
Tags: Cantharellus, Chanterelle, mushroom growing
