The Corn Smut Project
About Corn Smut Known in Mexico as huitlacoche (weet-luh-KOH-chay), this fungus which grows on corn is a considered a delicacy and is sold fresh, canned or dried. The flavor is...
Category: Mushroom Cultivation
If you build it they will Come
The title of this article is a slightly modified version of the original line spoken by Kevin Costner in the 1989 movie Field of Dreams, “If you build it, he...
2025 Summer Wrapup
When it comes to our home gardening, the summer of 2025 will go down as a great year for growing veggies and producing cultivated mushrooms. Over the last few years,...
Winterizing Gardens While Encourage Mushroom Growth
Every fall Sandy and I start removing vegetable plants from our raised garden beds that have run their course or have been damaged by cold temperatures. We’ve also encountered years...
Many Mushroom Experiments
Over the last several years I may have gone a little overboard with inoculating every log Sandy and I found with some species of mushroom. The list of species included...
Mushrooms can do strange things
This is an interesting time within our mushroom hunting season. Mushrooms like winter chanterelles, bellybutton hedgehogs, and verpas are pretty much finished while morels, spring boletes and coral mushrooms are...
