Why spend $10 on a tiny handful of fancy mushrooms you know nothing about at the grocery store, when you could spend hours of research on a specific type of mushroom, find where it grows, and then spend several days trying to find it to forage it and bring home to cook??

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Bring on autumn!

King of the mushrooms

There is no denying it: Pedro Pascal is having a bit of a moment. Between his gruff, fatherly role as Joel in The Last of Us, those unnerving Merge Mansion advertisements, and that 'Nicolas Cage Looking At Pedro Pascal' meme, he's been all over ALL of our screens. Not that we're complaining. The actor is the man of the moment. People are proclaiming him both “Daddy” and “Zaddy,” and it's not hard to see why. Between his acting ability and kind, funny, and thoughtful interviews and off-screen mo…

“This mushroom, again considered a gift by the Koryak people, grows at the base of pine trees. What do you put under pine trees on Christmas? Gifts!”

We've all seen those memes about the moment the edible hits and you're blasting off to outer space. But what if you took the edible without actually knowing it would have psychoactive, trip-inducing properties? As marijuana and even shrooms become legal in some places around the country, these substances are being packed into some tantalizing and sometimes confusing formats. Putting magic mushrooms into a chocolate bar may be a way to ingest them pleasantly, but as is the case with weed gummies…

“He is totally fine and will try to do it all over again if he can. We keep mushrooms for mycology research only—he was like this for the night but woke up the next morning back to normal.”

It's that time of the year when we're all thinking the same thing: what if I moved into a secluded rural cottage with the love of my life where we could bake bread and connect with nature ? Something about fall makes you want to be at one with the natural world, no matter how much of a city slicker you are. I want some leaves to crunch under my shoes outside of my rustic farmhouse, and I want it now! Nature allows your mind to relax and think about things in a whole new way. Nobody tries to sel…

Looks like a fun guy

There's a new wojak in town

Understatement of the year.

So random but so great

Ideas don't get much worse than this.

Marco-photographer extraordinaire, Alison Pollack, focuses her photography on fungi and Myxomycetes.