The Great Australian Mushroom Co. in Epping, Victoria, Australia | Speciality food shop

The Great Australian Mushroom Co.

Locality: Epping, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 433 759 833

Address: Store 90; 35 Produce Dr 3076 Epping, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.gramcofungi.com

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25.01.2022 Magnified messenger crystals secreted by fomentarius mycelium, advancing ahead of its leading edge before coming into contact with a bacteria. . . . #bacteria #mycelium #beauty #wonder #fungi #messengercrystals #patterns #nature #gramcofungi

24.01.2022 We now know enough about the human impact on the planet, but many of our scientific outcomes are not reaching the people, which is the reason why our actions are not catching up with the amount of harm we are causing. Yet when we are asked of our dreams, we can agree that we want to be happy and healthy in a peaceful environment with our friends and other inhabitants. It’s not enough to intellectually understand the challenges we are facing. We need to understand emotionall...y what the decisions we need to make are and why, and think about how we can be brave enough to make the decisions and take action. . . . #mindfulness #consciousness #environmentalconsciousness #action #healthyplanet #savetheplanet #shiftingmindest #ecology #future #servethefuture #sustainability #environment #gramcofungi See more

23.01.2022 A massive blue economy opportunity with Australian Seaweed AgriFutures Australia has released an Australian Seaweed Industry Blueprint that outlines plans for a $1.5 billion Australian seaweed industry that could employ 9,000 people and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 10%. Investors and entrepreneurs are lining up to get involved in this lucrative opportunity where they can make a difference by reducing emissions, improving ocean health and creating jobs in regional areas.... Seaweed offers a huge opportunity for Australia’s blue economy development with the global seaweed market projected at $30 billion by 2025. Australia has no commercial scale seaweed ocean farms and no industry development plan, but rapid change is on the horizon, says Jo Kelly, CEO of the Australian Seaweed Institute and lead author of the Australian Seaweed Industry Blueprint. Just one of the native seaweeds found off the Australian coast, Asparagopsis, has been shown to reduce methane emissions from cattle to almost zero when added to their feed. This is significant given around 10% of greenhouse gas emissions in Australia come from the digestion process of cattle. Recent media coverage has revealed major investors such as Andrew Forrest, Woolworths and GrainCorp have invested in Future Feed, a commercialisation of the Asparagopsis feed additive pioneered by the CSIRO. Here are some key opportunities: Large scale ocean cultivation of Asparagopsis seaweed to feed at least 30% of Australia’s cattle herd by 2025 Extension of Kelp farming around fish farms to clean the water and provide additional revenue streams for aquaculture businesses across temperate southern Australia Development of seaweed biofilters to remove excess nutrients and protect the Great Barrier Reef as we provide beneficial agricultural products in an innovative circular economy solution Development of offshore integrated food, energy and carbon sequestration platforms for sustainable food production Biodiscovery from native Australian seaweeds to uncover valuable compounds Development of new seaweed products using advanced manufacturing techniques The opportunities can facilitate ongoing collaboration between research organisations, government and investors, making seaweed production in Australia a high tech and high value, sustainable industry that will support thriving oceans and coastal communities. . . . Australian Seaweed Industry Blueprint #seaweed #water #ocean #sealife #aquaculture #austrilanseaweed #sustainability #environment #nature #innovation #gramcofungi

23.01.2022 Valuable tips for our customers who have purchased our Gourmet Mushroom Farm . . .... https://www.gramcofungi.com/post/grow-your-own-mushroom-farm

23.01.2022 From polar ice to lightning strikes: the 2020 Frank Hurley award. The 2020 awards attracted more than 1,200 entries from 26 countries, with Australian photographers winning four of the five categories. . . . Ice Greenland... Photograph: Craig McGowan/Australia #art #photography #nature #greenland #landscape #documentnature #wild #greenland #iceberg #ice #mountains #gramcofungi See more

22.01.2022 When to consume which mushies . . . Healing Mushrooms, Tero Isokauppila... #suggestion #health #healing #mushroom #fungi #boosthealth #immunity #metabolism #energy #wellness #healthyeating #restoringhealth #mushroom #medicinalmushroom #gramcofungi See more

22.01.2022 Buy the change We make a statement with every single purchase. By supporting businesses with social and environmental programs we can help create positive change. "Most of us don’t realise how much purchasing power we have, and how much it matters," author and CEO Jane Mosbacher Morris notes in her 2019 book Buy the Change You Want to See, going on to describe consumer purchasing power as "an untapped superpower". "Our small choices, when aggregated with those of others, c...an have a massive ripple effect. Our capacity to make change through purchasing is part of what makes me so excited about conscious consumption. So which companies do we purchase from? Officeworks, our favourite stationary and everything else store started an initiative with Greening Australia in 2017, where they made a long-term commitment to plant two trees for every one used. The innovative partnership has been so successful that it won a Banksia Sustainability Award in 2018, which recognises outstanding Australian sustainability initiatives. By the end of July 2020, Officeworks had helped its customers to plant more than 635,000 seeds and seedlings. Staying curious and informed about environmental activities of the stores we purchase from is the first step to take part in this movement of conscious consumption. . . . BBC Story Works #planting #reforestation #officeworks #consciousconsumption #sustainability #environment #csr #awareness #savetheplanet #climatechange #gramcofungi

21.01.2022 Leave everything you touch a little better than you found it. . . . @catsbecauseduh... #nature #love #environment #sustainability #forest #cleantheplanet #earth #universe See more

21.01.2022 So it was climate week and we’re staring at the clock in Union Store in our social media feeds. What do we know now? According to a new global poll, there's growing concern among citizens all over the world about climate change. But respondents had very different attitudes to the level of urgency required to tackle the problem. Big majorities in poorer countries strongly agreed with tackling climate change with the same vigour as Covid-19. However in richer nations, the suppo...rt for rapid action was far more muted... Across the 27 countries surveyed, around 90% saw climate change as a very serious problem. This finding has strengthened over the past few years. According to Eric Whan, from pollsters Globescan, the covid crisis has increased people's sense of the threat from rising temperatures. Intense storms and flooding have also been cited as evidence of a changing climate, and fires are said to have been made worse by rising temperatures and drought. But when people were asked if their governments should tackle the issue with the same urgency as they've tackled the coronavirus pandemic, major differences between rich and poor started to appear. Japan, Sweden, Australia, the US and UK all have less than 45% of respondents strongly agreeing with urgent action. In Kenya, Mexico, Argentina, Turkey and Nigeria the figure was well above 70% in all of them. Similarly, when asked who would suffer the most, more than 60% of respondents in Brazil, Kenya, Turkey, Nigeria and South Africa strongly agreed it would be poor people. But in Japan, Australia, US, UK and others, less than 40% strongly felt it would be the poor who would bear the brunt. There was a real shock as people more and more came to realise that this is a serious problem, that it's anthropogenic, and that we are actually vulnerable and not particularly protected." . . . BBC #climateweek #climatechange #coronavirus #environment #takeaction #globalconcern #oceanwarming #globalwarming #floods #droughts #healthoftheplanet #consciousness #gramcofungi

19.01.2022 With every thought and action we plant a seed for the future. We should always check in with ourselves to see if our thoughts and actions are directing us towards a desirable future. . . . #quotes #servethefuture #mindfulness #consciousness #environmentalconsciousness #sustainability #carefortheplanet #fungi #gramcofungi

17.01.2022 Here's an excerpt from Paul Hawken's speech at the University of Portland. Nature beckons us to be on her side. We couldn’t ask for a better boss. "The earth couldn’t afford to send recruiters or limos to your school. It sent you rain, sunsets, ripe cherries, night blooming jasmine, and that unbelievably cute person you are dating. Take the hint. When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about wha...t is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand the data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world You join a multitude of caring people. The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hope only makes sense when it doesn’t make sense to be hopeful. This is your century. Take it and run as if your life depends on it." . . . #paulhawken #earth #motherearth #environment #nature #climatechange #climatemovement #savetheplanet #drawdown #sustainability #greenpractices #gramcofungi

17.01.2022 Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. - Gary Synder . . . #nature #quotes #garysynder #wisdome #home #health #wellness #environment #carefortheplanet #fungi #gramcofungi

14.01.2022 Imagine being able to place your old clothes in your garden as compost so nature can take care of the rest. The experimental clothing brand Vollebak made this possible! Their hoodie created from eucalyptus trees dyed with pomegranate, will break down in a compost heap within eight weeks. They're fully biodegradable and compostable. "The Plant and Pomegranate Hoodie feels like a normal hoodie, looks like a normal hoodie, and lasts as long as a normal hoodie, but it starts ...its life in nature and is designed to end up there too," says Vollebak co-founder Steve Tidball. They looked back 50 centuries to the earliest humans, who wore biodegradable clothes for inspiration. The Otzi man - our ancestors who was found preserved in ice for over 5,000 years - wore clothes made of plants, tree bark, grass and animal skin. If we support brands like this, we can look forward to a future where we'll be able to throw away all our clothes in the forest and wait for nature to do the rest. . . . Dezeen #nature #sustainablefashion #biodegradablefabric #vollebak #innovation #materialscience #cleanprocesses #clothing #environment #gramcofungi

14.01.2022 Have a rest on this 3D printed living fungus . . . Mycelium Chair by Eric Klarenbeek ... #fungus #3dprinting #materialscience #oystermushroom #yellowoyster #mycelium #nature #naturalmaterials #dezeen #interiordesign #furniture #chair #design #mushroom #materials #newmaterials #fungi #gramcofungi See more

13.01.2022 Fun-guys grow anywhere . . . #oyster #oystermushroom #whiteoyster #mushroom #fungi #diy #homegrowing #gardening #growyouownfood #gramcofungi

13.01.2022 Pickle your mushrooms and have them last for 12 months Ingredients: Mushrooms Good quality apple cider vinegar... Spices (dill, coriander seeds, juniper seeds) Few slices of garlic Spring onion (optional) Non-iodised salt 1. Sterlise your jar in a 200F oven 2. Slice the mushrooms 3. Cook the mushrooms in boiling water for two minutes 4. Make the pickling liquid in another pot (one two one ratio of vinegar to water) 5. Add spices to heated jar 6. Fill jar with spring onion and drained mushroom and cover completely with the pickling liquid 7. Seal the lid tightly, turn the jar upside down and leave to cool; when cooled leave it out of sunlight to store . . . #mushroom #pickles #ferment #mushroompickles #fungi #cooking #diycooking #healthyeating #food #gramcofungi

12.01.2022 A dowel laced with white rhizomorphs, threadlike strands of hyphae. The dowel is used as a base for projecting rhizomorphs. The mycelium on one dowel could potentially remediate many acres of polluted land. . . . #rhizomorphs #cleantheplanet #hypha #mycelium #soilremediation #soilhealth #forest #fungi #gramcofungi

11.01.2022 The world we create shapes us back. - Julia Lohmann Julia Lohmann, German born designer and researcher, built this pavilion in Davos at the World Economic Forum. This organically shaped structure is formed from semi-translucent panels of kelp, laid over a rattan frame. The kelp is treated to remain flexible so that it can be stretched like leather. She believes that "we know too much and do too little," and that "we need an empathic, more than a human-centric way of engagi...ng with nature." The task for Entrepreneurs and Designers is to create new local bio-available products, to protect and regenerate the ecosystem that sustains us. Every species has an equal right to life and we need to empathically engage with the species we impact. . . . Medium / dezeen #seaweed #kelp #design #materialscience #sustainabledesign #ecodesign #savetheplanet #ecology #climatechange #marinelife #gramcofungi

07.01.2022 Bruce Pascoe recovers land in East Gippsland to produce native grains using Aboriginal knowledge It was the first time the land of mandadyan nalluk has been harvested for food in 200 years. Bruce Pascoe, writer of Dark Emu, and his coworkers saw the best harvest after working to recover the land from the bushfires. They raced against the clock to refine methods so seeds can be extracted to make flour. He explains that the emotional toll of reviving this knowledge is in un...derstanding how much has been lost. While there’s grief, there’s also triumph. Pascoe’s team has been able to work right through the coronavirus outbreak. They milled some of the mandadyan nalluk seed into flour and baked a loaf of bread. It’s beautiful bread. It’s a really dark, rye-like flour. Incredibly dark, incredibly aromatic, but also very tasty, Pascoe says, and it’s not like anything he has smelled before. He gets seven or eight requests a day from bakers and restaurateurs to supply seed or flour. He also wants to show local farmers that letting these plants grow is worth the effort. In future years it’ll be commonplace because we can grow these grasses on degraded land. I think there are a lot of farmers on marginal land now. They want some consistency, and they want reduced costs. Perennial grain is a way to do that." We turned our back on anything of Aboriginal provenance, such was our sensitivity to the history of the country. It’s time to embrace the history of the country, and with that we will be able to embrace its food. . . . The guardian #brucepascoe #seedsofchange #grains #farming #recoveringland #australianland #cleanfarming #sustainability #aboriginalculture #foodculture #nativefoods #gramcofungi

07.01.2022 How trees make rain https://www.abc.net.au//trees-make-rain-ease-drou/10236572

06.01.2022 The fungi kingdom is not the only fascinating kingdom on this planet. The titan arum, or the corpse flower, is known to be the smelliest plant on earth, and has the largest unbranched inflorescence that can stand up to 3 metres above ground. It grows between 15 and 18 centimetres a day for a period of around a week, but takes 6-10 years for a flower to bloom. The titan arum is unique not only because of how infrequently it blooms, but also because of how little time it has to... be pollinated by only three species of beetle. McMaster and the Toronto Zoo collaborated on the first-ever preservation protocol to pollinate this corse flower. Biology professor Susan Dudley explains that "This extreme form of plant reproduction is certainly a way of getting people engaged with the natural world and collaborations of this kind are important for conservation efforts." . . . #corpseflower #titanarum #plantkingdom #rarespecies #conservation #torontozoo #flowers #gramcofungi

06.01.2022 Charles Massy transformed his land after being shocked damage to the country worth thousands of years Since owning his property in 1928, Massy sought the best advice, copied the practices of the most successful farmers and developed an innovative merino sheep stud that was profiled on the ABC's Countrywide program. His wool was being bought by the best in Italy for fabric, but he realises now he was overgrazing and killing his best pastures. He acknowledges that his mism...anagement harmed the land he loves. During the droughts of the 80s and 90s he sank into debt buying food for his sheep. By 1982 the entire farm was like a dust bowl. Exhausted and depressed, with debts that would take decades to repay, he came close to "breaking" and nearly sold the farm. "My mental health was atrocious. I know I was depressed for a year or more because I was in this trap." This was what cracked his mind open. It became the catalyst to explore regenerative practices. To survive, he had to change. Farmers had to find a system of farming which doesn't push the land beyond what it is naturally capable of sustaining without chemical inputs, a system that values a complex and healthy soil. He sold half of his land, studied regenerative agriculture, and returned to Uni for a PhD in human ecology in his 50s. Instead of chemical fertilisers, pesticides and herbicides, they have adapted their big machines to spray a combination of worm juice and compost extract to coat the seeds, enrich the soil and boost the plants' immune system. We can take on land that's fairly run down and start to turn it around. He began to advocate for change. "Regenerative agriculture has some of the best solutions to solving a lot of our planetary ills." . . . ABC #Charlesmassy #regenerativefarming #health #planet #love #sustainability #ecology #cleanfarming #sheepfarming #savetheplanet #climatechange #farmingrevolution #australianland #gramcofungi

05.01.2022 Grocery Store receipts can now calculate your carbon footprint Have you ever wondered how your shopping patterns impact climate change? A Dublin-based startup called Evocco developed an app that can measure your carbon footprint of your food purchases, track which items are making the biggest dent on the planet, and then offset your climate impact too. ... All you need to do is take a photo of the receipt and it’ll calculate the climate impact of these items based on the type, weight and origin of the food. The production and distribution of food accounts for around a third of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions. The app lets consumers understand their contributions individually, so they can decide on how they want to take meaningful action. Founders of Evocco, Hugh and Ahmad says they see growing demand from consumers to shop sustainably. They aim to have retailers provide information to consumers directly, as they collect sustainable consumer insights. . . . CNN Climate #climate #carbonfootprint #climatechange #shopping #groceries #startup #health #wellness #cleanshopping #carbonfootprint #carbonneutral #sustainableconsumption #sustainability

03.01.2022 Norwegian startup wants to turn desert into farmland with Nanoclay Earlier this ear in March, a team travelled to Dubai and planted watermelon, zucchini and pearl millet in a plot of desert. Five months later, the arid land is filled with rows and rows of green leaves, punctuated by freshly grown fruits and vegetables. This was made possible by Liquid Nanoclay - a new innovation produced by Desert Control. Made with just water and clay, when sprayed on sand it soaks in and ...attaches to sand particles, boosting water retention and enriching the soil with plant essential nutrients. The mixture increases the fertility of nutrient-poor sandy soils and can reduce water usage by more than half. What's more, Liquid Nanoclay can turn arid land into arable land in just seven hours! They hope to grow vegetables in unlikely places all year round with a solar powered smart farm. . . . CNN #nanoclay #farmtechnology #solarpower #farming #greening #desert #planting #growing #dubai #saharadesert #desertcontrol #smartfarming #gramcofungi

03.01.2022 Dutch startup grows a 'Living Coffin' made of mycelium Dutch startup Loop has created a coffin for a funeral that was filled with moss and was grown, rather than built, out of mycelium, the fungal roots that form a vast underground network that is vital for the health of ecosystems worldwide. Their wish was to allow humans to close the loop of life by enriching the soil they are buried in rather than contaminating it with synthetic and metal materials. This coffin allows ...for a body to compost in a fraction of the time that it would in a traditional wooden coffin. They believe that the process will occur naturally over the course of two to three years, instead of taking over a decade decomposing varnish, metal parts, and synthetic clothing. The coffin has been taken into a collection by a funeral company and the first person has already been buried in this natural and extraordinary way. . . . Interesting Engineering #coffin #funeral #nature #naturaldecomposition #engineering #fungi #mushroom #ecology #ecosystem #innovation #gramcofungi See more

03.01.2022 Organisms can gain nutrients from this beautiful rock. Fungal filaments surrounding cells of green algae or blue-green cyanobacteria. . . . #lichens #fungi #nutrients #nature #bacteria #gramcofungi

02.01.2022 The strikingly beautiful sierran puffball also known as sculptered puffball. It can grow to be over 20kgs, but is only edible when the spore mass is still white. . . . #puffball #sculpturedpuffball #mushroomspecies #fungi #nature #forest #spring #gramcofungi

01.01.2022 Here's Nicky's third flush! Looks like she's taking really good care of them. They can keep growing to produce a fourth flush if you can be patient with them. . . . #shiitake #shiitakelog #mushroom #fungi #growing #growyourownfood #gardening #nature #food #healthyeating #health #wellness #gramcofungi

01.01.2022 Researchers in Montana overturn 150 years of science Toby and John toppled the long-standing idea that lichens are a product of one alga for photosynthesis and one fungus for structure. They found a second fungus that had escaped detection. The most successful of lichens, it turns out, had been with three partners. They say that this completely changed the way they look into nature. Rather than looking for what the've learned from textbooks, they asked what organisms actual...ly make a lichen and there it was. But they were in disbelief. People seek what they are taught, and the most intriguing questions come from those who know nothing about the subject. They were forced to look through fresh eyes of a small child. The duo experienced every scientist’s dream. Their finding was nowhere on the Internet or any textbook. Maybe it’s no accident that one source of funding for the new lichen research comes from NASA, a grant funded through the space program to understand complex organisms in order to detect alien life on other planets. Lichens self-assemble to form a complex organism able to survive droughts, revive in rain and repel predators. Each one represents a cooperative partnership of an alga and a fungus. Many, it turns out, also harbour a second fungus. The fungi form protective homes for the water-requiring algae, so lichens can thrive in dry climates. The algae, in turn, go through photosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide in the atmosphere into oxygen we breathe. Lichens absorb what’s in the air, including pollutants, which gives us good health on Earth. More than 20,000 identified lichen species add to our planet’s tremendous diversity of life. . . . Medium #lichen #discovery #montana #UM #fungi #science #mushrooms #fungiresearch #gramcofungi