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A review by rupl
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets
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.