October 19, 2023

New York Fungus Festival: the Wild and Wonderful World of Mushrooms

On a temperate fall afternoon, Vito Vacirca sported a black Borsalino fedora lined with dried turkey-tail mushrooms and violet-tinted sunglasses, a second pair of shades dangling […]
April 15, 2021

A Cemetery’s Big Secret: Lots of Weird Mushrooms

Sigrid Jakob showed up to Green-Wood Cemetery hot on the heels of a recent victory: The deer dung she was cultivating in her apartment had just […]
April 7, 2021

What’s Up With Those Weird-Looking Mushrooms?

You may not expect to see them in your yard, but that doesn’t mean you’ve got trouble. The opposite, in fact. They appear spontaneously, or so […]
February 7, 2021

Mushroom Grow Kits: Yes, They Work

Yellow oyster mushrooms at Smallhold, an indoor farm in Brooklyn that sells at-home grow kits.Credit…Chris Maggio for The New York Times Skip to contentSkip to site […]
July 1, 2016

Vows: He Said No. Then She Did. But Proposal No. 3 Was the Charm

Vows By VINCENT M. MALLOZZI When Adrianne Mathiowetz proposed to Janaka Stucky in September 2011, he balked, so she bolted. “I worshiped him and he rejected […]