By Hundreds of feet below Germany Valley’s lush farmland sits an extensive system of caves and a threatened ecosytem. Pulling off U.S. Route 33 into Germany Valley, visitors enter a valley of farmland, dotted by farm buildings and cradled by the lush hills. Reminiscent of landscapes found throughout its namesake, the
The Miracle Mushroom
West Virginia is home to nearly 1,700 species of mushrooms and larger fungi—among them, the enigmatic morel. Old growth forests are noisy this time of year. Emerging quickly from a monochrome blanket of snow and ice, the landscape seems to wake up all at once in a flash of green
