MycoEvolve has a Mycolab that carries out MycoEvolve's mission in research, earthworks, and education. Our lab is aligned with the Radical Mycology Network. We research, practice inoculation techniques, experiment with, and educate about how to apply fungi in habitat enhancing applications such as food & medicine in clean sites & through remediative infrastructure in polluted sites.
Our past activities include:
- catching wild spores & transferring them to agar & liquid cultures
- cultivating different fungal species
- inoculating cold pasteurized straw with liquid cultures
- transferring liquid to grain spawn; grain spawn to cold pasteurized straw, woodchips, & our homegrown hemphull sawdust mix
- installing outdoor installations in community gardens
- inoculating logs for food & medicine
- tending a mycelium nursery and fungal strain library
- providing lab space, spawn, and labor for local mycoremediation projects dedicated to watershed restoration
We grow mycelium for inner city, suburban, & farm resilience projects.
Our practices collaborate with these regenerative beings in areas that are:
- Agricultural: mycelial nets catch pathogens, redirect excess phosphate & nitrate to flora growth cycles
- Urban neighborhoods around buildings: nutrient exchange networks filter, catch, and redirect stormwater
- Rural: protective, inoculated shields border forest, field, & riparian zones for corridor
- Diverse landscapes: microbial rich soil store carbon, cocreate a sponge for water retention, support enriched habitat
As of Fall 2020, we are in pause mode and our lab is in germination storage while our culture library species continue to slowly grow. Once Jess finishes graduate school, the plan is to rearise the lab through a mobile bicycle powered vehicle that can bring learning opportunities to different schools and communities. Currently we are studying mycorrhizae and its efficacy in P uptake from agricultural lands with legacy P.
Take a Peek into our past Lab:
Our past activities include:
- catching wild spores & transferring them to agar & liquid cultures
- cultivating different fungal species
- inoculating cold pasteurized straw with liquid cultures
- transferring liquid to grain spawn; grain spawn to cold pasteurized straw, woodchips, & our homegrown hemphull sawdust mix
- installing outdoor installations in community gardens
- inoculating logs for food & medicine
- tending a mycelium nursery and fungal strain library
- providing lab space, spawn, and labor for local mycoremediation projects dedicated to watershed restoration
We grow mycelium for inner city, suburban, & farm resilience projects.
Our practices collaborate with these regenerative beings in areas that are:
- Agricultural: mycelial nets catch pathogens, redirect excess phosphate & nitrate to flora growth cycles
- Urban neighborhoods around buildings: nutrient exchange networks filter, catch, and redirect stormwater
- Rural: protective, inoculated shields border forest, field, & riparian zones for corridor
- Diverse landscapes: microbial rich soil store carbon, cocreate a sponge for water retention, support enriched habitat
As of Fall 2020, we are in pause mode and our lab is in germination storage while our culture library species continue to slowly grow. Once Jess finishes graduate school, the plan is to rearise the lab through a mobile bicycle powered vehicle that can bring learning opportunities to different schools and communities. Currently we are studying mycorrhizae and its efficacy in P uptake from agricultural lands with legacy P.
Take a Peek into our past Lab:
Funding for the Lab and its collective activity is provided by the NEGEF
http://www.grassrootsfund.org
http://www.grassrootsfund.org
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