Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms by Paul Stamets

Table of Contents
1. Mushrooms, Civilization and History
2. The Role of Mushrooms in Nature
3. Selecting a Candidate for Cultivation
4. Natural Culture: Creating Mycological Landscapes
5. The Stainetsian Model: Permaculture with a Mycological Twist
6. Materials for Formulating a Fruiting Substrate
7. Biological Efficiency: An Expression of Yield
8. Home-made vs. CommercialSpawn
9. The Mushroom Life Cycle
10. The Six Vectors of Contamination
11. Mind and Methods for Mushroom Culture
12. Culturing Mushroom Mycelium on Agar Media
13. The Stock Culture Library: A Genetic Bank of Mushroom Strains
14. Evaluating a Mushroom Strain
15. Generating Grain Spawn
16. Creating Sawdust Spawn
17. Growing Gourmet Mushrooms on Enriched Sawdust
18. Cultivating Gourmet Mushrooms on Agricultural Waste Products
19. Cropping Containers
20. Casing: A Topsoil Promoting Mushroom Formation
21. Growth Parameters for Gourmet and Medicinal Mushroom Species
22. Maximizing the Substrate's Potential through Species Sequencing
23. Harvesting, Storing, and Packaging the Crop for Market
24. Mushroom Recipes: Enjoying the Fruits of Your Labors
25. Cultivation Problems & Their Solufions: A Troubleshooting Guide
Appendices
I. Descriptions of Environments for A Mushroom Farm
II. DesigningandBuildingASpawnLaboratory
III. The Growing Room: An Environment for Mushroom Formation & Development
IV. Resource Directory
V. Analyses of Basic Materials Used in Substrate Preparation
V. Data Conversion Tables