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Revitalize Your Garden With Mycorrhizal Fertilizers

Mycorrhizal fungi are beneficial fungi that form symbiotic relationships with plant roots. They help plants absorb water and nutrients from the soil more efficiently. Mycorrhizal fungi can be found naturally in many soils, but their presence can be enhanced with the use of mycorrhizal fertilizers. Mycorrhizal fertilizers are products that contain these beneficial fungi. They are used to inoculate seeds or soil, promoting plant growth and health. They can be particularly beneficial for plants in poor or contaminated soils, as they help improve soil structure and nutrient availability. 

There are different types of mycorrhizal fungi, including ectomycorrhizal and endomycorrhizal fungi. The type of fungi used in the fertilizer can affect its effectiveness for different types of plants. 

[countrymadefoods]

“There are an estimated 1.5 million species of fungi, comprising yeasts and molds along with mushroom-producing macrofungi. All these organisms share certain basic traits with animals: They inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, as we do, and they are susceptible to many of the same germs. Like us, they get their energy by consuming other life forms rather than by photosynthesis... 

Mushroom-producing fungi feed animals; animals return the favor by spreading fungal spores.To ward off pathogens, fungi have developed an arsenal of antibacterial and antiviral compounds — a resource that traditional peoples harnessed in the form of mushroom teas and foodstuffs. Alexander Fleming exploited them in more modern fashion when he isolated penicillin from the Penicillium rubens mold in 1929. Fungi can also parasitize and kill insects, including those troublesome to us. For millennia, humans have exploited microfungi (molds and yeasts) to create edibles such as cheese, bread, beer and wine.

But in Western culture, Stamets observes, the powers of macrofungi have been largely ignored, an attitude he refers to as “mycophobia” or “biological racism.” Mushrooms were relegated to the Campbell’s can, or outlawed when they blew too many minds. They were discounted, devalued, shunted aside...

Stamets was obsessed with the possibilities of what he called “mycorestoration,” a nascent field encompassing his own and other researchers’ work in mycofiltration, mycoremediation, mycoforestry and mycopesticides (most of which are terms he coined). He began amassing a genetic library of hundreds of mushroom strains — gathered on hikes through the old-growth forests of the Northwest and on trips to Europe, Asia, South America and Australia — that could be used for environmental as well as medicinal healing...

Divine intervention notwithstanding, progress toward Stamets’ mycotechnological promised land has been slow. His medical research has yet to produce a marketable drug. His mycopesticides are held up in product development. His mycorenewal ideas still haven’t been applied on a large-scale basis.

 ...Stamets, as usual, is optimistic. “I know some of my hypotheses sound rather extraordinary,” he says. “I may be a little weird, but I’d rather be weird and right than normal and wrong.” 

 (via How Mushrooms Can Save the World | DiscoverMagazine.com)

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16000 Strawberries being planted with #rootgrow for a trial in Kent...