
How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
by Paul Stamets
Recommended by Michael Pollan
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Nature, Hobbies, and Science.
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 mus...
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