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Fungi in the City and on the Farm
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Small Farms Radio covers the urban mushroom life cycle and explores indoor mushroom production. How does a mushroom move through the city? What does it take to grow mushrooms indoors? These questions were tackled on two recent episodes of the Small Farms Radio podcast as our agroforestry and mushroom specialist Connor Youngerman talked with mushroom…
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Building an Alternative Supply Chain for Shiitake Mushroom Growers
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The Logs to NYC project connects city-based mushroom growers with rural landowners and surplus lumber hoping to blaze a trail to lower-carbon living. On a recent sunny Saturday afternoon, power tools whirred and wood shavings flew outside the Hudson River Maritime Museum in Kingston, New York. In the shadow of Mathilda, a hefty 19th-century tugboat propped…
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Shiitake Mushroom Logs Headed to NYC via the Schooner Apollonia Sailboat
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For thousands of years, mushrooms have been grown on hardwood logs from sustainably managed forest lands. Their origins trace to parts of China, Korea, and Japan. Shiitake cultivation on logs is one of the oldest known forms of agriculture. Today, log cultivation is increasingly rare, replaced by technology and now many shiitake in the US…








