by Steven Long | May 29, 2022 | Chemicals, Mushrooms
A couple of summers ago, I chanced upon a fantastic mushroom: Amanita muscaria. It was part of a colony that sprouted near the edge of a field. Beautiful and toxic, the mushrooms were busy doing what all fungi do: decomposing organic matter. Fungi are so adept at...
by Steven Long | May 3, 2021 | Chemicals, Environment, Health, Mushrooms
It’s been described as a slow-moving disaster. That’s a tragically beautiful way to describe an impending catastrophe from the Clean Water Act of 1972. The intent behind the act was to clean up US waterways. Part of that entailed building sewage treatment plants,...
