Old Man of the Woods
Explore the woods with us. Appreciate, Identify and cook wild mushrooms and other edibles.
Old man of the woods is the name of a mushroom that we adore.
Contents are:
written by L., the wife
narrated by RJ, the husband
filmed and edited by both
Also visit our website www.fungusid.com to identify mushrooms with pics!
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Be cautious & always refer to multiple reliable sources before consuming any wild edibles!
Old Man of the Woods
Good news OMOW friends: fungusid.com is back!!! It’s been long overdue, but it’s better now. We trained it with another 100 species, including those common in the West! Now this little tool knows more than 400 species. It will greatly facilitate your mushroom identification process by narrowing down possibilities. But remember, you will still need to do your research in order to be 100% sure. No tool can do it for you.
Now enjoy the upcoming mushroom season with your ID assistant, and don’t forget to share it with your friends!
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Old Man of the Woods
Dear viewers: Our mushroom identification website fungusid.com is unavailable as of today, September 5, 2021. The website has been deleted by the DigitalOcean due to an outstanding balance of $15 back in August 1, 2021. Unfortunately, all the notifications they sent out went to Gmail’s Promotion tab thus were unnoticed by us. We communicated with DigitalOcean, but everything has been permanently deleted thus cannot be restored.
This is heartbreaking news to us, but we will try our best to rebuild the website as our time allows. Hopefully, fungusid.com will be online again this fall. Please bear with us during this time. Thank you, for your understanding and long-time support.
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Old Man of the Woods
Youtube censorship updates: our video "Mushroom Identification for Beginners: Spore print Making," published on March 2020, was removed by Youtube on Jan 23, 2021. Censors believe it violates their “harmful and dangerous policy” and have rejected our appeals. For the record, the video only talks about how to make mushroom spore prints as the very first step of identifying wild mushrooms. I have to stretch the concerning policy support.google.com/youtube/answer/2801964 a lot to imagine how this particular video can be interpreted as unsafe. Any video could be potentially dangerous by the same standard. Youtube could only fulfill its job of making itself “a safe place for all” when it removed all contents published on the platform. But dictators are not to be reasoned with, and we knew that well enough. Hard not to see where this Youtopia is going. — L.
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Email notification of this well-intended censorship:
Hi Old Man of the Woods,
We have reviewed your appeal for the following content: Video: Mushroom Identification for Beginners: Spore Print Making.
We reviewed your content carefully, and have confirmed that it violates our harmful and dangerous policy. We know this is probably disappointing news, but it's our job to make sure that YouTube is a safe place for all.
How this affects your channel
* We won't be putting your content back up on YouTube.
* If your appeal was for a warning, you will not be given another warning in the future.
* If your appeal was for a strike, the strike will remain on your channel.
You can find more information about warnings and strikes at the YouTube Help Center.
Sincerely,
The YouTube Team
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