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“Something marvelous is happening underground, something we’re just starting to learn how to see.”

Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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Introducing The Mushroom Oracle, now in our shop! This 🍄 deck with magical art by @flower_lore guides mycelial thinking about the past, present, and future through 44 cards and an accompanying booklet representing mushrooms, the forest, mushroom people, and fungal structures—and the multitudes, layers, and connections each contains. Consult the... See more

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He spent the early 1980s traveling as an itinerant sleight-of-hand magician through Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, and eventually studying with Indigenous magical practitioners, including shamans, in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Nepal. These magicians, he found, were also healers and often the primary carers in their communities, but they occupied... See more

On Being Inside Gaia - Future Observatory Journal

To grow mushrooms on any kind of scale, growers have to develop a keen nose for material to satisfy voracious fungal appetites. Most mushroom-producing fungi thrive on the mess that humans make. Growing cash crops on waste is a kind of alchemy. Fungi transform a liability with negative worth into a product with value. A win for the waste producer,

Merlin Sheldrake • Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures

Out of this integrated approach to knowledge sprang Humboldt’s revolutionary view of life — the scientifically informed counterpart to Ada Lovelace’s famous assertion that “everything is naturally related and interconnected.”

Humboldt revolutionized the way we see the natural world. He found connections everywhere. Nothing, not even the tiniest... See more

Alexander von Humboldt • Alexander von Humboldt and the Invention of Nature: How One of the Last True Polymaths Pioneered the Cosmos of Connections

These fungi are mutualistic. They connect the trees with the soil in a market exchange of carbon and nutrients and link the roots of paper birches and Douglas firs in a busy, cooperative Internet. When the interwoven birches and firs were spiked with stable and radioactive isotopes, I could see, using mass spectrometers and scintillation counters,

Peter Wohlleben • The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature Book 1)

What we see as a mushroom is only the fruiting body, a brief visible expression of a much larger underground network called the mycelium. This mycelium forms a symbiotic relationship with trees, wrapping around their roots and trading nutrients: the fungus delivers water and minerals from the soil, while the tree shares sugars from photosynthesis.... See more

Foraging the Season: September

Pflanzenneurobiologe Anthony Trewavas von der Universität Edinburgh

Andreas Weber • Alles fühlt (German Edition)

As insurance, they extend many filaments parallel to each other, and they simply switch the connection to neighboring threads. Incidentally, that’s why when you’re out collecting ceps, boletes, or chanterelles in the fall it doesn’t matter whether you twist the mushrooms or cut them off (a perennial bone of contention among nature lovers). Any

Peter Wohlleben • The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things -— Stories from Science and Observation (The Mysteries of Nature Trilogy Book 3)