March 20, 2010 5:44 pm
This year, COMA‘s Mushroom University is designed to help students see details of fungi that would be easy to overlook in the field. While our focus is on non-gilled basidiomycetes – chanterelles, jelly fungi, coral fungi, toothed fungi and gasteromycetes – many of the lessons we are learning apply to all kinds of mushrooms.
Most of us will be in the field somewhere, collecting and observing members of the fungi family. We will have two questions about everything we find:
What is this mushroom? and Can I eat it? (more…)
March 14, 2010 7:55 am
I am not immune from falling into the trap that humans have some kind of superiority as a species. We’ve spent tens of thousands of years manipulating and cultivating other species. Just when I thought we’d succeeded in driving certain species of plants to extinction, the plants have written their own chapter in this story.
Without any corporate investment, amaranth has become resistant to RoundUp. Take that – Monsanto.
Back to humans, Michael Pollan believes that the Center for Food Safety has the necessary scientific evidence that will help farmers and the rest of us fight back against Monsanto. Our elected officials will not do it for us, so we’ll have to do it ourselves.
Shakespeare had it right. What fools we mortals be.
March 7, 2010 7:01 am
I’m completing our CSA farm application and finalizing the COMA walk schedule for this season.
While everyone else is focused on the Oscars, I’m watching a documentary that I doubt would be nominated, not because of the production values, but because of the content.
What’s wrong with GMO’s – genetically modified organisms? Decide for yourself. This film is free online: The World According to Monsanto. (more…)