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Oct 01, 2005 | ISBN 9781580085793

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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

Table Of Contents

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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