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srvest's review
4.0
A LOT of information on mushrooms from the mushroom expert. It gets a little technical at times but still a good read.
rupl's review
hopeful
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
5.0
An amazing look into the kingdom of fungi. The book starts out with some wild ideas about mycelium, but backs up its claims with real science and hard experimental evidence. The whole book is peppered with large color photos which aid understanding and make the material more accessible and interesting.
Seemingly magical properties of mycelium, such as the ability to clean up oil spills, are demonstrated and explained with plenty of peer-reviewed citations.
Part informational, part practical, the book is divided into several sections: informational sections about various types of mycelium, recommendations to enhance your vegetable garden’s output, growing guides to help you start running mycelium yourself, and a gourmet/medicinal mushrooms section with field ID, nutritional/medicinal info, and growing tips for each mushroom.
This book was really inspiring and lives up to its claim that mushrooms can help save the world.
Seemingly magical properties of mycelium, such as the ability to clean up oil spills, are demonstrated and explained with plenty of peer-reviewed citations.
Part informational, part practical, the book is divided into several sections: informational sections about various types of mycelium, recommendations to enhance your vegetable garden’s output, growing guides to help you start running mycelium yourself, and a gourmet/medicinal mushrooms section with field ID, nutritional/medicinal info, and growing tips for each mushroom.
This book was really inspiring and lives up to its claim that mushrooms can help save the world.
bodiesofwater's review
5.0
myco (mushroom) water filtration, oil clean-up, mycopesticides, mycogardening...
nodogsonthemoon's review against another edition
adventurous
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
4.5
bplache's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
slow-paced
3.0
Many insights into the life of mushrooms, and how we can benefit from their presence in our environment.
actuallyacorgi's review
4.0
Have you ever wished you had a mycologist uncle who would rant to you about his love for mushrooms? Look no further than this book! Far from the most scientifically rigorous book about mushrooms, Paul Stamets makes up for it with pure passion and a refreshing do-it-yourself attitude toward science. A must read for any amateur mycologist.
mcmoots's review against another edition
3.0
Stamets knows his mushrooms, but he also goes off the fuckin' rails for like a third of the book. What kind of mushroom do you have to eat to understand how mycelium is like dark matter and hurricanes? This "whoa far out" attitude carries over into extravagant optimism about the potential applications for mushrooms in medicine or bioremediation. There are lots of possibilities, sure, but particularly with the bioremediation stuff I really want to know what the barriers to adoption are for this supposedly cheap and effective remedy. Stamets suggests that either people don't know how to grow mushrooms or they're just fuddy-duddies who don't want to try new things, neither of which strikes me as plausible.
Skepticism aside though, this book gave me a ton of cool ideas for propagating mushrooms and adding them to my garden.
Skepticism aside though, this book gave me a ton of cool ideas for propagating mushrooms and adding them to my garden.