OP Social : Mushroom Mania

Learn more about mushrooms as we tour MyCo Planet's growing facility in North Kansas City. We'll also have the opportunity to purchase mushroom products and their growing kits to try at home.

The largest organism on the planet is a mushroom at over 2.4 miles across and that over 80% of the earth you walk on is actually covered in mycelium, the part of the fungus that lives underground. Mushrooms have been on this planet for nearly 800 million years helping to decompose waste material and provide nutritious soils and carbon dioxide for plants to grow. Placing growing mushrooms in the same space as plants have been shown to increase growth by up to 30%! On top of all this, mushrooms are an amazing superfood, they are used to treat many ailments with new research coming out all the time. They are used to create amazing, sustainable products like, packing…