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A Chester County borough produces half of the country’s mushrooms.

As mushrooms become more prominent in nearly all spheres of modern life — including wellness, pop culture and cuisine — they’re also becoming sought-after motifs in interior design.

Refugees of war-torn Cameroon recently joined a Penn State webinar to learn about mushroom growing.

Specialty mushrooms such as oyster are relatively easy to grow on a small scale, making them attractive to those looking to diversify a farm, engage in a hobby or launch a small business. Research-based information from Penn State Extension about producing specialty mushrooms also may benefit people from a war-torn region of Africa.  

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, nearly 600 million tons of construction and demolition debris from man-made polymers and petroleum-based materials was generated in 2018 in the United States. That total amounts to more than twice the amount of...

"I'm not super concerned whether or not people choose to be vaccinated or not. That doesn't make me feel any less safe or prohibit me from going out at all.” 

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A research team led by Benay Gürsoy, assistant professor of architecture and director of the Form and Matter (ForMat) Lab in the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing, was awarded the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Upjohn Research Initiative grant to advance...

A nearly $4 million grant awarded to the College of Agricultural Sciences will support an interdisciplinary, multi-university team of researchers as they investigate technologies designed to address labor shortages on mushroom farms.

USDA grant supports Penn State research on automation of mushroom industry

A new robotic mechanism has been developed by scientists from Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences for picking and trimming mushrooms. The team showed its effectiveness in the automatic harvesting of button mushrooms.