Stalker chanced upon this snippet from earlier in the year on the BBC website. Peter Watson keeps popping up in different media slots, plugging away at bringing mushroom growing skills to the people – fair play to him. " An organic mushroom grower from North Yorkshire is hoping to pass on his skills to others with funding from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). Peter Watson, owner of Gourmet Woodland Mushrooms, in Pickering, has secured a grant to help people cultivate edible fungus in their own kitchens. He is developing a pack, which will let people grow mushrooms in their fridges. And he says that while they may sound like something from a student's fridge, these latest examples are edible. Rare species Mr Watson said the fridge mushroom is based on a winter mushroom and is perfectly safe. "We were awarded an innovation grant from the DTI for this because it's the first time the domestic fridge has actually been used for food production rather than growing mould on food which is out of production." Mr Watson has already diversified into showing landowners how to grow mushrooms on freshly cut logs and is currently testing a system of cultivating rare morel mushrooms on charcoal."
