The Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms is your ultimate guide to mycology. Whether you've never picked a mushroom before in your life or you've been cultivating mushrooms at home for ages, the expert advice in this comprehensive mushroom manual will transform your practice.
Never before have mushrooms generated so much interest, for their health benefits and medicinal properties, as well as a new understanding of their crucial role in a healthy environment and ability to regenerate damaged ones. If you are a newcomer, mycology, or the study of mushrooms and other fungi, can seem daunting. While other field guides are geared toward experts with advanced knowledge or regional in scope and aimed at only a few easy-to-recognise mushrooms, The Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms by veteran mycologists Britt A. Bunyard and Tavis Lynch is a complete reference and guidebook to get you started identifying, cultivating, cooking, and preserving mushrooms.
The Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms opens with important basics about wild mushrooming and how to use the book. Information about what fungi are and their role in the environment and around the home is provided in brief and very understandable terms. Basic wild mushroom anatomy is discussed along with how to identify mushrooms and various characteristics to look for-of great importance if you are interested in learning how to recognise edible wild species...as well as dangerous look-alikes. The guide then covers:
All the major groups of wild mushrooms, pointing out habitat, region, and notable characteristics-large photographs with easy-to-view characteristics facilitate correct identification.
Mushroom cultivation-with easy-to-follow illustrated instructions, learn how to grow mushrooms at home, including how to collect wild specimens and domesticate them.
Culinary uses and how to preserve wild mushrooms to be enjoyed in the kitchen all year round.
Begin your wonderful exploration of wild mushrooms with this accessible yet thorough beginner's guide.
By:
Britt Bunyard,
Tavis Lynch
Imprint: Quarry Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 254mm,
Width: 216mm,
ISBN: 9781631599118
ISBN 10: 1631599119
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 01 December 2020
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Mushrooms: The BasicsIntroduction to mushrooms and mushrooming, basics Very basic mycology What a mushroom is, how fungi operate, basic classification How to identify mushrooms, field characters, being sure of ID...basic key Ethics of mushroom hunting and picking Biology of fungi explained and how it relates to mushrooming...eg saprobes and rotters and where to find those species vs mycorrhizal symbionts and where to find those species Poisonous groups and how to know (and avoid) them Mushrooms as food, fiber, and medicine basics Examples of medicinal mushrooms...psychedelic mushrooms Fun with fungi...paper making, ...dyeing fiber...amadou, felt, hats Getting started: equipment needed Mushrooms: IdentificationForaging wild mushrooms, how to know them by groups, all discussion will point out how to know safe edible from look-alikes Morels and false morels Puffballs Inky caps Chanterelles, trumpets, hedgehogs, and false chanterelles Oyster mushrooms Field and button mushrooms: Agaricus spp., Lepiotas, Lepista (blewits), Marasmius, others Boletes and bolete-like mushrooms Amanitas Honey mushrooms Polypores and polypore-like mushrooms Tooth fungi (lions mane and relatives, hawks wing and relatives) Russulas, milk mushrooms, and lobster mushrooms Tricholomas: matsutake, man-on-horseback, others Coral and club fungi Truffles and false truffles Strange but wonderful parasites: corn smut, cordyceps, and others Mushrooms: CultivationIntroduction A. How mushrooms grow B. Cleanliness Spore printing A. What is spore printing? B. Supplies C. How to do a Spore Print D. Preserving the Spore Print Spore syringes A. Supplies 1. Sources 2. Sizes B. Preparation of equipment C. Creating a slurry 1.Water 2. Spores D. Loading the syringe 1. Its very simple! Making spawn A. Supplies 1. Complete list of supplies B. Jar preparation 1. Holes 2. Cleaning the jars C. Substrate preparation 1. Substrate recipe 2. Filling the jars 3. Sterilizing substrate Introducing spores to substrate A. Be clean! 1. Preparation 2. Still box B. Injection 1. Spore syringe injection 2. Incubation Making usable quantities of spawn A. Expanding the Colony 1. Preparing the substrate B. Bulk substrate 1. Fruiting Mushrooms: Culinary and Preservation Basics and equipment needed Preservation and storage of wild harvested and cultivated mushrooms Preparation techniques
"Britt Bunyard, PhD, is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal Fungi. Britt has worked academically as a mycologist his entire career, writing scientifically for many research journals, popular science magazines, and books, most recently Mushrooms and Macrofungi of Ohio and Midwestern States (2012) by The Ohio State University Press. He has served as an editor for mycological and entomological research journals, and mushroom guide books. A popular evangelizer on all things fungal, Britt has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered, PBS's NOVA and Wisconsin Foodie television programs, and in The Atlantic, Vogue, Forbes, Saveur, Women's World, and others. He serves as Executive Director of the Telluride Mushroom Festival. He is the co-editor of MycoEpithalamia: Mushroom Wedding Poems (The FUNGI Press), published in 2016. He is the co-author of The Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms (Quarry Books). Tavis Lynch has been studying mushrooms for over three decades and teaches several mycology classes throughout the Upper Midwest. He is a regular guest on Wisconsin Public Radio and has been featured on ""Around the Farm The Farm Table"" on PBS. He owns and operates a large scale mushroom farm in the north woods, growing mushrooms with a unique method that he developed. He is the author of Mushroom Cultivation (Quarto) and the co-author of The Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms (Quarto)."
Reviews for The Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms: Everything You Need to Know, from Foraging to Cultivating
"""...an interesting introduction to the mushroom world."" * Washington Gardener *"
