Pictured above is Katy Ayers, a college student in Nebraska in a canoe that she grew herself.
Yes, grew. It's made of mushrooms. She made a wooden frame, then, with the assistance of local mushroom grower Ash Gordon, grew a mushroom body around it. NBC News describes the process:
They first built a wooden skeleton and a hammock-like structure to suspend the boat-shaped form in the air.
They next sandwiched the boat’s skeleton with mushroom spawn and let nature take over.
For two weeks, the fledgling canoe hung inside a special growing room in Gordon’s facility, where temperatures ranged between 80 and 90 degrees and the humidity hovered between 90 to 100 percent. The last step in the process was to let the 100-pound boat dry in the Nebraska sun.
The entire project cost $500. The canoe has been on the water three times, including once with two people inside. It's in good shape and is technically still alive, spawning more mushrooms.
-via Dave Barry | Photo: Katy Ayers