Grow your own mushroom adventure.
Free courses and stories about fungi — how mushrooms live, and how to grow tasty ones yourself with a real grow kit. For explorers aged 6–14, plus a pro track for grown-ups.
Fun, easy-to-read stories about fungi and nature — how mushrooms grow, what they do for the forest, and tips for your own grow kit. Always free.
Start reading →Learn by doing: junior courses for ages 6–9, explorer courses for ages 10–14 — and a pro track for grown-ups who dream of a real mushroom growery.
See the courses →Explore the different grow kits in our shop and learn about fungi with our free courses. The supplied instructions explain how to care for your particular kit. Ask a grown-up to help with orders.
Grow kits →Fresh from the Journal
All stories →Yes! Cultivated mushrooms from shops are grown under controlled, inspected conditions—very different from wild ones. The safety rules are simple: keep them cool, cook them, and never swap in a foraged look-alike.
On your plate, mushrooms count as a vegetable, but in biology they are fungi—neither plant nor animal. Here's why the supermarket produce section and the science lab put them in completely different boxes.
The idea that trees talk and share food through underground fungi sounds magical—and it might seem that way when you hear stories about a 'Wood Wide Web.' But scientists reviewing 26 field studies in 2023 found that popular claims ran ahead of the evidence. Here's what's really true.
Learn to grow like a professional.
A sober, hands-on track for adults: growing rooms, sterile technique, substrates and climate control — from your first harvest at home to a working growery, and maybe a business.