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Mushrooms for your Health: Medicinal & Gourmet - Know them, Grow them!

Carla Parvin, Blue Mountain Mushrooms, [email protected], 828.380.1772

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 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!



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!



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

http://www.mushroommountain.com/

http://www.deepwoodsmushrooms.net/

http://www.fieldforest.net/

http://www.fungiperfecti.com/

http://www.fungiasheville.com/

http://www.notastelikehome.org/

http://www.ashevillemushroomclub.com/

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