My late Uncle Pepe was an avid mushroom hunter, rising early on late-summer Saturdays, field guide in hand, to head to a local New York City park for his weekly forage. Upon his return, my Aunt Jenny ...

HAVE you seen the Mushroom Man? No? Well, have you looked in the Secret Garden? It’s a real place, you know, a half-hidden community garden at the corner of Linden Street and Broadway, in Bushwick, ...

My late Uncle Pepe was an avid mushroom hunter, rising early on late-summer Saturdays, field guide in hand, to head to a local New York City park for his weekly forage. Upon his return, my Aunt Jenny ...

During the pandemic, many people have turned to home gardening to grow their own food. One company said sales of introductory mushroom-growing supplies had risen by 400% over the past year. Growing ...

A company that makes growing substrates and other supplies for mushroom farms nationwide has seen demand, well, mushroom since it started in 2014. Now Maine Cap ‘N Stem Mushroom Co. is planning to ...

It’s a cold November day, but the 3,000 logs stacked inside Nicola Macpherson’s greenhouse are warm and dry. Plastic mesh is draped to form a roof above them, shielding the space from sunlight.

On Friday Feb. 25 the University of Maine Department of Agriculture hosted a webinar titled “Spring Has Spawned: Getting Your Garden Ready for Mushroom Cultivation” on Zoom. Pamela Hargest, a ...