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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4.8
31 reviews
dalton blackwell
May 2, 2023
Wonderful and inspiring for future generations of conservationists and those that study in the hopes of repairing and maintaining our ecosystem. This book offers incredible insight and knowledge that is truly invaluable that words cannot express.
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A Google user
September 24, 2012
I have bought the book at a bookstore read it at least 3-4 times, Stamets in my opinion is one of the best if not the best author and advocate on not just the understanding of mycology but fungi as overall understanding of the entire feild of all varietys and types of fungi medical edible medicinal. This book produces a wide variety of outdoor cultivation procedures , farming methods with statistics on strains n producing combinations of wood types best used. However indoors cult get his mush cultivator boo
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A Google user
June 13, 2013
Amazing and incredibly informative. Check out his TED talk for more stuff. If you're a budding mycologist, this is a must read!
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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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