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In addition to providing an array of valuable mushroom products, Fungi Perfecti also devotes considerable energy and resources to developing myco-technologies to benefit people and planet. As part of his lifelong work in generating and spreading ideas, Paul Stamets regularly...
3D model of a 1,4 β-glucan. Image courtesy of Wikipedia. Q: Why don’t you list beta-glucan content on your products? A: Because we want to be accurate. The testing methods used to determine beta-glucan content are highly inaccurate. Over the years,...
From Loni, FP Customer Service Representative. Oyster mushrooms are common and abundant in nature as well as here at the FP farm. One creative way to use Oysters and other mushrooms is by crisping them up in the oven. You can store...
From Katrina, FP Customer Service Representative. Approximately 1 dozen corn tortillas (how many you need depends on how thick you stuff them) ⅔ lb of any organic ground meat (beef, turkey or 2 cups of nuts such as walnuts soaked...
From Loni, FP Customer Service Representative. Like our ancestors, I find drying to be the best method for preserving mushrooms. However, I find that cooking them before drying makes for a delicious quick snack. Thinly slice Chanterelles and marinate over...
From Katie, General Manger, Life Box™ / Planted Planet Productions. 12 eggs, well beaten 9 slices white or wheat* bread, crusts removed, cut into ½" squares 6 tbsp butter (4 tbsp cut into cubes, and 2 reserved for cooking mushrooms) 3...
An unavoidable fact that affects all life on this planet—including humans and fungi—is that we age. When we are young, the number of downstream cell divisions is vast, but incrementally declines as we grow older. Recently, cell division limiting factors...
Thank you for visiting fungi.com, and for your interest in the BP oil spill disaster and the potential for mycoremediation. We are being inundated with requests and cannot individually address all of the questions we have received. We are in...
My current priority is culturing the fungal residents in old growth forests. One mushroom species in particular beckons me: Agarikon, Fomitopsis officinalis. This mushroom has been used medicinally for thousands of years, and known for centuries as “elixirium ad longam...
