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Mycorestoration is the latest catching name in the world of mushroom growing. This refers to the intelligent integration of mold into damaged areas to restore and improve ecosystem function. The term was introduced and became popular in Paul Stamets’ 2005 book Mycelium Running: How mushrooms can help save the earth, as well as mycofiltration, mycoforestry, mycoremediation and mycopesticides.

But these myconcepts ideas are not all new. In 1981 Hellmut Steineck published Pilze im Garten, later published in English as Mushrooms in the Garden 1984, which explained how to combine edible and interesting mushrooms in home gardens.

Fungus has great

Ability to clean chemicals or germs and as bio-control agents to reduce weeds and pests or plant and animal diseases. Mycorrhizal fungi improve plant growth and energy and inoculation methods with mycorrhizal fungi are now widely used in agriculture and silviculture.

Some bio-cultural bio control applications were developed in BC. Some fun dip ago the inoculum of Chondrostereum purpureum was available to inject and kill fallen tree stumps preventing the regeneration of shoots from removed alder, poplar or maple trees.

The ability of oyster mushrooms to catch and eat small worms that can be used to regenerate agricultural nematode-infested soil. Hypholoma fasciculare was tested in BC to limit the spread of infection from Armillaria root rot (Honey mushroom) in the wild. https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/rsi/research/cextnotes/extnot33.pdf.

Another popular

Idea is to use mushrooms to digest and break down hydrocarbons from contaminated petrochemical soils, or solvents after they have been used to soak up oil spills. Some strong-growing saprobic fungi such as the Oyster Pleurotus mushroom have been shown in experiments to happily digest hydrocarbons which they lower into harmless products. Obviously the goal here is not to produce mushrooms for food, but to eliminate petrochemical pollution. Non-toxic hydrocarbon residues may remain.

Some fungi promise

to help repair the damage done by man to our environment, but there are challenges in elevating such systems to a more geographical level and successfully integrating them into other ecosystems we want to establish in damaged areas. We want to avoid the kind of unintended consequences that seem to harm many human efforts to exploit the environment. Some fungi can behave like diseases or weeds and introducing novel fungi in complex areas can create completely new problems. The concept of Mycorestoration sounds promising but the practical application in large areas remains untested.

Various fungi

can be planted to meet many needs. Home gardening is an exciting activity that gives mushroom lovers a deeper understanding of how fungi grow when they produce fresh mushroom plants for food or medicine. The selection of edible mushrooms on the market has grown significantly in the last few decades, with some being grown on previously discarded items such as agricultural or food processing products.

Mushrooms are the

newest food grown by humans in our history. Human and animal fun dip began 12 to 13 thousand years ago. Archaeological history shows that about ten thousand years ago the Neolithic transformation of pastoral and agricultural societies began as people settled to raise animals such as livestock and plant crops. Mold begins to emerge in archeological history a few thousand years ago as remnants of fermented grains in the grains of a ship. One Natufian site with traces of brewing evidence is dated 13,000 years ago. https://www.history.com/news/oldest-beer-ancient-brewery-invention.