The Urban Farmstead hosts an evening of mushrooms
 

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Mushrooms have a lot of different uses, from salad topper to psychedelic, but one use that might benefit New Orleans is that of storm water filtration system. Fungi, it turns out, consume bacteria and secrete antibacterial metabolites that can help clean water and break down pollutants.

The folks over at the Urban Farmstead of New Orleans, a permaculture education center that aims to create more independently sustainable communities, will host a workshop on the many uses of mushrooms this Wednesday, Aug. 27 at the Beatnik (1638 Clio St.) at 5 p.m.? [ Read more ]

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