Seasonal wild-garlic – a forager’s delight in Göttingen spring time
Outdoors in Göttingen, Germany, is absolutely beautiful, especially in spring. Whether you turn your head toward the forest patch in the south city, the Kiessee, or the Leine river, all of which lie near my latest flat share, the scenery is stunning. Almost two years in this city is too long not to have experienced…
Domesticating shroom goodness from the wild – a mushroom’s journey from the forest to the market!
After my life got entangled with the world of fungi, I gradually started to view these intricate organisms in a very different light. Fungi create an interesting bond between LIFE and DEATH. It almost feels spiritual! But the embodied truth here is unequivocal. As glorious as life may be, without these decisive links in nature, the…
There are beautiful bright light bulbs glistening in my chili pepper tree
Chili pepper has always been either red or green coloured for me until very recently. Never have I ever thought I would be so mesmerized by a purple-colored chili pepper. This is a very bright glowing purple color that I’m talking about, a kind of purple that would make you want to write a blog…
Who built this nest? A glance at a weird mushroom-Bird’s Nest Fungi
Here is another mushroom story! Interestingly enough, this one is about a rather peculiar kind of mushroom; the “Bird’s nest fungus”. I had already heard of this mushroom (or read about it somewhere) by the time I was learning different forms of mushrooms for my “Microbial Life” course practicals in the second year at university.…
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