Mycelium Running:

How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

Ten Speed Press, Oct 1, 2005 - Cooking - 339 pages

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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First impression, photos are wonderful, intro ordinary. I pass on the mystical side of things but the obligatory glance further into the book looks as though there ideas to look forward too. There is ... Read full review

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Surprisingly interesting and fun book about mushrooms. Helping to save the world might be a little overblown. It does cover plenty of beneficial and tasty aspects of mushrooms, plus some numerous ... Read full review

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About the author (2005)

\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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Title	Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
Author	Paul Stamets
Edition	illustrated
Publisher	Ten Speed Press, 2005
ISBN	1580085792, 9781580085793
Length	339 pages
Subjects	Cooking › Specific Ingredients › Vegetables Cooking / Specific Ingredients / Vegetables Gardening / Organic Gardening / Reference Gardening / Vegetables Medical / Pharmacy Nature / Plants / Mushrooms Science / Environmental Science Science / Life Sciences / Ecology

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