Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

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How valid some of these frustrations are definitely depend on the idea of where legitimate knowledge comes from. But this will only happen through some intelligent partnerships with the biosphere we are so rapidly decimating. But such scientific literature has a threefold job - it has to be accessible, persuasive, and authoritative all at once. I liked the details provided on different routes you could take (types of substrate, inoculation methods) even if I'm not a cultivator myself.

I also liked that he went over general fungal structure and life cycles, which is important for understanding the rest of the book.I gave the review 4 stars because the ideas are interesting and will be looking more broadly for evidence of the larger scale verification and adoption of the ideas.

A couple specific gripes: muddling hypothesis and proven facts/theories, making huge, sweeping statements without footnotes or references - ie, this mushroom might cure cancer.

For what I can gather, it isn’t used by the industrial composters that empty our green bins, all of which seem to use a variety of aerobic techniques — I don’t know why. But why not just preface or end a technical section with a reference to other works, instead of ending sentences with them? He lists only his company for this continent and they are moving away from kits and sold out of their catalog of spawn. Throughout cosmic wind storms, when 90% of the life on the planet was decimated, throughout dinosaur evolution and extinction, and now up to this teeny tiny period of time humans have been around. Whilst it's geared towards people with a fair bit of land, and isn't a "step by step" how-to guide, it gives a lot for gardeners to think about too.