Dondante
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So I have really been getting into mycology lately. I am currently cultivating shiitake, reishi and oyster mushroms on logs and plan to inoculate my food forest with stropharia garden giant mushroom mycellium to companion plant some mushrooms with veggies and see how they interact with each other! The mycellium should expand the nutrient intake of the plants (through symbiotically associating with roots and expanding surface area intake) while also protecting them against parasites and disease.
I also plan to start an outdoor Psilocybe garden, probably the cyanenscens species.
I am hoping to create a mushroom garden one day, containing many different species of mushrooms: many diff gourmet edibles, medicinal, and shamanic and center it around various fruit shrubs and veggies.
I highly recommend Mycellium Running to ppl interested in how we can partner with fungi to heal our biosphere and at the same time heal our inner ecology (with medicinal and psychedelic mushies).
Mushroom cultivation is very easy and anybody can do it who puts the time and effort into it.
Did you guys know that fungi are more closely related to animals than plants and that mycelial networks under old growth forests (weighing hundreds of tons) are actually the largest organisms on earth?
Thanks. I didn't know Stamets had published such a book.

For anybody interested in an excellent intro to the topic, check out his video on ted.com.
Six ways mushrooms can save the world
It was quite an eye opening video for me. Ted.com has plenty of other excellent clips as well.
My other favorite:
Franz Lanting's Lyrical view of life on earth.