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Fungi
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Bacteria are so small they need to stick to things or they will wash away; to attach themselves, they produce a slime, the secondary result of which is that individual soil particles are bound together. [...]
Fungal hyphae, too, travel through soil, sticking to them and binding them together, thread-like, into aggregates. [...]
The soil food web, then, in addition to providing nutrients to roots in the rhizosphere, also helps create soil structure: the activities of its members bind soil parti
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― Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
― Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
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What sort of pasta are you making?"
"Pasta con funghi."
He watched as she took a bowl of strange, round, reddish brown mushrooms out of the larder. The air immediately filled with their rich, earthy scent. Ripe as a well-cellared cheese, but tinged with the odors of leaf mold and decay, it reminded him a little of the smell of offal in his native Roman dishes. "How many kinds of funghi do you cook with?" he asked.
"Oh, hundreds. It just depends on what I find in the woods."
"You pick these yours
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― The Food of Love
― The Food of Love
