{"id":87979,"date":"2019-02-19T12:22:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T20:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/how-oyster-mushrooms-helped-clean-up-after-californias-wildfires"},"modified":"2019-02-19T12:22:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T20:22:44","slug":"how-oyster-mushrooms-helped-clean-up-after-californias-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/how-oyster-mushrooms-helped-clean-up-after-californias-wildfires","title":{"rendered":"How oyster mushrooms helped clean up after California\u2019s wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-oyster-mushrooms-helped-clean-up-after-californias-wildfires.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mycelia consume their food externally, by secreting powerful enzymes that break down molecules. In other words, they \u201cdigest\u201d whatever substrate, or surface, they\u2019re growing on, converting it to nutrients and\u2014depending on the substrate\u2014edible mushrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Proponents say it\u2019s a natural, more benign, and potentially cheaper alternative to the \u201cscrape and burn\u201d approach to environmental clean-up, which involves digging up contaminated soil and incinerating it.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with that traditional approach is that it can remove potentially fertile topsoil, says Theresa Halula, who teaches mushroom cultivation at Merritt College in Oakland, California. Mycoremediation, on the other hand, she says, can help clean up toxic sites while actually <em>improving<\/em> soil fertility.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newfoodeconomy.org\/mycoremediation-radical-mycology-mushroom-natural-disaster-pollution-clean-up\/\">https:\/\/newfoodeconomy.org\/mycoremediation-radical-mycology-...-clean-up\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mycelia consume their food externally, by secreting powerful enzymes that break down molecules. In other words, they \u201cdigest\u201d whatever substrate, or surface, they\u2019re growing on, converting it to nutrients and\u2014depending on the substrate\u2014edible mushrooms. Proponents say it\u2019s a natural, more benign, and potentially cheaper alternative to the \u201cscrape and burn\u201d approach to environmental clean-up, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}