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December 5, 2024
The Incredible Life Beneath Our Feet
By Sarah Kyker, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate
World Soil Day is held annually on December 5th as a way to foster awareness for soil conservation. This year’s theme for World Soil Day is “Caring for Soils: Measure,... more
September 13, 2024
Edible Mushrooms and Their Poisonous Look-alikes
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff, MS, Research Specialist
If you are new to identifying mushrooms, I recommend that you read my earlier article, How to identify mushrooms and other fungi, for context and terminology before reading on. Mushroom... more
September 6, 2024
Common Lawn Mushrooms and What To Do About Them
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff, MS, Research Specialist
As a scientist at HF&G, I often hear questions like, “How can I get rid of mushrooms in my yard?” or “Is it safe to have mushrooms in my lawn?”.... more
October 13, 2023
Enlisting Fungi to Help Bring Trees Back to Our Cities
Mushroom Month might be over, but we aren’t done celebrating mushrooms just yet because October 15th is National Mushroom Day! If you’ve been keeping up with our blog posts for... more
September 29, 2023
3 Mushroom-Based Recipes to Celebrate the End of Mushroom Month
By Mary Pitts, MS, Research Specialist
We have arrived at the final blog post for September’s national mushroom month. We hope you enjoyed reading about our work on soil, fungi, and identifying mushrooms. This week we... more
September 22, 2023
Fungi: More than Just Mushrooms
By Sarah Kyker, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate
As a soil scientist, I love seeing mushrooms pop up aboveground. It’s always exciting to see the variety of mushrooms that fruit at different times of the year. But in... more
September 15, 2023
Restoring Wildflowers to the Forests: Insights from a Soil Fungi Experiment
I’d found myself kneeling in the leaf litter, surrounded by forest, my fingers carefully arranging a leaflet of the small plant before me, my other hand adjusting a ruler to... more
September 8, 2023
How to Identify Mushrooms and Other Fungi
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff, MS, Research Specialist
Let's distinguish what makes a mushroom different from other fungi, and learn to identify them. more
September 1, 2023
Appreciate the Life Beneath Your Feet This Fall: National Mushroom Month
By David J. Burke, PhD, Vice President for Science and Conservation
If you’ve had a chance to spend time outdoors this week, you can feel late summer sliding into northern Ohio. The air feels a bit heavier, and a bit cooler... more
September 30, 2022
Trivia Answers and Farewell to Mushroom Month
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff, MS, Research Specialist
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff September is ending and fall is in full swing. As the leaves on the trees start to change and the wind turns chilly, we bid farewell to... more
September 23, 2022
Inside a Scientific Conference: Mycological Society of America
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff, MS, Research Specialist
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff Every year in July the mycologists of America converge for a week of academic talks, scientific posters, riveting discussions about fungal biology, and professional networking. This year,... more
September 15, 2022
For the Love of Fungi: an ode to the amateur mycologist
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff, MS, Research Specialist
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff Mycology, or the study of fungi, is a small but growing field. For many of us career mycologists this has been a curious but fantastic trend to... more
September 2, 2022
Mushroom Month Trivia
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff, MS, Research Specialist
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff September is one of our favorite months in the Holden Forests & Gardens Soil Ecology lab. Why? Because it is National Mushroom Month. Many people celebrate National... more
January 14, 2022
Mushroom Identification: Results from the Holden Forests & Gardens Mushroom Month Foray!
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff, MS, Research Specialist
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff Relative to plants and animals, identifying fungi presents unique challenges. First, the kingdom fungi is extremely species rich. While nearly 100,000 species of fungi have been discovered... more
October 1, 2021
Beech Leaf Disease and Forest Fungi: Healthy trees support healthy fungal communities
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff, MS, Research Specialist
Arboreta play an active role in studying a wide range of tree diseases and the pathogens and parasites that cause them. Holden is no exception. Work from our arboretum and... more
September 24, 2021
Celebrating National Mushroom Month with a Book Review and a Recipe too!
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff, Jessica Miller, Sarah Kyker, and David Burke
As September winds down, we are taking one more week to celebrate fungi during National Mushroom Month! Fungi are the main recyclers of dead plant material in the forest and... more
September 17, 2021
National Mushroom Month: Sharing Some Science & a Recipe, Too!
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff, MS, Graduate Student, Sarah Kyker, Postdoctoral Research Associate, and David Burke, VP, Science & Conservation
Mycorrhizal at HF&G: We continue to celebrate September as National Mushroom Month at HF&G! Today we want to tell you about our favorite fungal group: mycorrhizal fungi! While we certainly... more
September 10, 2021
Soil, Mushrooms & a Recipe, Too!
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff, MS, Research Specialist
by: Claudia Bashian-Victoroff, Sarah Kyker, and David Burke We continue to celebrate September: National Mushroom Month. Mushrooms are amazing (and delicious) and definitely deserve a month of focus and celebration.... more
September 3, 2021
A Book About Mushrooms & a Recipe
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff, MS, Research Specialist
With summer turning into autumn, September is a great time of year to see mushrooms in the forest. Mushrooms are a type of sporocarp, or the fruiting body of fungi,... more
September 1, 2021
September is National Mushroom Month
By Sabrina Kozsey, Gardener
Happy National Mushroom Month! September is one of our favorite months in the Holden Forests and Gardens. Why? Because it is National Mushroom Month. Many people celebrate National Mushroom Month... more
September 18, 2020
National Mushroom Month Continues – Lessons in Fungal Ecology and Conservation
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff, MS, Research Specialist
My name is Claudia and I’m the newest member of the team here at the Long Science Center at Holden Arboretum. I’m a recent graduate of the State University of... more
September 4, 2020
Mushrooms: the hardest working recyclers in the forest
By Sarah Kyker, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate
September is one of our favorite months in the Holden Forests and Gardens Soil Ecology lab. Why? Because it is National Mushroom Month. Many people celebrate National Mushroom Month by... more
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