Mushrooms are a Good Thing™️

Forests, with their wealth of falling leaves, needles, branches and entire trees, are the perfect environment for fungal diversity. To the extent possible, as agricultural professionals, we should try to emulate the forest floor. These wood chips are a great example, supporting the 'pheasant's back' mushroom clusters. When you have healthy mushrooms you have healthy soil. You can't have either if you use fungicide. This is why Epona exists, to show the way (with many others) towards a fungicide-free future in our vineyards.

Here's a cool map of the world, showing where fungi thrive and where they don't.

Underground Atlas: Mycorrhizal Biodiversity Map v1.0

Explore the distribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) and ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungi to identify biodiversity hotspots and areas with rare, endemic fungi.