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  • Image: Deborah M. Kōdō

    Steaming hot and pasteurized straw

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  • Paddestoelen Road-Trip

    Our adventures gathering knowledge about growing our own mushrooms

    In order to prepare for the upcoming exhibition at Mediamatic, Paddestoelen Paradijs, we ventured south to the towns of Hedel and Rossum to find out everything we could about growing our own...

  • Magic Mushroom Forum

    Discuss the growing process, weird things you might encounter, success stories and maybe even your trip experience

    We organise Magic Mushroom workshops. We think it's nice and reassuring to talk to the other participants about the growing process and problems you might encounter. You can start a new topic and...

  • Mycelium Theorists/Scientists

    Scientists, theorists and university work groups that are doing research into mushrooms and mycelium and anything related. No lonely links please - add a little blurb about the research when you add...

  • Mushroom Madness

    The powerful presence of mushrooms has spread to the corners of the earth. These are a selection of some of the stranger things mushrooms have influenced.

  • Mycelium and Mushroom Manufacturers

    Information and websites about mushroom companies and growers that can supply us with products.

  • Clean Room

    Laboratory Installation

    In this controlled sterile environment we inoculate substrate with mushroom spores and experiment with all things fungal.

  • Fungi & Fermentation Knowledge

    Everything you want to know about species, substrates, applications and more.

    Discover more about the building blocks of bio-design, fermented foods and the wonders of the micro-cosmos! You can find all the information here.

  • Some terms explained

    Mushroom, mycelium, spores, fungi

    A simple introduction and by no means comprehensive

  • Mushroom Events

    Workshops, lectures, excursions

  • Mushrooms DIY

    Free mushroom cultivation manuals

    A compendium of manuals, articles and printed material on mushroom cultivation techniques

  • Psilocin and psilocybin

    The two most important alkaloids in psychedelic mushrooms are psilocybin and psilocine. Although they are currently not being prescribed for any medical conditions, research and case reports have...

  • Paddestoelen Paradijs in de media

    Artikelen over het Paddestoelen Paradijs

    Online 'Nederlandse paddestoelen zijn niet eng' (08-10-2011) Video van paddestoelen excursie op Radio Nederland Wereldomroep 'Muur met tomatenpuree op Vijzelstraat' (03-11-2011) De Echo 'Mushrooms...

  • Bodies of Change Installation Process

    Building the installation

    This is the first in a series of articles tracking the construction process and growth of the Bodies of Change installation.

  • History of the Magic Mushroom

    How far the consumption of Magic Mushrooms (mushrooms containing the psychoactive substance psilocybin and psilocin) goes back in time is difficult to say. But the fore fathers of the Azteks and...
  • 1 Jan 2003

    Fungi remove asbestos

    A research team from the University of Turin has found a number of fungi that can help clean up soil that is contaminated with asbestos. They think it is possible to inject the genes responsible for...
  • project: Antal Ruhl

    Mold Fight

    A battle to the death of mold vs. mold

    Can you beat the slime mold?

  • Mycelium Videos

    Lectures and fiction

    1. TED talk by Paul Stamets on 6 ways that mushrooms can save the world. This is already on the Mediamatic site here . 2. What's Mycelium? Mycelium (plural mycelia) is the vegetative part of a...

  • Growing the first panels

    The success and strife of convincing mushrooms to grow on waste.
  • book: Terence McKenna 1 Jan 1992

    Food of the Gods

    The search for the original tree of knowledge

    For the first time in trade paperback, the critically acclaimed counterculture manifesto by the wildly popular McKenna. This book tells you about the history of drugs in the East and West; from the...
  • Mediamatic Bank at Duintjer CS Maurizio Montalti 1 Jan 2011

    The Ephemeral Icon

    Infusing life to trigger a process of final dissolution

    A design-research project looking at the study and the application of a fungus, Phanerochaete chrysosporium, to synthetic, toxic materials: Plastics.

  • Pleurotus ostreatus

    Oyster mushroom - Oesterzwam

    First cultivated in Germany as a subsistence measure during World War I, the oyster mushroom, named for the cap's resemblance to the sea creature, is now grown commercially around the world for food.

  • Artworks in the Paddestoelen Paradijs exhibition

    September 2011 - July 2012

  • From our Faraway Friend Wendy Monroe

    Those Oesterzwam bags

    Unknown here in the States

    At a presentation given by Jim Wheeler, founder of the Sonoma County Mycological Association ( of Northern California )

  • The mushroom of immortality!

    super healthy mushroom

created Deborah M. Kōdō

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