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Can Mushrooms Help Extinguish Toxic Waste?

Modern Farmer

Her Belgian start-up cultivates mycelium—the thread-like root structure of fungus—using the plastic- and toxin-laden stubs as fodder. And mushrooms of all kinds sprout as they feast on crop waste, coffee grounds and horse manure. More recently, mycologists have been unleashing fungi on common industrial and consumer waste.

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PARALLEL ECONOMIES - AGRICULTURE

The Lunatic Farmer

We’ve spent a couple of generations exiting historically normal tasks and behavior, from integrating livestock and crops, growing gardens, buying locally and cultivating domestic culinary arts. You couldn’t pack more animals in a house than you could bring in feedstocks and haul out manure by draft power. Poop covered the streets.