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Mushroom Lovers🍄

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This list has my favorite Books, Websites, Resources, Documentaries, Retreats / Wellness Centers & Information by leading experts in the industry!
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Books

My top favorite books
 
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This book explains nutritional and medicinal compounds & also provides detailed instructions on how to select, store, and prepare each variety mushroom for use.
Christopher Hobbs's Medicinal Mushrooms: The Essential Guide: Boost Immunity, Improve Memory, Fight Cancer, Stop Infection, and Expand Your Consciousness
 
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The ultimate guide to healing properties of medicinal mushrooms! This book features over 300 detailed plant profiles for easy mushroom identification.
The Fungal Pharmacy: The Complete Guide to Medicinal Mushrooms and Lichens of North America
 
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Huge book that covers literally everything! If you had to have only one book on the cultivation of mushrooms, i'd pick this one!!
Radical Mycology: A Treatise on Seeing & Working With Fungi
 
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This is a good book on mushroom cultivation for beginners!
Mushroom Cultivation for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Growing Your Own Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms at Home, Indoors and Outdoors. | + BONUS: 10 Beginner-Friendly Low Investment DIY Projects
 
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Perfect for beginners. It’s a very easy read with nice illustrations.
The Essential Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms: Simple and Advanced Techniques for Growing Shiitake, Oyster, Lion's Mane, and Maitake Mushrooms at Home
 
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Fantastic culinary guide for cooking and pairing mushrooms.
Fantastic Fungi Community Cookbook
 
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A very detailed and comprehensive guide for growing and using gourmet and medicinal mushrooms commercially or at home.
Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
 
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This book explores the history, lore, scientific research, and future of Chaga. Wolfe provides readers with recipes for teas, soups, fermentations, and tinctures—as well as tips on how to obtain quality chaga products.
Chaga: King of the Medicinal Mushrooms
 
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Concise book about Shiitake and it's healing properties.
Shiitake: The Healing Mushroom
 
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Paul Stamets identification guide devoted to the world's psilocybin-containing mushrooms. He provides detailed descriptions and color photographs for over 100 species, as well as an exploration of their long-standing (and often religious) use by anci...
Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide
 
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A comprehensive guide to all necessary information on the practice of microdosing – including protocols, benefits, drawbacks, and sourcing.
Microdosing Psychedelics: A Practical Guide to Upgrade Your Life
 
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A guide to psychedelics for spiritual, therapeutic, and problem-solving.
The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys
 
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Another great book by Mycologist Paul Stamets. This book is packed with mind-blowing information on how these tiny organisms can change the world.
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
 
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Finding the Mother Tree reminds us that the world is a web of stories, connecting us to one another. Simard has spent her life discovering the unbelievable underground connection of trees and their reliance on each other.
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
 
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An excellent interweaving of the two stories, mushrooms and mourning.
The Way Through the Woods: overcoming grief through nature

Websites

My favorite websites full of helpful resources led by experts in the industry
 
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The McKenna Academy is run by president Dennis McKenna, younger brother of Terence McKenna. The mission of the academy is to cultivate harmony with nature through educational programs, ethnobiological exploration and engagement with indigenous wisdom...
McKenna Academy
 
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Oakland Hyphae is a socially responsible, Black-owned, grassroots business, who's goal is to educate and provide dependable, high quality resources and information for plant medicine cultivators and enthusiasts. Oakland Hyphae hosts the Hyphae Cup an...
Oakland Hyphae | Research & Potency Testing
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MycoSymbiotics is an education and research facility powered by a mushroom farm. Founder and CEO, William Padilla-Brown, has been featured in multiple publications including Fantastic Fungi and VICE. He also founded and manages MycoFest, an annual mu...
MycoSymbiotics® Official Site - Shop MycoSymbiotics® Online
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Tradd Cotter is a microbiologist, mycologist, organic gardener, and best-selling author. He provides lots of information on his website; including research, lectures, workshops, retreats & more.
Tradd Cotter - TRADDCOTTER.COM
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Dr. Christopher Hobbs is a fourth-generation, internationally renowned herbalist, licensed acupuncturist, author, clinician, botanist, mycologist, and research scientist with over 35 years of experience with herbal medicine. His website has a wealth ...
Home - Dr. Christopher Hobbs, Ph.D.
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Martin Powell is a biochemist, chinese herbalist, therapist, author and lecturer. Here you can read about his work, including his launch of The Mushroom magazine.
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Third Wave is a place for providing individuals with research-based education on psychedelics, access to vetted providers, and membership to a global community.
Third Wave | Psychedelic Education, Resources & Community
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Mushroom Mountain is a farm located in Easley, SC that offers high quality spawn, fruiting kits, mushroom related gifts and books, classes, workshops, and farm tours for visitors and growers to expand their knowledge of fungi.
Mushroom Mountain: Harmony With Nature Through Fungi
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Field & Forest offers grow kits, tools, education, video tutorials, & recipes.
Field & Forest
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Other Resources

Other helpful tools & guides for DIY
 
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Mushroom Zone Fruiting Map in PDF form!
Zone Fruiting Map - Plant Hardiness | Mushroom Mountain
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A simple guide on how to make a Mushroom Double Extraction.
How to Make a Mushroom Double Extraction
 
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Learn about how to grow mushrooms on logs with videos, charts, & more.
Field & Forest Guide to Growing Mushrooms on Logs

Retreats

Retreats / Wellness Centers
 
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The Blue Portal is a Psilocybin-assisted therapy experience in a safe and legal setting founded by best-selling author and mushroom expert Tradd Cotter.
BLUE PORTAL WELLNESS | The Blue Portal
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Documentaries

Fascinating documentaries that everyone should watch
 
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This is a very eye-opening film about the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of life on Earth.
Fantastic Fungi | Netflix
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