Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms Kindle Edition

Lots of info

It's pretty cool and seems to be thorough. Good buy.

I really love this book. I knew nothing about mushrooms and I wanted to learn how to grow them at home for use in cooking. We use tons of mushrooms in my house...we love 'em. This is not a full color, step by step guide to starting a little mushroom log. This is more of a text book....though a very entertaining textbook...the writing is not completely dry, which was refreshing. It was a little intimidating at first. It definitely deals with things on at least a farm sized scale and easily on an industrial scale.There is however a wealth of useful information that can be gleaned from this book about. For instance:-- Temperature for mycelium run of a particular species-- temperature to initiate fruiting at-- humidity to hold the room at-- substrata to use for the different species-- different ways to sterilize substrata-- how to take a spore print-- how to inoculate substrata-- Basic principles of farming mushrooms-- how to assess your environment and practices to improve your sterility controls+ more more moreI am no science wiz, but I am curious and daring. For the amateur scientist who likes to take their hobbies a little to seriously sometimes, this is the uber book of mushroom cultivation. For the strict beginner that needs to be walked through things slowly and methodically...or just doesn't want all the scientific mumbo-jumbo, this could be an information overload that will frustrate you. If you're ready to do some additional research to figure out how to scale things down and where to find alternative equipment that doesn't cost tens of thousands of dollars, this book will be great for you. I dream of a corner of my basement set up as a clean room for culturing spores and tissue from plants.

Arrived on time, and it's definitely a good book to have in your library.

I love this book ; I can't put the words to praise the writer enough !!!!!!!! He is a awesome writer he made this book so wellOrganized that can knock anyone's socks off .It's a goldmine of infos on growingAnd identifying Mushrooms !!! 🍄 The price of this book Not bad eighter 🙂I highly recommend it to anyone who isInterested in mushrooms . He is a veryLucky or may I say blessed person .JOB WELL DONE.I THINK HE DESERVESNOT 5***** BUT 10*****Sincerely yours YBYMOT he made my day.

Greta resource overall.Wish the whole book was in color. I opted for the spiral bound version (the most expressive option) , and I was disappointed to find most of the pictures in the book are in black and white and low resolution.The low quality on the photo prints makes it hard to tell what’s happening in the pictures.

Quality of the book is very apparent! Words are not too small, it's easy to read. Have skimmed a few chapters already and I look forward to reading it. I love gathering info on topics that interest me. This book makes me want to learn about other aspects of mushroom growing I never considered. Will be a great gift for my hubs, too, who is also interested in mushroom growing.After some reading of reveiws, I purchased two books on the topic: Organic Mushroom Farming & Mycoremediation AND Growinf Gourmet & Medicinal Mushrooms. I would say the same about both books from what I've read so far.I have a background in Biology, science, and lots of experience in just learning new hobbies or needy things, etc. My husband does not. Both books are perfect for either background and easy to learn and incorporate into your own needs/experience. Glad I choose both.

I'm a collector of books and in my mountainous mycology library, this is the reference text I keep reaching for, and my most valuable by far. Paul Stamets (and David Arora, for me) has inspired so many to step out into the woods and discover the magical world of mushrooms. I am quite convinced that Stamets is actually a mushroom in human form, as he has taken his love of mycology to a next level understanding. Equal parts reader-friendly and science-based, this book expands on and deepens the readers knowledge on well-known concepts, but delves into entirely new realms of practical usage of mycology from culinary to home and commercial cultivation to bioremediation. Can mushrooms save the planet? Paul Stamets thinks so, and I believe him.