Bioneers:

[Dna]

The Bioneers are focussed on bringing together leaders using solutions from nature to solve the world's problems


Bioneers report from Weather.com (http://climate.weather.com/?ref=9a83edf02c017e21bffd7d642ce85e030c744951)
Mycologist Paul Stamets at Bioneers 2006 conference (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6165509108079462128&q=bioneers+stamets)


"Nature is our ally. We all need to be empowered by using nature as tools. The fungi and biosphere are reaching out to us. It is our time. Let's get busy"
- Paul Stamets (Bioneers 2006)


http://www.bioneers.org/

[Isaiah Mpski]

Yeah.Send me your money.And not on a British airplane.

[tree hugger]

I love the Bioneers. Reading the books they have published has given me hope that we can make a great change. Not assuring we will but at least reaching for the possibility. Paul Stamets is a truly amazing also.

http://www.fungi.com/seminars/index.html

He is really inspiring.

tree hugger

[nanouk]

Thanks for the links Dna and tree hugger!

I love growing my own Shiitake and Chest Nut Mushrooms, it is easy, last year i was given a log impregnated with spores, but haven't sourced any this year. I also grew Shiitake on a (full) toilet roll, it was a very, very good harvest, and a 280 sheets lasted me about 3 months! :)

Unfortunately i haven't found a way to grow Chanterelles at home, according to my Mum, who is a Mycologist, it takes a sterile lab or a fortune to do it...

Love and Respect,
~n~

[Isaiah Mpski]

The thing that impressed me most during my first year of medical school was how really difficult it was to keep fungi from growing on the body we were dissecting.
The female students seemed to have the most problems.:rolleyes:

[nanouk]

The thing that impressed me most during my first year of medical school was how really difficult it was to keep fungi from growing on the body we were dissecting.
The female students seemed to have the most problems.:rolleyes:

*lol* I understand.

[Dna]

last year i was given a log impregnated with spores

Oh, that sounds great. You can get spore plugs which you put into holes in a log of wood. I think there are some companies in the UK, which provide these. If you have any suggestions Nanouk, I'd be interested.

Nice thing is that once you have a log, you just rest other logs against it as the years go on, and the mycelium spreads.

Best,

Dna.

[nanouk]

Oh, that sounds great. You can get spore plugs which you put into holes in a log of wood. I think there are some companies in the UK, which provide these. If you have any suggestions Nanouk, I'd be interested.

Nice thing is that once you have a log, you just rest other logs against it as the years go on, and the mycelium spreads.

Best,

Dna.

I will check it out, lost my phone(again!) so can't ring my friends in Wales to ask where they got theirs from. So it can be kept every year, huh? I DID pile it up with the rest of my firewood last year, don't think i burned it yet...gotta go and see!...

Thanks for tip Dna, :)

Love and Respect,
~N~

[Dna]

This is a posting from a book that I have called 'The Mushroom Cultivator (http://www.librarything.com/work/925742&book=2970842)' by Stamets and Chilton. - Worth a getting if you can find a copy.

http://entheology.net/images/archives/shitake_cultivation.jpg

The image shows shitake cultivation on a commercial scale, using oak logs. The book says that you need to leave the bark on for fruiting to occur.

Dna.

[gandydancer]

I pick a large number of wild mushrooms. All you need is a good book, though a good web site and a mushroom forum help also. I used to avoid almost all gilled mushrooms, the family that has most of the deadly ones, because the northern Wisconsin woods had more than enough to choose from. But since I moved to the East Coast I have not found such a great abundance and have had to learn a few safe gilled types. This year I picked many pounds of Honey Mushrooms and dried them. Some years the woods here have had great numbers of Chanterelles, both golden and black, but this was not one of those years.