BOULDER MUSHROOM IN THE PRESS
Check Out Our Feature in Peaks to Prairie: A Free Range Films Documentary
Peaks to Prairie explores the intricate connections between mountain ecosystems and grassland communities, highlighting the vital role of regenerative solutions in restoring landscapes. Boulder Mushroom is honored to be featured in a powerful documentary by Free Range Films that explores regenerative solutions for restoring our landscapes. Dive into the film to see how mycology is playing a crucial role in ecosystem resilience, wildfire recovery, and sustainable land management.
Can mushrooms prevent megafires?
By: Stephen Robert Miller | July 10, 2023
“If you’ve gone walking in the woods out West lately, you might have encountered a pile of sticks. Or perhaps hundreds of them, heaped as high as your head and strewn about the forest like Viking funeral pyres awaiting a flame.
These slash piles are an increasingly common sight in the American West, as land managers work to thin out unnaturally dense sections of forests...” Continue Reading
Boulder County backs fungi research for wildfire solutions
By: Courtney Yuen | March 12, 2025
“Mushrooms might be the latest tool in helping to fight wildfires.
Boulder Mushroom is researching fungi’s ability to decompose wildfire fuels like fallen trees and dead grass that can ignite and burn for days.
“We have an epidemic of wildfires largely due to a legacy of fire suppression which essentially means that forests which are…” Continue Reading
How mushroom compost can help stop wildfires in forests
By: Rob Young| July 22, 2023
“Researchers in Boulder in Colorado in the United States say mushrooms can prevent fires taking hold in forests.
Bacteria from the mushrooms, known as fungi can turn piles of wood – which could help flames spread – into soil, whch can’t.
Zach Hedstrom is a mushroom expert in Colorado. He told Newshour’s Rob Young why the fungi he ...” Listen Here
Fungi firefighters? A Boulder mushroom company’s solution to wildfires is quintessentially Colorado
By: Emma VandenEinde| January 17, 2024
“More than 3 million Coloradans live in the Wildland-Urban Interface, positioning their homes at greater risk from the smoke and flames of wildfires. As more people live, work and play in in these areas, preventing wildfires becomes increasingly...” Listen Here
Mycelium: Nature’s Recyclers
By: Jonnah Perkins Photos by: Beau Dahler| January 16, 2025
“Zach Hedstrom’s journey of leading Boulder Mushroom is as deeply philosophical as it is grounded in practical science. This past summer, Mad Agriculture’s Director of Media, Jonnah Perkins, traveled around Boulder County with Zach, documenting his transformative approach to fungi and...” Continue Reading
Mushrooms to be deployed as a weapon against wildfires
By: Tim Drugan | January 22, 2023
“If Boulder Mushroom achieves what it’s setting out to, the foothills around Boulder could soon sport a whole lot more mushrooms. Fungi could become a major tool for making Boulder’s forests less prone to wildfires by turning branches, logs and wood chips into healthy soil — instead of fuel for future fire they would be otherwise…” Continue Reading
Meet Zach Hedstrom, the entrepreneur fighting US wildfires with mushrooms
By: Keiran Southern | July 17, 2023
“Massive wildfires that have raged across the American west in recent years have caused untold damage to the environment, incinerating douglas firs in the Rocky Mountains and ancient sequoias in the Sierra Nevada, and destroying towns and villages.
But amid the carnage an unlikely saviour may have emerged: a tiny fungus...” Continue Reading
Colorado’s Latest Tool to Fight Forest Fires: Mushrooms
By: Michael Booth| October 26, 2023
“Zach Hedstrom kneels on the forest floor, scraping at the 2-inch-deep duff of lodgepole pine needles and pine cones disassembled by squirrels, looking to see whether ghostly fibers of mycelium are quietly consuming.
This would be a good thing...” Continue Reading
Wildfire Mushrooms for Wildfire Mitigation
By: Shelley Schlender | October 22, 2024
“Wild, local mushrooms can break down deadwood into healthy soil, and they can do this surprisingly fast. Used correctly, fungi are an emerging way to reduce the forest tinder that makes mega-wildfires more likely. But there’s a wrong way and a right way to use mushrooms for mitigation Our experts today are Jeff Ravage of the Coldfire Project and Zach Hedstrom of...” Listen Here
Cultivating solutions
By: Will Brendza | March 31, 2022
“Zach Hedstrom unzips the door of a climate-controlled grow tent—one of several lined up inside Boulder Mushroom, a fungi farm in north Boulder. Within the tent, shelf over shelf of fruiting blue oyster mushrooms are exploding out of substrate blocks like bouquets. Pale fluorescent light reflects off the saucer-shaped gray-blue caps.
Hedstrom picks one of the blocks up and tilts…” Continue Reading
Fighting wildfires with fungi
By: Becca Warner | January 03, 2024
“In our climate-changed world, forest fires are becoming bigger and more frequent. But the methods used to prevent them cause problems of their own.
Thankfully, as it so often does, the humble mushroom might offer a solution.
In the first half of the 20th century, authorities in the US aimed for quick...” Continue Reading
Fighting Mega-Fires With Mushrooms
By: Meryl Phair|March 15, 2024
“In the foothills of Boulder, Colorado, root-like structures of mushrooms — known as mycelia — are stretching out their limbs. Growing in bags of wood chips at Boulder Mushroom (a hub of mycological research, innovation, and fungi), these thread-sized organisms have a daunting challenge ahead. An innovative project, led by Boulder Mushroom founder ...” Continue Reading
Lets Connect!
Boulder Mushroom is proud to be at the forefront of innovative, mycelium-based solutions for forest health, fire mitigation, and regenerative practices. If you’re a journalist, storyteller, researcher, or creative interested in covering our work we’d love to hear from you!
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Reach out to us at in info@bouldermushroom.com or use our contact form to start the conversation.
We’re always open to sharing our story, diving into science, or brainstorming new ways to grow together.