Danish Biologists Cultivate Morel Mushrooms Year-Round With New Indoor Technique

The black morel mushrooms are grown in a climate-controlled environment that produces 20 pounds per square yard per year.

In the world of edible mushrooms, the morel #mushroom is one of the most coveted and tasty species. In spring, the highly seasonal mushrooms are found in forests all over the Northern Hemisphere among leaf litter around dead elm, Sycamore, apple, and Ash trees. Despite their popularity, the mushrooms are difficult to cultivate indoors. While some attempts have been made, the yield and quality of the product varies.

Now, two Danish biologists Jacob and Karsten Kirk, who are also twins, have found a reliable method to cultivate hefty amounts of morels indoors in a climate-controlled environment year-round, reports Alla Katsnelson for the New York Times. The technique is the culmination of four decades of research conducted in collaboration with the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University and the University of #Copenhagen, per a statement. The growing method produces 4.2 kilograms of mushrooms over a 22-week growing cycle, which is equivalent to about 10 kilograms per square meter, or 20 pounds of mushrooms per square yard, per year.

#Food #Gardening #Denmark #IndoorGarden

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/danish-biologists-find-technique-to-cultivate-morel-mushrooms-year-round-180980007/

'Russia will lose this war' Ukraine's Zelensky tells large crowd in Copenhagen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnU8PMsVqKo

#Zelensky, #Ukraine, #Copenhagen, #Russia, #war

#TheProdigy - Army Of The Ants #EU #Tour 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcc05jBuTnc

🔥The Prodigy #announce Army Of The Ants EU Tour 2023🔥

Tues 28th Nov: Rockhal, #Luxembourg
Wed 29th Nov: Ziggo Dome, #Amsterdam
Thurs 30th Nov: Mitsubishi Electric Halle, #Dusseldorf
Sat 2nd Dec: TAP1, #Copenhagen
Sun 3rd Dec: Velodrom, #Berlin
Mon 4th Dec: Festhalle, #Frankfurt
Wed 6th Dec: MTP HALA 3A, #Poznan
Thurs 7th Dec: Sportovni Hala Fortuna, #Prague
Sat 9th Dec: Schleyerhalle, #Stuttgart
Sun 10th Dec: L’Olympia, #Paris

Head over to TheProdigy.com to #find #ticket links for the #shows, ahead of them going onsale at 10:00 CET on Friday 23rd June

#musique #music #concert #live #Europe #European

Kindergarten in leach. Copenhagen in the 1950s (2)

#Photography #Children #Kindergarten #Copenhagen #Denmark #1950

Kindergarten in leach. Copenhagen in the 1950s

#Photography #Children #Kindergarten #Copenhagen #Denmark #1950

Had to happen for me too--eventually. Orkz server closed - so not at all #newhere, but new on this server.

Here’s some music to get me started.

#music #jazz #LittleNorth #Denmark #Copenhagen

I was out going for a rainy walk and took some photographs. It is dark at four o'clock in the afternoon, especially in this weather..

#Copenhagen #Denmark #Rain #Darkness #trees #light #photography

Merry Krampus in Copenaghen

#livemusic #gigposter #upcominggig #music #poster #musicposter #merrykrampus #copenhagen #dnmark #livemusiccopenhagen #livemusicdenmark #krampus

Finally Ifeanyi Eluu's Professor Otagburuagu books arrived from the printer. I will be having a small reception on Friday so people who bought it on Kickstarter can collect them and maybe I can sell a few more.

If anyone is in #Copenhagen Friday between 16:30 and 18:30 you are welcome in Mette Saabye's shop, Studiestræde 25B

#book #Nigeria #Kickstarter #Katharsisdrill #IfeanyiEluu

Waking up in #Copenhagen. My family and I are on a vacation here.

And yesterday we met @Jakubu, who is really as nice as his account here on diaspora.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/xpOxEpakyGnq/

#poisoned from the sky by the evil ones and their sky trails
#Graphene #Oxide #Attack #Copenhagen #Storms After #Chemtrails

18th august, day 7 - Copenhagen -> Hamburg

Time to leave Copenhagen behind! Such a warm and welcoming city with an awesome cycling culture. Definitely coming back. Well, can’t avoid it, the quickest route from Finland to Central Europe goes through Copenhagen :)

Pre-train brunch at cafe Kaffestuen highly recommended at Happy Cow. And it certainly didn’t disappoint, not just pretty but extremely tasty and filling too. And vegan of course.

Train (not the one in the picture) to Hamburg was on time and everything basically worked as it should. But it was also full and even with some AC extremely hot and sticky with the 28C weather. I had lots of time to hit myself on the head about failing to buy a little portable fan before leaving. I did have a look in Copenhagen but the only ones I could quickly find were at Flying Tiger, so err nope.

Met a friend at Hamburg train station with plan for food and beers. Weirdly, Hamburg as a proclaimed cycling city actually doesn’t seem to have all that many options for bike sharing. My friend didn’t really know why, possibly the city bikes have chased the competition out? Having a city bike system without competition is all good if the bikes are well maintained, the pricing is affordable and the system is easy to use.

Out of those 3, only the pricing was true for me. Registering to the Stadtrad biking system via their web page went fine up until phone verification was needed. The SMS never arrived. There is no retry button. Another well done IT job. The account section has no way to re-trigger phone verification. The app doesn’t do any better. Trying to reserve a bike returns a mysterious “server error”.

I call their support and listen to endless amounts of German bot voice, expecting some English language instructions on what to do anytime now. It never arrives. After all, this is only the support number for the city bikes marketed for tourists as the best way to get around the city. Apparently only German tourists are actually welcome.

My friend calls support and has better luck actually speaking German. The support person is completely mystified. They give us a code to type into the app, but can’t say where the code should go in the app. We thank them and go through every single part of the app. The only place to type in a code (which may or may not be the right place) throws the mysterious server error.

We look at other options. There are none. Apparently bike sharing by other companies in Hamburg just doesn’t exist currently. Which is a bit of a bummer trying to get around when the Stadtrad system gives you the middle finger in German.

I accept that my 5€ initial yearly fee for the biking system has been lost and my friend created an account on their phone number. This works for tonight but doesn’t allow me to use the bikes the next two days I am here. The first bike I try has issues with the gears and makes a scary squeaking noise while pedalling, so we switch to another bike at the next rental station. The next bike is in good condition and actually nice to ride. These have 7 gears and you can actually get to a nice speed with them. Finally we make it to beer and food \o/

Cycling in Hamburg immediately strikes me as much more chaotic, compared to Copenhagen, but also in some ways to Helsinki. The cycling paths seem to be very narrow and often going in the middle of the pavement, making pedestrians constantly be in the way and in danger. Car traffic is high and fast, and in some situations the road seems to be the only place to bike. My friend tells me of constant dangerous situations with cars cutting him off during his daily commutes around the city. He always wears a camera which has once managed to get him justice when a car bumped into him, and the recording had the licence plate of the car. Cycling definitely seems very popular here though just by the number of bikes around.

Vegan burger with cauliflower “wings” at Brewdog was good. The apparently famous ÜberQuell brewery pizzas need to be tried another time, they were full and could only give us beer. To the hotel just in time for midnight check-in, into a hot room with barely working AC.

Forgot to record days cycling, approx 3km in Copenhagen and ̃12km in Hamburg.

Total kilometres travel approx: 1420km

#travel #travelbyland #jasontravels #copenhagen #hamburg #cycling #stadtrad

17th August, day 6 - Copenhagen

Yesterday I overdid the amount of time I spent in the sun based on the tingling in my arms and neck. Being out for hours in direct sunlight at the worst UV time was a poor idea. So after a relaxing sleep I stayed in until the afternoon except for a quick trip to Grød nearby for lunch. Really nice place focused on things like porridge and bowls, largely plant based. The bowl I took was actually more of a mix between a bowl and a lentil soup, anyway it was very good.

Some hours and laundry later I went out to return my “beloved” mountain bike, exchanging it for a Donkey bike. Much nicer tbh 😅.

Got to do some touristy things a day, so I headed to the Christiansborg castle tower. Impressive security just to see a tower, basically the same as going on a flight. To be honest, the views were not that interesting. Copenhagen is best at the street level.

Still hadn't visited one of the more unique places Copenhagen has to offer - Christiania. I had no idea what to expect but it's easy to know when you've arrived - the smell of marijuana is just everywhere. Even at Cafe Nemoland, where I had a decent vegan burger, where all the tables have "no joints" signs, for pure show clearly. Festival like chaos all around. So weird and wonderful. Didn’t take too many photos as it seemed like not the right thing to do here, and one street even had no photos signs. Which is understandable given the open sale of pot.

I'm more of a craft beer person than a joint person however, so up to Mikkeller Baghaven, the place I saw from the other side of the bay two days earlier. Apparently it's the place they brew their sours, but thankfully they also sell other stuff, as I'm not a sour beer person either :P

When coming back to the flat, I ended up going south via a different route and cycled through this awesome few kilometres of pure cycle path / walkway with all kinds of cute small houses. What was interesting was the speedbumps, apparently for cyclists? It was totally dark I'm afraid so I totally need to go back there again during daylight one day. I also saw a fox scurrying away! Foxes are great.

Total kilometres approx (still): 990km

#travel #travelbyland #jasontravels #copenhagen

16th August, day five - Copenhagen

I took a conscious risk when deciding to stay at a hostel. For sure the risk for covid for example is that little much larger. Well, this morning that risk partly materialised. The reception informed us in the morning there is a person in the room who tested positive with a self-test.

Now, amazingly, this person in their own words already had flu symptoms the day before. Either they didn't inform the staff of this or the staff put the person in a room with 3 other people anyway. Somewhat irresponsible either way.

Mask on, quick pack of gear and out of the room as quickly as possible. At least the person wasn't coughing but still I spent approx 7 hours sleeping in the same room. Going to need to mask up when inside for some time and do some daily tests. I checked out of the hostel two nights early to avoid further exposure.

But, "onni onnettomuudessa", as we say in Finland! Means roughly luckily getting away with something in an accident. A person who I was going to meet for beers today offered me their couch even though the risk, massive thanks ❤️ A replacement hotel room would have cost a few hundred euros and even more if I do get sick for some days.

So out for some breakfast. Chose Cafe Kalaset from my list. And wow this place is really worth the visit. The banana bread was especially awesome!

(^ apparently the cats were waiting for me in the bathroom of Cafe Kalaset 🙈 )

It’s another hot day in Copenhagen. Loaded with a full backpack without access to a shower until the evening it felt a bit too much combined with the humid heat, so I mainly cycled around a bit and had a few beers in the shade. My corona test for today was negative.

Apparently it's pride week in Copenhagen, which explains the flags everywhere. I kind of assumed maybe it's always like this? :P

Met my friendly host later and we had a really nice evening with spicy vegan ramen and got taken to a few nice places for beers.

Total kilometres approx (still): 990km

#travel #travelbyland #jasontravels #copenhagen

Hey so do I know anyone in #Copenhagen? I like to explore on my own, but I'm here still for 2 full days, and it's starting to get lonely 😁 Beer company shoutout?

14th August, day 3 - Stockholm to Copenhagen

Probably slept too little, tried to get on the wrong bus from the terminal to the railway station (some random tourist bus). Also forgot to actually figure out where my bus ticket is before trying to get on the right bus 😁

One hour in Stockholm before the train leaves, so a quick walk around in the morning sun and a mozzarella toast for breakfast. I'm giving myself some more than normal slack if I can't find anything vegan available during travel time. It quite often seems to be a choice of "you don't eat meat? Well have this other animal product then".

Train journey to Copenhagen went uneventfully. Swedish trains, at least the X2 running on this route are very comfy with lots of legroom. Had to switch at Malmö, which seems to be a common thing for this route, needed to do it last time as well. Announcements are also in English and the SJ app is excellent for seeing route info and disruptions.

It’s soooo hot (30C with almost no wind), so I decided to chill at the hostel for a bit after the second shower of the day. The hostel is called Steel House Copenhagen. It’s a massive hostel, and feels very comfy and well taken care of, with a well stocked bar, lots of place to chill, games, kitchen, swimming pool, etc. And more hip people listening to hip music than you can point a finger at.

To get around I jumped on a Donkey Republic bike. It's a basic cheap 3-gear that handles like an elephant, but it gets you around. You can find them all around the city and they’re quite cheap (it cost me 105DKK or 14€ from the afternoon to evening, which is very decent pricing). There is an app to operate the bike lock, so jumping off and walking around is easy too.

Riding a bike here is great, it's not just marketing words. Obviously being as flat as a pancake also helps. Most larger roads seem to have a cycle path separated from the road and pedestrians. It feels a ton safer to cycle here even as an outsider, compared to my hometown Helsinki, where going on the road, even if it’s a cycle path section of the road, is just scary due to cars driving so fast. All the markings are much clearer too, and of course it helps to know you can just take any road and cycle on the right side of it. In Helsinki you need to jump between sides quite often and the markings are just really poor, which leads to either cycling on the road or pavement, to try and find the next piece of cycle path.

After nine kilometres cycling around I found a nice little side street vegan burger place called Eden Jaxx. Btw, Happy Cow is a nice app to find some vegan/veggie options around large cities globally.

The architecture of this city is so beautiful, I could spend the day just going around looking at buildings.

Some more exploring around, around the seafront mainly, before ending up at the Warpigs Brewpub (Mikkeller) for a good pint of beer. Too tired to do anything else after two short nights so crept up to the hostel to get some sleep.

Total kilometres approx: 990km

#travel #travelbyland #jasontravels #stockholm #copenhagen #cycling

Ps. Readers on Mastodon kind of platforms, which limit amount of photos in the post, you can see all the photos at https://jasonrobinson.me/streams/tag/jasontravels/

Kenny Drew Trio If You Could See Me Now

1 In Your Own Sweet Way 00:00
2 If You Could See Me Now 07:27
3 All Souls Here 11:24
4 I'm Old Fashioned 16:40
5 Free Flight 22:32
6 Run Away ( Take 3 ) 28:41
7 Summer Night (Take 1) 34:32
8 A Stranger In Paradise 38:26
9 Prelude To A Kiss 46:16
10 This Is The Moment 51:18
11 Oleo 59:15

Credits
Bass – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
Drums – Albert "Tootie" Heath
Piano – Kenny Drew
Producer – Nils Winther
Recorded By – Freddy Hansson
Recorded at Rosenberg Studio, Copenhagen May 21 & 22 1974.

#KennyDrew #Niels-HenningØrstedPedersen #jazz #music #Copenhagen #Denmark

Finally I am out and about again, an it is Copenhagen Jazz Festival these days. Friday my wife and I choose a local and very young piano trio whose records we have enjoyed a lot: Little North.

It was steaming hot (my comfort limit is 22°C), but they really played beautifully and I had a very cold beer. Same sound and tight, concentrated improvisations as we knew from the records I bought on Bandcamp. In the second set there was one, very long, very complicated ... erhm ... movement, where I had to whisper to my wife that it probably was entitled, "Lost in the Northern Jazzmark", but all in all a killer concert by some incredible, but still humble young musicians, who couldn't hide their surprise that the concert had been sold out. (The fate of the jazz-man and -woman who has played for empty night clubs and uninterested party people their whole life).

Their sound is both new and still very traditional. There is a certain sound of Nordic jazz and these blokes has both Niels Henning Ørsted-Pedersen and Jan Johansson in them while also doing all sorts of new things. Well, it was great!

Yesterday we were at a small concert at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory with the slovak singer Sisa Feher, very much pregnant. Very charming. On the last picture you can see the braids of my daughter :) Her mother make those and get high praise from all the African women in Copenhagen.

#music #festival #Copenhagen #jazz #CopenhagenJazzFestival #life #leisure #beer #LittleNorth #SisaFeher

The walk of the young trees

Every day I walk for about an hour in my neighbourhood called, Nørrebro. Today, in the street called Asminderødgade, I saw some young ash trees which for some reason grabbed my attention. I have passed them many times without ever really looking at them, but today was different.

Here they are. The ash trees of Asminderødgade

The ash trees have had a hard time the last many years because of an evil fungi that has killed many of them. But I read once that they have found a variant that can withstand this threat and maybe these are of that resistant sort.

The same trees from another angle

The space beneath is a chaotic bicycle parking lot. It has been very windy these last couple of days so everything is in disarray.

Here you can see the roots of the trees messing with the pavement.

The weather today was sunny, rainy, sunny again, dark, light, dark again. I started to take some photos of other trees as I walked on. Most of them young trees so you can appreciate the work of the local municipality gardeners.

Here are some newly planted trees at Nørrebro station, where there has been a lot of construction going on in connection with the new underground city ring metro.

Here's an older platanus tree in Arresøgade. The platanus is not really fit for the cold and windy Danish weather, but it is thriving in cities where it can get shelter among the tall buildings.

A young oak tree in Guldbergsgade.

And another oak tree in the same street with a cosy place for the locals.

The beautiful horse chestnut is quite common. This one also in Guldbergsgade.

The square where both Sjællandsgade Church, the old Bathing house and Guldbergsgade School is situated. A lot of newly planted trees here. In 50 years time it will become a stately place.

To finish off I have a picture of the trees of the graveyard, Assistens Kirkegård. In there you will find some very old trees some which goes back to the founding in 1760. Many famous people lies here. The physicist Niels Bohr, the writer Hans Christian Anderson, Philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and many more. The trees in there are beautiful and old, but I didn't go in there today as my walk had become the walk of the young trees. Maybe I'll go take some photos from in there another day.

#Walk #walking #trees #young #ash #platanus #oak #horsechestnut #Nørrebro #Copenhagen #Denmark

It has been a busy day, but every day I walk 4 km to get back in shape (the distance is slowly increased and I plan to get up to 8-9 km :)

So this small post is just to show you something I noticed today while walking through the street called Thor's street in the neighbourhood called Nørrebro (The coolest neighbourhood in the world according to some).

People in this country is about 180 cm in height (me for example) but up to 2 metres is not uncommon. So many people will have to bend down to enter these buildings. I am not sure why Thor's Street have such low doors. It is not common in the rest of the area.

#architecture #Copenhagen #Doors #door #Nørrebro #Thor #street