A Mushroom Museum in Greece and its products

Submitted by Kalliopi Stara on 30 April 2020
Τhe Museum is located in Kalambaka, a small town in Thessaly region, by Meteora, a rock formation hosting one of the largest and most precipitously built complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries. The area is included on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

The Natural History Museum of Meteora and Mushroom Museum has been established in December 2014, in Kalambaka, Greece. It is a private museum that stems from the collaboration of three people sharing the same interests about nature. The Museum’s collections consist of about 350 species of animals and 250 species of mushrooms and their natural habitats that are presented into dioramas. Beyond its general objectives (to highlight natural heritage, enhance environmental awareness, organize educational activities etc.), the Museum aims to focus on the closest relationship among mushrooms,...

"Aromas del Encinar - AROEN": aromatic and medicinal plants from Madrid municipality rural areas

Submitted by Jacopo Giacomoni on 20 April 2020
Holm oak forest

“Aromas del encinar - AROEN”, in Spanish language,  literally means “aromas from the holm oak forests” and is a family-run project born with the aim to enhance the sustainable management of this ecosystem, very frequent in the Madrid municipality. In fact, this ecosystem, in the last decades,  has been often abandoned due to low profitability. The project is based on strong resource management and biodiversity conservation plan, promoting wild-collected aromatic and medicinal plant goods.

Mercasetas/Mercatrufas: Linking producers with consumers.

Submitted by josemiguel.alte... on 1 April 2020
Tuber melanosporum production area

MERCASETAS and MERCATRUFAS are fundamentally tools for the promotion and commercialization of the mycological resource and an opportunity to approach and encourage the consumption of these products among the attending public.

MERCATRUFAS is a market for Black Truffles (Tuber melanosporum) with a mycological character, being the meeting point between the truffle grower and the final consumer, who is guaranteed about the origin and quality of all the truffles with strict quality controls.

MERCASETAS is a new concept of market of mycological products, mainly oriented to...