“Mushrooms are wonderful, magical creatures,” Arthur says in the episode. You can watch it above.
Together with Stephan Roest from NH he walks around Thijsse’s Hof in Bloemendaal. It’s a hundred years old this year.
“Fungi break down dead plants and trees so that building materials become available again. Underground they are messengers that connect trees with each other. The largest known organism in the world is a fungus; it is many square kilometers in size!”
Arthur has written a book about it: ‘What Mushrooms say about it’.