'People think they'll smell but they don't': inside the Namibian homes built from mushrooms

A sustainable project aims to repurpose encroacher bush to create building blocks to solve Namibia's housing crisis"People think the house would smell because the blocks are made of all-natural products, but it doesn't smell," says Kristine Haukongo. "Sometimes, there is a small touch of wood, but otherwise it's completely odourless."Haukongo is the senior cultivator at the research group MycoHab and her job is pretty unusual. She grows oyster mushrooms on chopped-down invasive weeds before the waste is turned into large, solid brown slabs - mycoblocks - that will be used, it's hoped, to build Namibian homes. Continue reading...