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Mycelium Running How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

by Paul Stamets
Mycelium Running How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

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Mycelium Running is a manual for the mycological rescue of the planet. That’s right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment, and in this groundbreaking text from mushroom expert Paul Stamets, you’ll find out how.

The basic science goes like this: Microscopic cells called "mycelium" — the fruit of which are mushrooms — recycle carbon, nitrogen, and other essential elements as they break down plant and animal debris in the creation of rich new soil. What Stamets has discovered is that we can capitalize on mycelium’s digestive power and target it to decompose toxic wastes and pollutants (mycoremediation), catch and reduce silt from streambeds and pathogens from agricultural watersheds (mycofiltration), control insect populations (mycopesticides), and generally enhance the health of our forests and gardens (mycoforestry and myco-gardening).

In this comprehensive guide, you’ll find chapters detailing each of these four exciting branches of what Stamets has coined "mycorestoration," as well as chapters on the medicinal and nutritional properties of mushrooms, inoculation methods, log and stump culture, and species selection for various environmental purposes. Heavily referenced and beautifully illustrated, this book is destined to be a classic reference for bemushroomed generations to come.

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"This visionary and practical book should be an instant classic in the emerging science of how to use nature’s wisdom and fecundity to rescue the earth and ourselves from the unwelcome consequences of human cleverness." — Amory B. Lovins, chief executive officer of Rocky Mountain Institute

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"In his respectful and casual way, Paul brings depth and clarity to the complexity of fungi and its place in the natural order, all the while engaging us in fungi knowledge for healing our planet." — Guujaaw, president of the Haida Council, Haida Nation

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"This is the kind of book I love: highly factual and practical and mixed with the spiritual content that sets the great writers apart from all the rest." — John Norris, former deputy commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and founder of the Bioterrorism Institute

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"Stamets is a visionary emissary from the fungus kingdom to our world, and the message he’s brought back in this book, about the possibilities fungi hold for healing the environment, will fill you with wonder and hope." – Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire

About the Author

Paul Stamets, founder of Fungi Perfecti (www.fungi.com), has been a dedicated mycologist for more than thirty years. He is the 1998 recipient of the Collective Heritage Institute’s Bioneers Award and the 1999 recipient of the Founder of a New Northwest Award from the Pacific Rim Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils. Stamets has written five books on mushroom cultivation, use, and identification and numerous articles and scholarly papers on medicinal, culinary, and psycho-active mushrooms. His books Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms and The Mushroom Cultivator (co-author) have long been hailed as the definitive texts on mushroom cultivation.

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Contents

 

Foreword . . . . . viii

Preface . . . . . x

Acknowledgments . . . . . xi

 

PART I  THE MYCELIAL MIND . . . . . 1

   1   Mycelium as Nature’s Internet . . . . . 2

   2   The Mushroom Life Cycle . . . . . 12

   3   Mushrooms in Their Natural Habitats . . . . . 19

   4   The Medicinal Mushroom Forest . . . . . 35

 

PART II  MYCORESTORATION . . . . . 55

   5    Mycofiltration . . . . . 58

   6    Mycoforestry . . . . . 69

   7    Mycoremediation . . . . . 86

   8    Mycopesticides . . . . . 114

 

PART III  GROWING MYCELIA AND MUSHROOMS . . . . . 125

   9    Inoculation Methods: Spores, Spawn, and Stem Butts . . . . . 126

   10    Cultivating Mushrooms on Straw and Leached Cow Manure . . . . . 161

   11    Cultivating Mushrooms on Logs and Stumps . . . . . 172

   12   Gardening with Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms . . . . . 187

   13    Nutritional Properties of Mushrooms . . . . . 201

   14    Magnificent Mushrooms: The Cast of Species . . . . . 210

 

Glossary . . . . . 305

Resources . . . . . 309

Bibliography . . . . . 311

Photography and Artwork Credits . . . . . 329

Index . . . . . 330


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Olive , October 19, 2019
This book was eye opening to just how important mushrooms are to life on Earth, to the interconnection of plants, to the world healing itself, and to gardening! I'm so glad I got the chance to read it.

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bdebasitis , January 11, 2011
We need to start finding ways to help nature heal itself and us. This book is a great introduction on how fungi can do just that.

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Sher June , January 01, 2010
When research biologist Paul Stamets suggests that fungi can help save the world, he is absolutely serious. In fact, he contends they can rescue it in several different ways. First, there are medicines derived from fungi, probably more than we can imagine. There are fungi for insect pest control. Fungi can absorb and digest toxins from their environments---toxics as diverse as heavy metals, PCB's, oil spills, and radioactivity. Fungal partnerships can revolutionize our farming methods. And we can heal the ecosystems of damaged forest lands by introducing selected fungal species into those environments. Paul Stamets is one of the ecological visionaries of our time. He is revolutionizing the ways we look at fungi.

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Valerie Lynne , September 14, 2008
I am hoping to read it soon

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tdelangre , August 08, 2008
Wow! I am ready to join-up in the race to save the world. Already fascinated by the incredible variety of mushrooms I have encountered and being an edible mushroom hunter, Paul Stamets has amazed me with newfound knowledge of the power and importance of this ubiquitous life-form. I believe he has the answer.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9781580085793
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
10/01/2005
Publisher:
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
Pages:
356
Height:
.90IN
Width:
7.50IN
Thickness:
1.00
Number of Units:
1
Illustration:
Yes
Copyright Year:
2005
UPC Code:
2801580085795
Author:
Paul Stamets
Subject:
Fungi -- Ecology.
Subject:
Mushroom culture
Subject:
Gardening-Organic Gardening

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