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Podcast: summer fungi walk
Earlier this week I went for a short walk around part of the Sussex Weald to see if any mushrooms had popped up. Podcast: summer fungi walk Here’s a repost of my fungi walk podcast I produced this week! Search for Unlocking Landscapes on all the non-BBC podcast platforms. Also here on YouTube: Enjoy! Read more
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Fungus spore cloud – video
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 The most amazing thing, though maybe not for my lungs. On Wednesday evening (9/7/25) I went for a walk at my closest woodland Narnia. It was evening, the sun was slanting through the trees. It was beautiful. I approached a fallen beech tree that I have been passing for several years, Read more
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Repost: Why do Slavic cultures love mushrooms?
This is a post first published on my personal website in August 2020. I’m posting it here today to celebrate its sort of fifth birthday. In the last 24 hours hundreds of people in Russia have been reading this, I don’t know why. Read more
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How worried should you be about deathcaps?
Basically not very. We’re unofficially in drought in south-east England and there are no mushrooms to be found yet. So I am getting myself into trouble with a bit of commentary instead! Deathcaps are in the news at the moment because of a court case going on in Australia. This week The Guardian (presumably Australia) Read more
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Chicken of the woods in Cambridge
I’ve not had much luck with chicken of the woods in recent years, and I wouldn’t quite describe this as lucky! Read more
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Turkey tails on laurel
It’s seriously dry in southern England at the moment, worryingly so, especially if you are 90% water by nature. Read more
Fungi Friday 🍄 