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    Champignons in my kitchen :)

    Indoor cultivated Agaricus bisporus
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  • Mycelium insulation panels

    First experiments

    This mycelium panel was made out of wheat husks and Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) as biological binding agent, grown for three weeks at 25ºC and 85% of relative humidity.

  • Agrocybe aegerita

    Black Poplar / Populierleemhoed

    This Mushroom is originally from Southern Europe, where it's called 'Pioppino'. In nature this mushroom grows on tree stems, stumps and trunks of Poplar trees and sometimes on Willows.

  • Mushrooms DIY

    Free mushroom cultivation manuals

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

  • Urban Farming

    Research on urban farming practices

    The line between the city and the country is becoming blurred and new practices are cropping up daily which bring the farm to the urban environment. We are looking into urban farming practices and...

  • Mushroom Dinner

    An experimental evening to taste the flavors of delicious dutch mushrooms....

    Here some pictures and a video documenting a lovely dinner where mushrooms took different forms and taste. Our biggest pride is certainly the home-made mushroom pasta. Not only the pasta slice ended...

  • Mensen en hun paddestoel

  • One more reason to grow your own fish

    Mekong-catfish toxic and hazardous

    Belgian newspaper De Morgen wrote an article about the panga fillet you can find so cheap in the supermarket's freezer. Not a very appealing bite after you read this: Pangasius: de waarheid over de...
  • book: Mark Janssen 1 Jan 2011

    Handboek Paddestoelen

    Zoeken & bereiden voor gevorderden

    Dit boek is een vervolg op het 'Handboek Paddestoelen: Zoeken & bereiden'. Janssen vertelt in dit boek welke paddestoelen giftig zijn, hoe ze smaken en hoe je ze het lekkerst kunt verwerken in een...

  • New baby fish at the Fabriek

    Clarias gariepinus | African sharptooth catfish

    After the deaths of around 400 of our fish due to a power failure, we were sadly left with two empty systems. Time to take action, before the bacteria in the systems would die as well.

  • Ecobulevard

    Fake tree in Vallecas, Madrid.

    Re-thinking a 467.500 m3 urban space.

  • Psilocybe cubensis

    The magic mushroom

    Psilocybe cubensis is a species of psychedelic mushroom whose principal active compounds are psilocybin and psilocin . Commonly called shrooms, magic mushrooms, golden tops, cubes, or gold caps, it...
  • Yann Seznec, Patrick Hickey 1 Jan 2010

    The Secret Sounds of Spores

    Installation

    Hidden under every mushroom, invisible to the naked eye, thousands of spores fall and are blown away by the tiniest current of wind. Shining a laser underneath a protected mushroom makes these spores...

  • Trametes versicolor

    Turkey tail / Elfenbankje

    Dry and leathery to the touch, the turkey tail is too tough to eat (although slugs and squirrels happily feast on the colorful mushroom). It enjoys the company of dead or dying trees, which it helps...
  • book: Mark Janssen 1 Jan 2010

    Handboek Paddestoelen

    Zoeken & bereiden

    In het boek staan 40 wilde eetbare paddestoelen. Het beschrijft de kenmerken van deze paddestoelen in details: hoe, waar en wanneer te zoeken, hoe giftige paddestoelen te herkennen, hoe...

  • Clean Room

    Laboratory Installation

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

    Polydome is a revolutionary approach to greenhouse agriculture that offers the possibility of commercial scale, net-zero-impact food production.

  • Iron Deficiency

    Deep red water, but healthy plants.

  • What is this?

    Mysterious symptoms on leaves

    Last sunday we saw mysterious symptoms on some of the plants. The leaves look like they miss all their chlorophyl, but the fibers are still there.

  • Structuring processes

    Backing up our assumptions

    Our oldest system has been running for one and a half years now and we've seen happening a lot to it in this time. Ebs and flows, births and deaths, seeds and fruits. To have this experience is nice

  • Robbert

  • Margarita and the Mycelium Factory

    My visit to the Ecovative Design headquarters

    Finding myself on the other side of the ocean, I went to visit Ecovative Design, a sustainable materials company in upstate New York. Ecovative is the birth place of the myco-material that sparked...

  • swpss

    Sweet Passion

    I'm an infiltrate, nobody knows that I'm here, but you can uncover me if you're insistent enough. Tips soon.

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