North Spore Mushroom Co. won $100,000 in the “Greenlight Maine” Season 3 entrepreneurial pitch contest. It's the second of Maine's major pitch contests won by the Westbrook mushroom farm, which sells ...

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North Spore Mushroom Co., an urban mushroom farm based in Westbrook, won $100,000 in Greenlight Maine’s Season 3 entrepreneurial pitch contest, whose finale featured pitches by Forager, North Spore ...

The business was founded to obtain psilocybin spores for microscopy research purposes, each syringe containing hundreds of thousands of mushroom spores (each black dot visible with the naked eye is ...

High-speed video has revealed that the incredible variety of fantastic forms taken by fungal spores helps them catapult themselves into the air. For hundreds of years, scientists have described the ...

I really like puffballs, not the huge football-sized ones that are starting to show up in the lawns around my house (those are very cool) but rather the smaller, ping-pong sized ones that grow in the ...

A sweeping new farm bill signed into law focuses on fluoride in drinking water, but there’s another provision that includes the banning of certain mushroom spores in Florida. The bill, which ...

Many once thought that mushrooms spread by passively dropping their spores, after which the reproductive packets would hopefully get picked up by a gust of wind, and carried thither and yon. But new ...