by Aly Lewis It’s a blue whale…it’s the Great Barrier Reef…it’s a giant aspen grove! Guess again, the world’s largest living organism is actually a fungus. Armillaria ostoyae, to be precise. Commonly known as the honey mushroom, this giant fungus feeds off of the earth and tree roots in the Malheur National Forest in eastern [...]
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Fantastic Mr. Fungus
Posted in Christian/Environmental Philosophy, Food & Health, Gardening/Plants, Sustainable Eating, tagged income generation, microcredit, microfinance, microloans, mushroom module, mushrooms, nutrition, self-sufficiency, sustainable development on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »