Grow your own mushroom adventure.
Free courses and stories about fungi — how mushrooms live, and how to grow tasty ones yourself with a real grow kit. For explorers aged 6–14, plus a pro track for grown-ups.
Fun, easy-to-read stories about fungi and nature — how mushrooms grow, what they do for the forest, and tips for your own grow kit. Always free.
Start reading →Learn by doing: junior courses for ages 6–9, explorer courses for ages 10–14 — and a pro track for grown-ups who dream of a real mushroom growery.
See the courses →Explore the different grow kits in our shop and learn about fungi with our free courses. The supplied instructions explain how to care for your particular kit. Ask a grown-up to help with orders.
Grow kits →Fresh from the Journal
All stories →A quick wipe or brief rinse won't ruin mushrooms. The real issue isn't contact with water—it's storing them wet for days. Here's the simple, safe way to clean and cook them.
The thin white enoki you see in the supermarket looks nothing like its wild cousin — because it is not grown the same way. The same species, grown in darkness, stretches its stems to find the light. Here is how one fungus creates two completely different looks.
A huge amount of carbon — the gas that traps heat in our atmosphere — gets buried deep in soil every year, and fungi are the ones doing the burying. A 2023 study found that mycorrhizal fungi store about 13 billion tonnes of CO2 a year underground, roughly a third of all the carbon we release by burning fossil fuels.
Learn to grow like a professional.
A sober, hands-on track for adults: growing rooms, sterile technique, substrates and climate control — from your first harvest at home to a working growery, and maybe a business.