Wild Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms

31/07/2023

Our forest never disappoints. Found some goodies this afternoon. 🍄🍄🍄

21/10/2021

Slippery Jack and Slippery Jill. Do you know which one is which?

21/10/2021

Beautiful Blewit blew me away :)

21/10/2021

Recent foraging... anyone else finding anything?

03/02/2020

“There is a magical world at your feet when you walk in a wet forest!”

18/12/2019

If you're looking for reasons to eat more mushrooms, read on.

Two new relevant studies were published in the scientific literature this past year, each one highlighting the importance of mushrooms in the human diet.

1. Mushroom consumption & mild cognitive impairment

As part of a recent study design, and to determine any association between mushroom consumption and mild cognitive impairment, researchers in Singapore analyzed diet and lifestyle factors of 663 participants over the age of 60.

After controlling for factors including age, education, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activities, meat consumption, and vegetable consumption, participants who consumed greater than 2 portions of mushrooms per week had lower odds of having mild cognitive impairment compared to participants who consumed mushrooms less than once per week.

Findings were similar in males and females, and results were published in the Journal Of Alzheimer's Disease. Researchers concluded: "Mushroom consumption could be a potential preventive measure to slow cognitive decline and neurodegeneration in aging." (Source: https://rb.gy/4of0hz)

2. Mushroom consumption & prostate cancer

A brand new study published in the International Journal Of Cancer looked at the association between mushroom consumption and prostate cancer in over 36,000 Japanese men between the ages of 40 and 79.

This was the first long-term cohort study ever published on the subject. (A cohort study follows participants over time to determine the incidence of, or mortality from, a disease or other outcome.)

Results indicated that higher mushroom consumption in men over the age of 50 was related to a lower risk of incident prostate cancer. Additionally, researchers found a beneficial effect of mushroom consumption on the prevention of prostate cancer regardless of clinical stage of tumor development (localized or advanced and metastatic).

Researchers in this study concluded that "habitual mushroom intake might help to reduce prostate cancer risk." (Source: https://rb.gy/jrn1xg)

So... if you needed yet another reason to eat more mushrooms, perhaps these two studies will influence your decision in a positive manner!

01/12/2019

San Francisco-based startup MycoWorks is convinced fungus is the building material of the future.

28/11/2019

How beautiful!

this poem was written by neil gaiman and read by amanda palmer for maria popova's “The Universe In Verse” event in 2017 (you can read about that here: https:...

11/11/2019

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/05/radically-diverse-australian-fungi-photographed-by-steve-axford/

Photographer Steve Axford (previously) continues his quest to document some of the world's most obscure fungi found in locations around Australia. Axford lives and works in the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales in Australia where he often has to travel no further than his own back yard to make