Posted on 12/27/2022 11:31:51 AM PST by Red Badger
For indoor gardeners who want to try something a bit more exotic, cultivating mushrooms can be rewarding and FirstBuild's Mella smart mushroom fruiting chamber promises to take some of the guesswork out of the challenge. New Atlas recently got its hands on one and we put it through its paces. Here's what we found.
For centuries, mushrooms have been a mystery and often suspected as being something supernatural. Suddenly appearing out of nowhere, they were thought to be the works of the devil, or witches, or lightning, or shooting stars.
Folklore even suggested that rings of mushrooms in a field were the gathering places of fairies. According to legend, if you stepped into one, you could end up in Fairyland, where you would be dined and entertained all night by your generous fairy hosts, only to wake up the next morning outside the ring of mushrooms to find that one evening in Fairyland equals 20 years in the mortal world.
Fairies have a warped sense of humor.
We now know that mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of fungi – that strange third kingdom of life that is neither plant nor animal. Despite their strange reputation, people have been eating them from prehistoric times, though most of the time they've been gathered in the wild by those with enough luck and knowledge to find where they grew and to tell which were edible from those that were poisonous.
The poisonous bit gave mushrooms such a bad reputation in some parts of the world that many English-speaking regions were, until recently, mycophobic and mushroom hunters had a reputation as eccentrics who flirted with death for their dinner.
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Now we know where dimmocommies come from!
The mushroom people at the farmer’s market sell something similar.
I totally endorse this. It does get to be a passion, pretty soon, but a lot less time, energy and $$.
And they’re good for you!
But they like the dark, so you can stick it under the countertop... or in the back of the closet, in your crawlspace...
Great. Where can I buy Psilocybin spores?
US$479 plus tax and shipping - hard pass that’s a lot of store bought shrooms.
Or, in a pinch, your armpit.
I suppose you could sell the excess..........................
Growing up in northern Michigan, I remember my grandfather in the spring time spending a day out in the woods hunting them then mom cooking them.........
I haven't had morel mushrooms in decades and been vowing to head north some spring to hunt some.
My old home town growing up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVxM5owPiPc
That looks like fun. I like regional festivals like that.
You don’t need that whole setup. You can buy mushroom growing kits for much less. They may not do all the same varieties that a very controlled environment would, and there’s probably some trial and error; but people grow them under the kitchen sink all the time.
https://mynorth.com/2010/05/interview-with-morel-mushroom-expert-boyne-citys-tony-williams/
Excellent!........................
True. There are a bunch of them on amazon. I have an indoor/outdoor room, that was too big and just collecting clutter on the dark side of the house. Wouldn't work for plants. Works great for mushrooms.
Folks make fun, they don't know what they're missing! Mushrooms are easy to grow and extremely nutritious!
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