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Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

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This is truly an inspirational book. Being an avid gardener but not knowing much about mushrooms, I was mesmerized by this new world which was opened to me by Paul Stamets. What I found particularly fascinating is the incredible usefulness of mushrooms beyond their gourmet aspect, or even their medicinal worth, as possible saviours of the mess we've gotten ourselves into when it comes to environmental degredation. This book (and I'm not even finished reading it yet - I can't seem to put it down) has inspired me to try my own experiments with growing mushrooms. It's filled with great photos and useful step-by-step instructions. The presentation of the material and quality of the book are exemplary. I'm looking forward to spring to look for mycellium and attempt identifying mushrooms and growing them.

This is the book I wish I had the money to buy multiple copies of to send to friends and give to our local library and schools.
A well researched and thoroughly readable scientific book with great respect for the wonders of the earth. I didn't know how little I understood about the relationships between mycellium, plants and animals until I read Paul Stamets wonderful and spiritual book.

Stamets conveys his passion and vast understanding of the world of mushrooms, mycelium, and the symbiotic relations we live and are capable of developing in this fantastic resourse. Mycelium Running branches into areas of fungal restoration, cultivation, mushroom basics, advanced techniques and fungal mechanisms, etc. The epic content of knowledge therein, coupled with Stamets higher understanding of our coexistance with all things natural make Mycelium Running a must have for anyone interested in the incredible possibilties we have as a species; if we fuse our living and understanding with this most powerful of organisms.

was just looking for a general book on mushrooms and how they would benefit a garden and i have learned soo much more and my head is spinning with ideas and possibilities....i will probably buy Mr Stamets's other books now. and a few others he recommended

A fascinating incredibly informed and superbly written overview of the poorly known power of mycelia, the true organisms that mushrooms as we know them are merely the reproductive organs of. Very comprehensive and enlightening to those who are merely curious about an unpopular segment of nature (here I mean not as commonly popular as big game or trophy fish, let alone birds, bees and butterflies) as well as those who have a serious interest in the usefulness of fungi (e.g, medicinal uses, production for the market of edibles, detoxification of contaminanated soils, augmentation of forest productivity).

And, as I said, a great read!

Excellent book for everyone interested in mushrooms in general, their culture or uses in the field of mycoremediation. Very well illustrated too.

great and informative book, lots of 'applications for mushrooms' that I did not know of. Would like some more suggestions about where to get spores though.