Mycelium Running
How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
by Paul Stamets
Should I read this?
Recommended by 1 source and appears in Mushroom, Mushrooms, 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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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Mushroom, Mushrooms, and Science.
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Michael Pollan
“This is the best book on fungi since Paul Stamets?s Mycelium Running. Check it out. | This is the best book on fungi since Paul Stamets’s Mycelium Running. Check it out.”
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