Mix & Match any of Paul Stamets' books for a discount price!
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SPECIAL OFFER: Buy all five of Paul Stamets' books for only $125.00 plus shipping!
Growing Gourmet & Medicinal Mushrooms • The Mushroom Cultivator • Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World • MycoMedicinals® • Mycelium Running
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Newly Expanded Edition!
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save The World
This book is a manual for the mycological rescue of the planet. Setting the stage for the mycorestoration revolution, Mycelium Running unveils new methods for growing mushrooms, generating mycelium, and implanting mushroom colonies into the environment. Capitalizing on the digestive power of mycelium, this pioneering book shows how to strengthen sustainability of habitats while providing a multitude of biological benefits. Based upon the premise that habitats and humans (animals) have immune systems, and that mushrooms are the beneficial bridges for both, Mycelium Running marks the dawn of a new era: the use of mycelial membranes for ecological health. Linking mushroom cultivation, permaculture, ecoforestry, bioremediation and soil enhancement, Stamets makes the case that mushroom farms can be reinvented as healing arts centers, steering ecological evolution for the benefit of humans living in harmony with its inhabitants. Four components of mycorestoration are described in detail:
- Mycofiltration: the filtration of biological and chemical pathogens as well as controlling erosion.
- Mycoforestry and mycogardening: the use of mycelium for companion cultivation for the benefit and protection of plants.
- Mycoremediation: the use of mycelium for decomposing toxic wastes and pollutants.
- Mycopesticides: the use of mycelium for attracting and controlling insect populations.
The newly updated version contains more pages, more full-color photos, and new information on a wide variety of mycological topics, including:
- Prototaxites, a giant fungus dotting the landscapes of Earth and was the tallest organism on land 420 million years ago
- The role of oxalic acid and calcium oxalates in sequestering carbon dioxide and building the carbon bank
- Psathyrella aquatica nom. prov., the first underwater mushroom
- Gamma radiation giving fuels the metabolism of fungi analogous to light energizing plants
- New information on antimicrobial properties of mushrooms
Moreover, Mycelium Running has chapters on nutrition, medicinal properties, log and stump culture, natural culture, using easy to use and low-tech techniques, and much more. In total, 28 species are fully described. Heavily referenced and beautifully illustrated, this book is destined to be a classic reference for generations to come. Softcover, 356 pages, with over 360 color photographs.
MMR $35.00
Expanded Mycelium Running Limited Edition: hardbound and embossed, boxed, serially numbered 1–200. Each copy is signed by the author.
MMR/LTD $195.00
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| June 24, 2005: Paul Stamets completes the final edits for Mycelium Running on Shaman's Bluff, Cortes Island, British Columbia, Canada. (Photo by Cynthia Miller) |
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"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."
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–Gary Lincoff, author of The National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms and former president of the North American Mycological Association
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"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."
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–Michael Pollan, author of Botany of Desire
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"Stamets has done a unique public service. 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."
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–Amory B. Lovins, CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute
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"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."
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–John Norris, former deputy commissioner and COO of the US FDA, founder of The Bioterrorism Institute and member of adjunct faculty Harvard School of Public Health
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"A paradigm-changing book. Stamets' visionary insights are leading to a whole new understanding of how mushrooms, scarcely seen and rarely appreciated, regulate the earth's ecosystems."
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–John Todd, Ph.D., University of Vermont and John Todd Ecological Design
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"The gospel of fungi containing crucial pragmatic solutions showing us how to work with nature in order to heal nature."
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–Kenny Ausubel, founder and co-executive director of Bioneers
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"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."
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–Guujaaw, President of the Haida Council, Haida Nation
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"Stamets' 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."
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–S.T. Chang, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms, 3rd Edition
By Paul Stamets. Expanded to 574 pages and more than 500 photographs and diagrams, this fully updated edition of the internationally acclaimed mushroom grower's guide adds 6 more mushroom species to the 25 species already described. Advanced cultivation techniques for Agaricus brasiliensis, Pleurotus tuberregium, Sparassis crispa, Trametes versicolor, Tremella fuciformis and Agaricus brunnescens ("Portobello") mushrooms are have been added to the Third Edition. This book covers in detail state-of-the-art commercial cultivation techniques, liquid culture inoculation methods, mycological landscaping, growing room and lab designs, troubleshooting and more. Commonly referred to as "The New Testament" by amateur and professional mycologists alike. The best book on mushroom cultivation just keeps getting better!
MGGM $44.95
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“Thank you Paul Stamets for your two great books, they allowed me to start an 800 lb./day Agaricus farm in no more than 7 months.”
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Nazem Ghandour
Le Champignon Parfait
Tripoli, Lebanon
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“We have been producing the Himematsutake in Brazil for more than a year, and that wouldn't have been as successful as it is without two of your books: ‘Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms’ and ‘The Mushroom Cultivator’.”
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Rodrigo Henriques
Royal Sun
Asa Norte, Brazil
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The Limited Edition of
Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
This handsome, hardcover edition of the essential text of mushroom cultivation comes bound in luxurious forest-green leatherette with gold-embossed type. Comes in its own case. Limited to 100 copies, this is a true collector's item for the bemushroomed.
MGGM3/LTD $195.00
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The Mushroom Cultivator
By Paul Stamets and J.S. Chilton. This book details the cultivation of 16 edible (including the Button/Portobello mushrooms) and psychoactive species and control measures for 40 genera of contaminants. 415 pages, with 249 black and white photographs, diagrams and scanning electron micrographs, this book is highly reviewed and used throughout the world as a mycological textbook. Known throughout the world as "The Grower's Bible." Softcover. As Doctor Alexander Smith once said, "This book should be in every mycological laboratory."
MCUL $34.95
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Growing Gourmet & Medicinal Mushrooms is designed to be used as a companion guide to The Mushroom Cultivator.
What does The Mushroom Cultivator have that Growing Gourmet & Medicinal Mushrooms does not?
- Formulas for producing high quality compost
- control measures and descriptions for 40 genera of contaminants including bacteria, molds and insects
- descriptions for the cultivation of four Psilocybe species
These two volumes, in tandem, are encyclopedic in scope and are a must for the bemushroomed cultivator.
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Shiitake Grower's Handbook:
The Art and Science of Mushroom Cultivation
By Paul Przybylowicz and John Donoghue. The authors of this book have done a fine job of outlining the steps needed for selecting, inoculating, curing and cropping logs. Each step is referenced so that the devotee can pursue additional data via the extensive bibliography. (Please note that this book does not address sterile culture or spawn generation techniques, assuming that readers will buy their spawn from a third party.) Now includes a chapter on the production and fruiting of sawdust blocks. We welcome this contribution to mushroom culture. 232 pages.
MSGH $24.95
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Growing Shiitake Mushrooms In a Continental Climate
By M.E. Kozak and J. Krawczyk. Two Shiitake growers have pooled their experiences in this collaborative work. Commercial Shiitake growers have praised it for its practical, direct approach. 112 pages. Softcover.
MGSM $15.95
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Plants From Test Tubes
By Lydiane Kyte. This book describes in depth the media formulations, cloning techniques and methods for expanding a single plant into thousands. 34 species of plants are detailed. This expanded edition introduces new developments in biotechnology, such as genetic engineering and cell culture. It explains clearly how to set up a propagating laboratory, from a hobbyist’s kitchen to an elaborate commercial enterprise. 240 pages. Hardcover.
MPFT $29.95
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