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 […]
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 […]
October 2, 2020

Fungus May Be Fall’s Hottest Fashion Trend

It may be fashion week in Paris, with showgoers in face coverings parsing runway looks from the latest designer ready-to-wear collections, but several thousand miles away […]