Loving Fungi
Growing mushrooms made easy
We started by foraging in the coastal woods of Downeast Maine- where fog horns and clanging buoys can be heard from the chanterelle groves and hemlock reishi stands, and chaga tea with maple syrup is a winter staple.
Mushroom cultivation was the next logical step for us and we want it to be for you too...
Discover the mycological world as we did. North Spore is your access to the world of fungi. How will you choose to Spread the Spore?
The Black Trumpet Blog
North Spore Goes South
... to South America that is. For the past several weeks I have been down in Ecuador helping set up a spawn lab for the Amazon Mycorenewal Project (AMP). This non-profit has set down roots in Lago Agrio, Ecuador in order to use mushrooms to bioremediate the large amount of petroleum polution...
What's Wild, Yellow, and Smells of Apricots?
Behold the chanterelle, golden and elegant. A mysterious fungus that sends mushroom hunters and slugs alike on a hunt through the duff of oak groves and hemlock stands, fending off mosquitos that hang and whine in the muggy July air. Culinarily, there is nothing quite like a freshly picked golden...
Maine's Other Lobster
2016 has been a doozy of a mushroom foraging season.. Drought conditions have made for some pretty low-key mushrooming expeditions this summer. A handful of chanterelles here, a dry chicken of the woods there; mostly just the dried remains of last years flushes. For most mushroom species the summer of...