“Fungi Can Teach Us a New Way of Looking at the World”

Re:“Fungi Can Teach Us a New Way of Looking at the World” by lubujackson on Friday October 02, 2020 @08:02PM (#24668282)

I recently watched the documentary "Fantastic Fungi" and it had very interesting part about how myccelium have millions or billions of tiny roots connecting and crisscrossing through the soil all across the country, like a single macro lifeform conglomerating underground.

Most interesting was a comment about how we have recently discovered that trees communicate using these myccelium roots, things like signals of distress from lack of water or from nearby fires. I couldn't help but think of these roots as something like neural pathways. It is amazing how much we still have to learn about mushrooms.

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Re:“Fungi Can Teach Us a New Way of Looking at the World” by vram22 on Saturday October 03, 2020 @12:21AM (#24669509)

Re: "macro life form" and "trees communicate", Gabe Brown and/or Elaine Ingham also talk about that. IIRC, Brown (regenerative farmer for ~20 years), quotes Ingham (soil biology scientist - soilfoodweb.com). So do some other regen ag people whose videos I've been watching, e.g. Richard Perkins of Ridgedale Permaculture, Sweden. Recommend his and Brown's YouTube videos for good overviews and even good solid technical details of what regen ag techniques are, and why they work (well, and cheaper than "conventional" ag). Both are regen ag farmers who have been doing it successfully for years.

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