Is there a fungus among us? If you want to improve your soil while growing some tasty mushrooms, perhaps there should be!

Mushrooms, valued for flavor and nutrients, can synthesize vitamin D with sunlight exposure. Specific mushrooms under UV light produce vitamin D. Commercial settings optimize vitamin D synthesis. A ...

Paul Stamets can sell you a ready-made kit that will produce hundreds of gourmet mushrooms in your home or yard. You do little more than add water. Or he can supply all the equipment, growing media ...

A mushroom is a mushroom is a mushroom; right? Not exactly. Sure they're all fungi, but not all mushrooms are created equal. Spotting fresh shiitake (she-TAH-key) mushrooms at my local farmers market ...

It’s 8 a.m. on a weekday and Richard O’Steen is in his usual spot, doing his usual thing. Just inside the east entrance of the UC Santa Barbara Library, hands full of mushrooms, he is engrossed in an ...