All Blog Posts Tagged 'mycol' (19)

Oh no! Many of you know Mycol and have enjoyed visiting Finca Mycol. Well, there's been a fire there and so much has burned up. There's a fundraiser here and your support is…

Mycol: "Whenever I travel to and fro the mountains, I take with me my pressure cooker. Here is some of my cinnamon I grew in Sarasota (dried and powdered bark), preserved Berkleys and chicken shroom, and heirloom org tomatoes from Yanna and …

Mycol Stevens and I went up to the Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina and made a series of plant walk botany videos. This one is one of the best. Check it out! Just click on the photo…

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Tomorrow, the gathering begins in beautiful Hawthorne, FL. There's a bike ride down there via the Hawthorne trail organized. If you've been to Mycol's Finca for the previous gatherings, you know it's a special time. …

 A total of 27 products were analysed, with ten of them containing horse DNA, while 23 of them tested positive for pig DNA.

The days of small, rural homesteads like the Dudley Farm are not gone. In fact, most…

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Springtime at the McRorie Community Garden

Plants are blooming, bees are buzzing, and all's well at the garden. We made a delicious dinner last night using the florets from our prolific broccoli. This was an easy meal: we sauteed the broccoli florets in a little olive oil, added some garlic and salt and then poured in a little tomato sauce and pre…

I've been out of town a long weekend with my sprouts safely watered and growing in my kitchen. I'll be back later today, hopefully to a five day growth of tomato and basil sprouts. Anticipation!

Keep your eyes peeled for some new content in the Coffee Zoo, too...

The garden patch is cleared of those pesky weeds for the…

Marc Williams leads an online botany class from his website, Botany Everyday. It starts tomorrow, March 23rd. 

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Mycol Stevens walks the trails at Pisgah Forest, outside Asheville, NC. Mycol is a degreed engineer specializing in habitat restoration with Florida Wildlife Commission. He's got a WWOOFer farm, teaches mycology and earth skills. More info about Finca Mycol, his off the grid haven in North Florida is at…

Frank Cook discusses a concept he calls flow, which is the interrelatedness of all things in the world. Frank's work has influenced many of the people here on Zoobird, particularly Mycol Stevens, Marc Williams and the folks at the Hostel in the Forest. You'll hear people at many of the botany related festivals and gatherings mention Frank Cook…

Check out this and the dozen or so related videos on Ethnobotany! These were recorded in the Pisgah Nat'l Forest in North…

Coyote tells us about the Firefly Primitive Skills Gathering: