Far West Blog

CreoLa CreoLa is a quaint New Orleans inspired bistro, with locations in San Carlos and San Francisco. Their Wild Mushroom Jambalaya (photo above) is a Far West Fungi favorite! Owner and chef Eddie Caba is also a mycological society member and has been a long time Far West Fungi customer! Located: 900 Stanyan Street, San Francisco 344 Camino Real, San Carlos www.creolabistro.com (Creola is offering 15% off online and in-store with coupon code “MushroomMonth”) Namu Stone Pot Known for the ‘Cali-Korean’ dishes, and their World Famous Namu Stonepot Rice, featuring seven vegetables, tofu, kimchee, and sesame on a bed of...

It's Elderberry season here in Northern California. This highly medicinal fruit tree is so common that we often walk right past them without recognizing it. In ditches and along hedgerows, in gullies and along the edges of wood copses, they bloom frothy cream-colored flowers in late spring, and now in late summer, clusters of tiny berries. The fruit often appears white at first glance, but depending on the variety when ripe it is a powdery blue or actually almost black. The white comes from a bloom of wild yeast, similar to the powdery coating often found on fresh grapes. Elderberries...

The fungal kingdom is, as you might expect, filled with some truly bizarre and mind-blowing oddities - and the more you learn, the weirder it gets! Here’s a countdown of our top seven favorite weird mushroom facts. World's Largest Organism When asked about the largest living creature on earth, most people think of the blue whale, or maybe a Sequoia Redwood, but speaking in square footage, the largest single living thing on the planet is actually a mushroom. Or, a mycelium, rather. It is an Armillaria ostoyae, or Honey Mushroom, and it lives in the soil of Oregon’s Malheur National...