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Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

Little did I know that many years later, while sitting in a yurt classroom, I would learn how truly amazing these fungi are and how they have been ‘cleaning up’ nature since the beginning of time, along with a lot of our man-made messes too.
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
by Paul Stamets

My first memories of mushrooms are foraging with my maternal grandmother for puffball (Calvatia gigantean) mushrooms which she would slice and fry in butter for a yummy lunch treat. The other was finding toadstools on the edge of our property that I could place my pet toad under for some mid-day shade or shelter from a sudden cloud burst we had been caught in.

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