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Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares: The Love, Lore, and Mystique of Mushrooms; Marley, Greg Chelsea Green Publishing 1603582142 / 9781603582148 PAPERBACK
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1603582142 Throughout history, people have had a complex and confusing relationship with mushrooms. Are fungi food or medicine, beneficial decomposers or deadly ?toadstools? ready to kill anyone foolhardy enough to eat them? In fact, there is truth in all these statements. In Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares, author Greg Marley reveals some of the wonders and mysteries of mushrooms, and our conflicting human reactions to them. With tales from around the world, Marley, a seasoned mushroom expert, explains that some cultures are mycophilic (mushroom-loving), like those of Russia and Eastern Europe, while others are intensely mycophobic (mushroom-fearing), including, the US. He shares stories from China, Japan, and Korea?where mushrooms are interwoven into the fabric of daily life as food, medicine, fable, and folklore?and from Slavic countries where whole families leave villages and cities during rainy periods of the late summer and fall and traipse into the forests for mushroom-collecting excursions. From the famous Amanita phalloides (aka ?the Death Cap?), reputed killer of Emperor Claudius in the first century AD, to the beloved chanterelle (cantharellus cibarius) known by at least eighty-nine different common names in almost twenty-five languages, Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares explores the ways that mushrooms have shaped societies all over the globe. This fascinating and fresh look at mushrooms?their natural history, their uses and abuses, their pleasures and dangers?is a splendid introduction to both fungi themselves and to our human fascination with them. From useful descriptions of the most foolproof edible species to revealing stories about hallucinogenic or poisonous, yet often beautiful, fungi, Marley?s long and passionate experience will inform and inspire readers with the stories of these dark and mysterious denizens of our forest floor.
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16.50 USD
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Field Guide to North American Truffles: Hunting, Identifying, and Enjoying the World's Most Prized Fungi; Matt Trappe; Frank Evans; James Trappe Ten Speed Press 2007 1580088627 / 9781580088626 PAPERBACK
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1580088627 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Sewn binding. 136 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. second most expensive food in the world after saffron, truffles are treasured, coveted, and savored for their mysterious and exotic flavor. This complete field guide shows chefs and fungi aficionados how to forage for and identify the wide variety of truffles that grow in temperate forests throughout North America. Written by expert horticulturalists who have studied, classified, and enjoyed truffles for decades, the FIELD GUIDE TO NORTH AMERICAN TRUFFLES makes these celebrated underground jewels accessible to all. first full-color illustrated guide to identifying North American truffles by their key features, including profiles of more than 80 species of truffles. Includes more than 80 photographs of rare and hard-to-find truffle species. Features flavor profiles, delectability index, and culinary tips for each species. Perfect size for carrying in a pocket or daypack. Reviews"It'?? s the first book of its kind, complete with photographs, cross-sectional views of indigenous truffle varieties, guides to seasonal availability, and foraging tips for hundreds of kinds of truffles (both the edible and inedible kinds), as well as tasting notes and cooking tips. "-Saveur
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Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms; Stamets, Paul Ten Speed Press 2000 1580081754 / 9781580081757 PAPERBACK
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1580081754 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 592 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. 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 "New Testament" by amateur and professional mycologists alike. best book on mushroom cultivation just keeps getting better!.
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42.00 USD
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Growing Mushrooms the Easy Way Vol. 1: Home Mushroom Cultivation with Hydrogen Peroxide; Wayne, R. Rush Myco Masters self published 2001 SPIRAL_BOUND
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New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! 38 p. Volume I of Growing Mushrooms the Easy Way is both an indispensable introduction to the use of hydrogen peroxide in mushroom culture and a general primer on basic mushroom growing. It describes techniques for preparing mushroom cultures without air filtration or sterile facilities, and without autoclaves or pressure cooking of bulk substrate. And it contains crucial information--not repeated in Volume II--on: # how peroxide works # issues of stability and safety with peroxide # how to measure peroxide concentration # the problem of peroxide-decomposing enzymes in substrate material # how to choose peroxide-compatible substrates and supplements Volume I also contains sections on: # an introduction to some commonly cultivated mushrooms # preparing and maintaining agar cultures # making grain spawn # making "Ten Minute Spawn" (a quick sawdust-based, steamed spawn medium) # a boiling water/peroxide method for preparing bulk wood pellet fuel substrate # seasonal planning # indoor vs. outdoor growing # harvesting mushrooms # troubleshooting.
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Growing Mushrooms the Easy Way Vol. II: Home Mushroom Cultivation with Hydrogen Peroxide; Wayne, R. Rush Myco Masters self published 2001 SPIRAL_BOUND
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New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! 24 pages first volume of the peroxide manual introduced a whole new approach to home mushroom cultivation, one that has gained a reputation for its ease and simplicity. manual showed how mushrooms could be grown readily without sterile facilities, air filtration, or autoclaves. Now, for growers interested in commercial cultivation, and hobby growers too..Prepare any quantity of bulk substrate at room temperature. second volume of the peroxide manual adds two ground-breaking peroxide methods that can be used to prepare as much substrate as you need without the trouble of heating and cooling. Just soak your substrate, drain, and inoculate. first method is a simple soak-and-drain procedure designed for use with materials such as straw, bagasse, dried grasses, corn stalks, cottonseed hulls, etc. You just load the substrate into a soak chamber, fill it with the appropriate solution at room temperature, soak until the proper moisture content is reached, then drain and inoculate. There's no caustic waste to worry about, no hassle with heating water or steam, and no concern about peroxide-decomposing enzymes in the substrate materials. Add water and stir. other method is an add-and-stir procedure designed for use with peroxide-compatible porous substrates like wood pellet fuel, paper fiber pellets, or (for oyster mushrooms) kiln-dried sawdust. You simply mix all your ingredients together at room temperature, then come back in a couple of hours and inoculate. There's no hurry, though--peroxide keeps the substrate from spoiling. (Refer to Volume I for important information on choosing peroxide-compatible substrates and supplements). Here's what else you'll find in Volume II: # collecting and germinating mushroom spores # an alternative to agar medium for mycelial culture and storage # screw-cap tubes (slants) as an alternative to Petri dish culture # a quick beer-based agar medium # re-using disposable Petri dishes # preparing "Ten Minute" sawdust spawn in plastic.
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28.00 USD
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Growing Wild Mushrooms: A Complete Guide to Cultivating Edible and Hallucinogenic Mushrooms; Harris, Bob Ronin Publishing 2003 1579510663 / 9781579510664 PAPERBACK
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1579510663 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 94 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Step-by-step instructions, with drawings and photographs--16 in full color, introduce the novice to the full range of growing methods, from sterile culture procedures--the basis of all tissue culture cloning techniques--to indoor bottle gardens to inddoor/outdoor compost gardens. Includes a section on producing small quantities of precisely-mixed compost indoors and a taxonomy of selected psilocybin-containing mushrooms.
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Hallucinogenic and Poisonous Mushroom Field Guide; Menser Ronin Publishing 1996 0914171895 / 9780914171898 PAPERBACK
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0914171895 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. A reliable reference that shows readers how to identify, collect and dry wild mushroom samples. Detailed drawings with concise descriptions of the habitat of each species, along with information on its fruiting cycle and geographical range.
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14.50 USD
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Magic Mushrooms; Stafford, Peter Ronin Publishing 2003 0914171194 / 9780914171195
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0914171194 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 144 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Over a hundred species of psilocybian mushrooms have been identified. MAGIC MUSHROOMS describes the size, shape, habitat, and potency of the most popular, including Amanita myscaria or Fly Agaric, Psilocybe cubensis, Psilocybe semilanceata or Liberty Caps, Panaelous Subbalteatus the most prevalent of the psilocybian mushrooms Psilocybe cyanescens or Wavy Caps, Psilocybe baeocystis, and Psilocybe stuntzii. amazing romantic history of the discovery and modern use of magic mushrooms weaves through out MAGIC MUSHROOMS. Stafford tells of R. Gordon Wasson s search for the sacred in the Oaxacan highlands and his mushrooms ceremonies with the curandera Maria Sabina. Soon after than came the famous Miracle of March Chapel and Timothy Leary s prison experiments in which he an several convicts actually ate mushrooms inside the Massachusetts Correctional Institution a maximum-security prison for young offenders. Step-by-step photographs show how mushrooms are cultivated indoors along with the methods for harvesting and drying them. Stafford discusses dosages used by shroom trippers and includes an entire chapter on chemistry. Included are dozens of wonderful photographs of marvelous mushrooms in all stages of development. Anyone who loves the 60s and is curious about psychedelic fungi will enjoy MAGIC MUSHROOMS. This book is a treasure.
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12.00 USD
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Magic Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest; Multimedia Studies in Amer 1997 158214026X / 9781582140261 PAPERBACK
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158214026X New. No dust jacket as issued. photocopied, stapled pamphlet/zine style publication, black and white illustrations are hard to make out and not of much use 28 p. photocopied, stapled pamphlet/zine style publication. This is the older edition and does not have a color insert. 'leading expert on counterculture history and psilocybian mushroom cultivation.' Jonathan Ott. Introduction, species identification with photos & bibliography. 35 Black and white plates.
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Morel Mushroom Coloring Book by Sauttez, DJ; Sauttez, DJ Self-published PAPERBACK
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12 Actual photographs of fresh morel mushrooms converted into outlines for you to color! Each one has its own page so you can cut it out and frame your masterpiece when you are done. You may create your own background on each page too, so you can show where they live.
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Mushroom Wisdom: How Shamans Cultivate Spiritual Consciousness; Ball, Martin W. Ronin Publishing 2006 1579510361 / 9781579510367 PAPERBACK
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1579510361 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 192 p. Audience: General/trade. MUSHROOM WISDOM is a guide to shamanic techniques for cultivating practical spirituality. In indigenous contexts, sacred plants are understood to have the power to teach essential knowledge and to bring seekers to states of divine consciousness. Mushroom space is a divine space. Anyone can eat mushrooms and experience the profound mind-manifesting powers of the sacred plant, but actually using them with intent and purpose for spiritual development requires certain techniques. A space of spirit, mind, and meaning. When using mushrooms as spiritual tools, they become plant teachers. Seekers only need learn to listen to how they communicate and how they impart their lessons. A space of beauty and wonder. What do the mushrooms teach? Primarily, mushrooms teach about the self. They open seekers up to the process of their own mind and their means of reality construction. They teach seekers about who and what they are. It is totally other and unknown. When approached as teachers, the mushroom experience, while profoundly joyful, is primarily work. Learning is work. Understanding our true self is work. Understanding the nature of the mind and our construction of reality is work. But it is work with profound rewards. Yet, immediately familiar and intimate. MUSHROOM WISDOM offers guidance through this potentially difficult and harrowing process. starting point of any genuine spiritual quest is with the self. When we begin to understand self, then we can begin to know the universe in which we find ourselves. It is Home.
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12.00 USD
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Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World; Stamets, Paul Ten Speed Press 2005 1580085792 / 9781580085793 PAPERBACK
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1580085792 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 340 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. 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.
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32.50 USD
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Radical Mycology: A Spore Liberation Front Primer; n/a Spore Liberation Front 2009 PAMPHLET
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New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! 38 p. stapled pamphlet A new zine from the Spore Liberation Front exploring the numerous uses for mushrooms and their implications for ecoactivists and other Earth friendly folk. From food to medicine to paper and dyes to the amazing new field of mycorememdiation (the use of mushrooms to clean up oil spills and restore damaged habitats), this zine gives a thorough overview of the greater fungi with a novel, radical perspective.
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