Mushrooms Make Sense is an informative and fun website run by the Mushroom Bureau.

The Mushroom Bureau funding members are made up from mushroom growers and associated trades in the UK, Ireland and Continental Europe.  They are responsible for the general publicity of all fresh cultivated mushrooms sold in Britain.

Mushrooms Make Sense home page

This easy to navigate and fun website offers everything you need to know about cultivated mushrooms combined with some fantastic recipe videos from Loveable chef Gino D’Acampo.

If you are looking for great mushroom recipes, then the Mushrooms Make Sense site is perfect.  There are clear instructions and mouthwatering images for a whole variety of mushroom dishes, including soups, risottos and much more.

Latest news from the world of mushrooms, includes scientific studies into nutritional aspects of mushrooms and their potential role in weight loss diets as well as their ability to help fight against cancers.

Learn about different members of the cultivated mushroom family. From the well know white mushrooms through to brown, portabello, oyster, shitake, enoki and buna-shimeji.

Mushrooms Make Sense has an informative section on the health benefits of mushrooms which are full of healthy vitamins and minerals, including a high content of vitamin C and fibre.

The website could benefit from a search function and would definitely keep people’s interest if there were a newsletter or e.mail sign up or an RSS feed.

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Wild Mushrooms Online is a great website for fungi lovers and wild food foragers. It has become one of the largest in the UK for wild mushroom information.

Some of the topics covered include;

• Learn how to find, identify and pick wild mushrooms.
• Recipes for wild mushrooms.
• How to grow your own mushrooms.
• Information on buying dried mushrooms

The aim is to populate the site with fungi information from all over the world but a with a focus on mushrooms of the UK, it is an excellent resource for British Foragers.

A new Meet other Foragers section allows you can meet and communicate with other people who want to have a forgaing companion. It is always a very good idea to team up as you find more and can share the fun of identification. It also make a great day out with new friends.

Wild Mushrooms Online website

Based on Roger Phillips seminal work ‘Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain and Europe’ and the similar book published on the mushrooms and Fungi of North America.

Roger’s twenty-year study will make his site the most complete collection of photographs and mushroom information from both sides of the Atlantic ever assembled.

With over 3000 images to help you identify and learn more about the mushrooms of Europe and North America!

User friendly searchable index by name, or image.