Trends start a long way from main street. By the time something becomes fashionable, it's been well and truly broken in by the first tribe to come up with the idea, or see the potential, or recognise the comfort.
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It was a few months ago when I realised how many people were selling mushrooms at the local markets. Hmm, must be a good reason, I thought.
When I was chatting with Alex Morris, one of our contributing writers at the Herald, she mentioned that she had met Monty Sharma, one of the most enthusiastic mushroom educators in the Hunter.
And thus began the seed of her idea for a story about mushrooms and how they are trending here, there and everywhere, being touted as a superfood with great medicinal value.
Mushroom grow kits have exploded overseas during the pandemic. And now, they are catching on here too. As Alex has written in her in-depth feature story for Weekender, Monty Sharma, Jose Sanchez and others are spreading the word, and spreading the mycelium (the vegetative part of a fungus or fungus-like bacterial colony, which is what mushrooms are).
People are even using a liquid tincture from mushrooms in their coffee.
Here's to the latest trend, there's plenty of time to catch up with this one.
Jim Kellar is the editor of Weekender