National Mushroom Month: September

No roots, fed by mycelia

NATIONAL MUSHROOM MONTH: All through September, National Mushroom Month celebrates the wide variety of "mushrooms" (the fruiting bodies of fungal mycelia) that are available.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture also takes advantage of the opportunity to educate people on the versatility mushrooms offer, including their many health benefits.

As a result, mushrooms are gaining more and more appreciation as we learn more about them.

#NationalMushroomMonth

To fully celebrate the heritage of mushrooms (shrooms, toadstools, Easter eggs, fun guys in the garden...), we must first learn about the Mushroom Capital of the World.

Located just outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one will find a small town known Kennett Square. Surprisingly, this small Pennsylvanian borough produces over one million pounds of mushrooms a day.

Each year Kennett Square holds the annual Mushroom Festival starting with a parade.

Visitors also enjoy tours of mushroom farms or visit vendors to buy food and other goods.

'Shroom Science

Scientifically, mushrooms belong to the fungi kingdom (not plant, not mineral, not animal).

Fungi grow from carbon and energy from dead plants (particularly the cellulose sugar and chitin proteins from husks) and animals. Interestingly, this has helped scientists to conclude mushroom DNA is more similar to humans than it is to plants, as previously thought.

Through the study of mushrooms, scientists learn more about fungi, especially identifying whether they are single-cell or multicellular organisms.

Mushrooms contain many useful nutrients. Because of this, mushrooms are an excellent source of vitamins (particularly Vitamin D, which significantly increases when cut mushrooms are placed in the sun). Eating mushrooms is a great way to naturally get copper, fiber, potassium, protein, selenium, Vitamin B, and zinc into the human body.

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As scientists continue to study mushrooms, there is hope of discovering more medicinal uses -- such as treating depression, PTSD, phobias such as an intense fear of death, and other mental conditions, as with LSD, which is a fungus called ergot that grows on rye). These discoveries only add to the many benefits of mushrooms.

Mushrooms are either edible (nutritious, entheogenic) or inedible (toxic, poisonous). We find edible mushrooms in cuisine throughout the world. Almost all mushrooms available at the store are cultivated and safe rather than wildcrafted (foraged) and risky. These types of mushrooms are available year-round.

The most common cultivated mushroom are the white button, flavorful cremini (just a baby portobello), earthy adult portobello, shiitake, tasty tree oyster, maitake, but most mushroom eat (particularly in the form of mushroom soups) contains no soup at all but the more reliable mycelia).

"There are old mushroom hunters, and there are
bold mushroom hunters, but no old-bold ones."

Inedible mushrooms are often found popping up in the wild, though many also grow in backyards and moist front lawns. However, it can be difficult to determine whether a mushroom is poisonous or safe to eat. It takes more than a guidebook; it takes an expert. There are no reliable shortcuts, hacks, or rules of thumb to depend on. For example, some think mushrooms that have red on the cap or stem are known to be poisonous, or that stems that bruise purple are hallucinogenic, but it is nowhere near that easy to tell. Avoid eating mushrooms with white gills, a skirt, or a ring on the stem -- or anything else until knowing with certainty that it is safe for consumption. Not all poisonous mushrooms are deadly; many might just cause a stomachache or voiding. But often there are no symptoms just liver damage leading to death days later. Because wild mushrooms are hard to identify, leave identification of wild mushrooms to professional mycologists and mushroom hunters and foragers.

Eating poisonous mushrooms, even if not deadly (like the famous fly agaric Amanita muscaria, can and often makes eaters very sick. It can possibly kill a person based on their personal constitution or susceptibilities. So, when in doubt, throw it out. Save it for examination rather than consumption. More

• Mushroom hunting, urban foraging, and survival training: SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com

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LYRICS: "Exhume to Consume"

Grimly I dig up the turfs/To remove the corrupted stiffs/Trying to contain my excitement/As I desecrate graveolent crypts.../Fingers claw at coffin lids/Eager festal exhumation/Hugging your wry, festered remains/With posthumous joy and elation.../Body snatched, freshly interred/Whatever takes my fancy/To satisfy my gratuitous pica/My culinary necromancy.../Scrutinized then brutalized/My forensic inquisition is fulfilled/My recipe is now your epitaph/Be it fried, boiled, or grilled...//I devour the pediculus corpse/Whetting my palate as I exhume/The festering stench of rotting flesh/Makes me drool as I consume...//CHORUS: Caskets I grate/My larder's a grave/I'm sickly obsessed (with the badly decomposed)/Rotten remains I eat/Purulent meat/What a funeral feast (putrid reek)//Weeping tissue is stripped/Pus dribbles from my lips/Pulverizing this pustular chaff/Butchering up morgue's makes me laugh...//Ulcerated flesh I munch/Rotting corpses are my lunch/On bones I love to crunch (on the badly decomposed)/Shriveled innards I lick/The corpse's head I kick/Crumbling shreds I pick (eat the stiffs)//[Guitar solo: morbid melody for the deceased with salt to taste]//Rancid flesh, slaughter the dead/--Caskets exhumed.../Corpses disinterred, graves disturbed/--To consume...//Bereaved relatives are not amused/As on their dear departed I feverishly consume...//Slavering worms, decomposure burns/Corrosion born, as bacteria gnaw//Desecrate.../Precipitate....(from the muddy grave)/Macerate.../Eviscerate...//Caskets I grate/My larder's a grave/I'm sickly obsessed (with the badly decomposed)/Rotten remains I eat/Purulent meat/What a funeral feast (putrid reek)//Saponified fats, nibbled by rats/--freshly exhumed.../Deep down six feet is where I like to eat/--Human flesh to consume...

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Gerlach, as passionate as a ghoul about death

WIKI: In January 2026, Jonathan Gerlach of Ephrata, Pennsylvania, was arrested and charged with burglary, abuse of a corpse, and the desecration and theft of venerated objects stolen from Mount Moriah Cemetery. Authorities had been investigating vandalism and theft of 26 mausoleums and underground vaults from the cemetery that began in fall 2025. Gerlach was caught leaving the cemetery at night with a sack containing the mummified remains of two children, three skulls, and various loose bones. An investigation of his house in Ephrata revealed over 100 pieces of human bones stolen from the cemetery (Source: Man stole hundreds of skulls and bones from Mount Moriah Cemetery, authorities say).

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