Types Of Truffles

Hisand 'Blueberry Sundae', a purple-blue variety, are easier to find.Photographs: Thumbnail Red Shiso Perilla - Copyright ©Wind; Laird Liam photo used with permission Copyright ©Solaris Farms; Lobelia cardinalis 'Black Truffle' photo used with permission...

Mushrooms are viable crops for small farmers, both from the standpoint of collecting wild mushrooms and also from the cultivation. A bit later, I learned about how one of the fungi that grew on dead trees was also safe to eat, which was very much like...

Very good Parmesan is crucial to the recipe. The name refers to their resemblance to eggs when they are very small. Photo by Judith Hausman The mushroom salad I had in Italy featured delicious, prized mushrooms called ovoli (Amanita caesarea), or Caesar's...

Because of their preference for growing in moist, but not wet areas, morel mushrooms grow predominantly in the wild in shaded areas of south facing slopes. However, confusion is easily eliminated.

The spores are then dispersed in droppings.Truffle-like ascomas form under trees such as sheoaks & are dispersed by marsupials. LariAnn points out that thesite has a feature that identifies general mycorrhiza types by plant names (down the bottom of the...

Instructions for making herbed vinegars and oils, along with pickles, preserves and sauces round out the offerings.Detailed instructions for the crafty gardener include fresh herbal wreaths, old-fashioned tussie-mussies, potpourri, sachets and party favors.For...

The ramp is a wild leek, smelling strongly of garlic, and people either love 'em or hate 'em. Food TV Network chefs Bobby Flay, Emeril Lagasse and Mario Batali have all aired shows featuring ramp recipes.http://www.starchefs.com/features/ramps/html/index.shtmlIf...

This process -- karyogamy -- combines and mixes up the DNA from the two individuals. Once the spores disperse they will germinate and form a new mycelium. The main body of a fungi is made up of a network of thread-like structures called hyphae.

Herbal Coffee: Give the coffee lover in your life an extra-special cuppa by mixing in ground herbs with coffee grounds (about 1 tablespoon herbs per cup of coffee grounds). Whatever you do, have fun with the preparation and enjoy giving a gift of the...

Laws vary by state and you don't want to sink money into a project and have to change it due to local laws. “And that was the start of Fiore di Capra, Inc.” The dairy drums up a lot of business from people who are allergic to cow's milk and seek out...

If you come across any corn smut on your homegrown corn, pick it when it starts to soften, but before the skin opens and the spores emerge. In fact, many farmers south of the border intentionally inoculate their corn fields with corn smut spores because...

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Properly tended cinnamon trees are a long-lived resource and a good source of income for their growers, although stripping and drying the bark is labor-intensive.Cinnamons can be purchased in several forms.

“Hosting a farm stay is not hard as long as you like people and are passionate enough about your farming to share a bit of what you do,” Jones says. They have visitors from across the country, but are particularly a destination for folks on the West...

First things first: are they sugar plums, sugar-plums or sugarplums? Let's unravel the confusion surrounding this historical sweet, and try to discover the true sugarplum, both in history and today .

Understanding Commercial Mushroom Varieties There are two main types of mushrooms: mycelial and mycorrhizzal. Farmers must use their brains to figure out clever solutions that make use of what they have at hand, rather than simply picking procedures out...

Some members have a lot of experience in the kitchen, and others are new to cooking.” Page 1 | 2 Tags Jodi Helmer A kitchen focused on raw foods? Community kitchens are social events.” As one of the larger community kitchens in Seattle, the Wallingford...

Thunder caused truffles to grow, erupting from the ground. The plants were also seen as living links to the gods. Zeus, the head chief of the gods, had of course adopted the oak. It is no wonder, since today we still turn to plants for food, shelter,...

Now that you know this, you may never look at a pile of rotting leaves quite the same again. The leaves (and wood chips and coffee grounds) first attract soil organisms with teeth or teeth-like equipment—the chompers, shredders, slicers and tearers.