Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets

Food, medicine, communications, soil structure and function, nutrient cycling, and bio-remediation. This book covers a lot of topics and is very accessible. This book is a must-have even if you aren’t directly interested in fungi. What they facilitate in the soil, however, is critical and without them, life would look very different on planet Earth.

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In the pine forest up the back of ours you can dig down into the needles and find the white gold. If you dig it up and put cuttings in it they grow like 🏆

That's the good stuff! I do that all the time when I'm at the house in Colorado. Deep drifts of pine cone shreddings (thank you, squirrels) beneath ancient pines on the corner of the lot provide tons of the stuff.