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Mushrooms for your Health: Medicinal & Gourmet - Know them, Grow them!
Carla Parvin, Blue Mountain Mushrooms, carla.parvin@gmail.com, 828.380.1772 Page 1
What is a mushroom?
A mushroom is the fruiting body of some types of fungus.
Ecologically, fungi are VERY important recyclers and partners for the planet.
They digest most anything containing carbon – wood, oil, etc.
The Mushroom is only a small part of the fungus –
Most is underground in the form of mycelium.
Mycelium is made up of tiny strands of hyphae.
The mushroom is the fruiting body – makes and disperses spores.
Mushroom
Spore
Hyphae
Mycelium
Mushrooms for your Health: Medicinal & Gourmet - Know them, Grow them!
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Mushrooms are impressive, vital & fascinating!
Estimated to be over 1 million species of fungi. Only 10% have been described
and named – most are single-celled. They outnumber plants 6:1.
World’s largest organism is a Honey Fungus in Oregon - covers 2,400 acres.
Recyclers of organic debris, filter & clean ground water – mycoremediation!
Insect partners & Plant (Mycorrihizal) partners
Ectomycorrhiza: fungal hyphae surround rootlets – most tree species
Endomycorrhiza: hyphae enter the plant cells – most non-woody plants
Source of food & medicines - Cheese, beer, bread – Beta Glucan, penicillin!
Cholesterol free, low sodium - contains fiber, potassium, phosphorus, selenium & copper, B & D vitamins, protein –
all 9 essential amino acids, 21 calories per cup uncooked.
Western medicine’s approach is to respond to disease while Eastern medicine’s focus is to help clients avoid disease.
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. Enjoy mushrooms & their health benefits fresh or dried in teas & extracts.
Shiitake (Lentinula edodes) – Tastes great and has antiviral and anticancer benefits. Lentinan polysaccharide, one of the
compounds in Shiitakes, enhances the immune response and has been approved as a drug in Japan.
Turkey Tail (Trametes versicolor) – Polysaccharide compounds PSP & PSK are standard cancer therapies in Japan & China.
Reishi – (Ganoderma lucidum) – Ameliorates a wide variety of ailments - from cancers and heart disease to hepatitis and
hypertension. Many active compounds – 100 distinct polysaccharides & 119 steroidal triterpenoids - Western scientists!
Mushrooms for your Health: Medicinal & Gourmet - Know them, Grow them!
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Growing Mushrooms – Reishi, Lion’s Mane, Turkey Tail, Shitake, Oyster, King Stropharia, Morel
Mushrooms Require – Water (correct humidity), Light, Oxygen &
Food – Correct log/substrate for each type of mushroom
On Logs – Freshly cut from dormant trees (no leaves) with bark intact
4” to 8” diameter is best – will fruit for years Off Ground – Shitake
Off Ground – Shitake
On Ground – Reishi, Oyster, Turkey Tail
Pony Logs – Lion’s Mane
“Totem” or stacks of log rounds
On Stumps – Oyster, Turkey Tail, Hen of the Woods (Maitake), Chicken-of-the-Woods
As soon as possible after cutting or at the base of living trees
On Chips – King Stropharia (a.k.a. Wine Cap & Garden Giant)
In beds or in pots on FRESH hardwood chips, NOT mulch
Tools – Spawn for the selected variety of mushroom, friends/helpers and
Grinder (with adapter) or drill – grinder is definitely better for this application!
Drill bit with built-in stop
Log rack for drilling, platform for plugging & waxing
Wax (melted) & dauber or small paint brush
Collecting wild mushrooms – go with someone who knows!
Mushrooms for your Health: Medicinal & Gourmet - Know them, Grow them!
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Resources Catalogs – Field & Forest, Fungi Perfecti
Internet – TedX – Tradd Cotter and Paul Stamets
www.mushroommountain.com – Tradd Cotter
www.deepwoodsmushrooms.net – Greg Carter
www.fieldforest.net – mention Greg Carter’s name
www.fungiperfecti.com – Paul Stamets
www.fungiasheville.com – Chris Parker
www.notastelikehome.org – Alan Muskat
Mushroom Clubs*** Asheville Mushroom Club www.ashevillemushroomclub.com Check out the “Keys & Links” tab! Meets 2nd Wednesday of the month, 7pm at WNC Nature Center. South Carolina Upstate Mycological Society http://www.scumsonline.com/Events/index.asp The SCUMS typically has its monthly meeting on the first Monday of the month at 6:30pm at Clemson University. They often foray the Saturday or Sunday following that meeting. Mushroom Club of Georgia http://gamushroomclub.org/walks.php The MCG typically meets on the first Wednesday of the Month at 7pm in Atlanta.
Cumberland Mycological Society http://www.cumberlandmycology.com/forays.htm Travel to TN for more great foraying opportunities. Forays are listed on the website!
Books
Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation by Tradd Cotter
Growing Gourmet & Medicinal Mushrooms by Paul Stamets
Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets
Mycophilia by Eugenia Bone
Healing Mushrooms – Effective Treatments for Today’s Illnesses
by Georges Halpern, MD, PhD
Medicinal Mushrooms – The Essential Guide by Martin Powell
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms
Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians
by William C. Roody
Beta Glucan from Restart Your Life
Find Beta Glucan RVB300 & BETA500 at
www.my90forlife.com/101345822
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