HOW MUSHROOMS CAN HELP SAVE THE WORLD
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
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.
As a physician and practitioner of integrative medicine, I find
this book exciting and optimistic because it suggests new,
nonharmful possibilities for solving serious problems that affect
our health and the health of our environment. Paul Stamets has come
up with those possibilities by observing an area of the natural
world most of us have ignored. He has directed his attention to
mushrooms and mycelium and has used his unique intelligence and
intuition to make discoveries of great practical import. I think
you will find it hard not to share the enthusiasm and passion he
brings to these pages.
--From the foreword by Andrew Weil, MD, author of Eating Well for
Optimum Health
“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
“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
“This is the first book to give the Kingdom of the Fungi its proper
place in the scheme of things. It is the most important book on
nature that I’ve seen in years.”
--Gary Lincoff, author of National Audubon Society Field Guide to
North American Mushrooms
“A paradigm-changing book. Stamets’s visionary insights are leading
to a whole new understanding of how mushrooms, scarcely seen and
rarely appreciated, regulate the earth’s ecosystems.“
--John Todd, founder and president of Ocean Arks International
“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
“This gospel of fungi contains crucial pragmatic solutions showing
us how to work with nature in order to heal nature.”
--Kenny Ausubel, founder and co-executive director of Bioneers
“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
“Stamets’s best work to date, Mycelium Running provides a wealth of
information showing how fungal mycelia and mushrooms can profoundly
improve the quality of human life. Should be mandatory reading for
government policy makers.”
--S. T. Chang, professor emeritus, Chinese University of Hong Kong
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