Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
by Paul Stamets · first published 1993
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…golden. Also, none of this is that hard if you read and learn! The mushrooms will tell you exactly where you went wrong, and there's TONS of info out there to get the hobby grower started. I highly suggest Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms by Paul Stamets, and reading up on The Shroomery (lot of good stuff in the gourmet forum, some stuff that's common between gourmet and magic, like agar or grain prep is in the other cultivation forum).
on “Smart mushroom growing device for beginners” ↗Agreed! I spend a couple hours a week packing bags basically and have found it as a way to relax. I read Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms by Stamets and subject myself to public shaming on /r/mushroomgrowers, got spawn from North Spore (though there are other several good ones I can recommend if you email me, would probably not recommend…
on “The Secret Lives of Fungi” ↗If you don't have it already his book "Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms" is an indispensable guide for growing many species of mushrooms, including morels, at any scale. Coincidentally, it contains his observation of bees sucking on King Stropharia mycelium before the insight…
on “The Fungal Evangelist Who Would Save the Bees” ↗…The Visual Display of Quantitative Information The Rust Programming Language Progressive Web Apps Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability Farming the Woods Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms Affinity Designer Workbook The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Walden A Guide for Desert and Dryland Restoration Ernest Hemingway On Writing The Two Hands of God (Alan Watts)…
on “Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?” ↗…PubMed related to a medical condition. So both of these are done out of issues I'm facing in life. Books that I've read recently are also nonfiction, but more related to hobbies and skills. Stuff like Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms, Natural Pest and Disease Control, and Defensive Tactics. Maybe if you want to start reading more, you can pick shorter material. If you like technology and nostalgia/unoffical history, then you might…
on “Ask HN: How much do you read and what do you get from it?” ↗Okay, but this has been known for a while hasn’t it? I remember reading a statement like this in “Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms” and that book was published in 1993. Is the reason this is note worthy the % amount calculated by the study?
on “Study shows inoculating soil with mycorrhizal fungi can increase yield by 40%” ↗