his Is a Book for People Who Love Mushrooms - By Meg Madden

A celebratory compendium of nature's weirdest and most wonderful fungi, with gorgeously illustrated profiles of notable mushrooms and information on foraging, understanding, and appreciating these magnificent living things

For amateur mycologists and experienced foragers alike, this delightful guide acts as a welcome to the wonderful world of mushrooms. From the most common and recognizable varieties frequently found in your supermarket aisle or backyard to the rarest, most fantastical offerings that look straight out of a fairytale illustration and everything in between, This Is a Book for People Who Love Mushrooms is a carefully researched, whimsically illustrated primer on a subject that naturalists are discovering more about each year. Accessible to enthusiasts of all levels, it is the perfect gift for the mushroom lover in your life.

ISBN-139780762481361

Pub Date 3/7/2023

Publisher Running Press

Page Count 128 pages

About the Author

Meg Madden is an artist, photographer, naturalist, hiker, and mushroom lover from Vermont. She shares her striking photos of mushrooms, lichen, and other nature captures to a following of 30,000 on Instagram at @megmaddendesign.

The Essential Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms

Simple and Advanced Techniques for Growing Shiitake, Oyster, Lion's Mane, and Maitake Mushrooms at Home 

By Stephen Russell

From the basics of using mushroom kits to working with grain spawn, liquid cultures, and fruiting chambers, Stephen Russell covers everything you need to know to produce mouthwatering shiitakes, oysters, lion’s manes, maitakes, and portobellos. Whether you’re interested in growing them for your own kitchen or to sell at a local market, you’ll soon be harvesting a delicious and abundant crop of mushrooms. 

ISBN-13 9781612121468

Publisher Storey

Page Count 232 pages

Nathalie Lété: Mushrooms 1,000-Piece Puzzle

Welcome to Nathalie Lété’s Enchanted World a morel, a pair of butter-yellow chanterelles, a beautiful speckled red agaricus—in this budding grove of magic mushrooms, retrace the magic of Nathalie Lete’s imagination, and revel in her breathtaking colors and imagery.

• Featuring:​1,000 full-color interlocking pieces
• Art print with puzzle image
• Finished puzzle is 19" x 23 4/5"

Publisher: PublisherArtisan

ISBN-13: 9781648290879

Mushrooms: A Wooden Magnet Set

by Meg Madden

Bring the wonder and curiosity of mushrooms to your home or office with this keepsake set of illustrated wooden magnets, fold-out poster, sticker sheets, and mini guidebook.

•  Deluxe wooden magnets: This set includes 8 full-color, illustrated wooden magnets, each featuring a unique variety of mushrooms.
• Fold-out poster: Show off your love for fabulous fungi with this 6 3/8 X 7 1/4 inch illustrated fold-out poster. 
• Book included: Learn the ins and outs of the 8 featured mushroom varieties, plus foraging basics, in the enclosed 48-page, fully-illustrated paperback book. 
• Bonus sticker sheets: Two sheets of full-color stickers add myco-tastic flair to anything you place them on.
• A unique gift for mushroom or nature lovers: Mushroom and nature lovers of all ages and abilities will love this unique gift set. 

Page Count: 32 pages

Publisher: RP Minis

ISBN-13: 9780762481378

Mushrooms of the Southeast: Timber Press Field Guide

By Todd F. Elliott and By Steven L. Stephenson

Ideal for hikers, foragers, and naturalists, the Timber Press Field Guides are the perfect tools for loving where you live.

Mushrooms of the Southeast is a comprehensive field guide to the most conspicuous, distinctive, and ecologically important mushrooms found in the region. This useful guide features introductory chapters on the basics of mushroom structure, life cycles, and habitats. Profiles include color photographs, keys, and diagrams to aid in identification, and tips on how to recognize and avoid poisonous mushrooms.

• Covers Alabama, Arkansas, northern Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia
• Describes and illustrates more than 350 species
• 348 photographs, with additional keys and diagrams
• Clear, color-coded layout

Page Count: 408 pages

Publisher: Timber Press

ISBN-13: 9781604697308

Mushrooms of the Rocky Mountain Region: Timber Press Field Guide

By Vera Stucky Evenson and By Denver Botanic Gardens

Ideal for hikers, foragers, and naturalists, the Timber Press Field Guides are the perfect tools for loving where you live.

Mushrooms of the Rocky Mountain Region is a comprehensive field guide to the most conspicuous, distinctive, and ecologically important mushrooms found in the region. This useful guide features introductory chapters on the basics of mushroom structure, life cycles, and habitats. Profiles include color photographs, keys, and diagrams to aid in identification, and tips on how to recognize and avoid poisonous mushrooms.

• Covers Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, as well as adjacent areas in Montana and Idaho
• Describes and illustrates 220 species
• More than 500 photographs, with additional keys and diagrams
• Clear color-coded layout

Page Count: 298 pages

Publisher: Timber Press

ISBN-13: 9781604695762

Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada: Timber Press Field Guide

Ideal for hikers, foragers, and naturalists, the Timber Press Field Guides are the perfect tools for loving where you live.

Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada is a comprehensive field guide to the most conspicuous, distinctive, and ecologically important mushrooms found in the region. This useful guide features introductory chapters on the basics of mushroom structure, life cycles, and habitats. Profiles include color photographs, keys, and diagrams to aid in identification, and tips on how to recognize and avoid poisonous mushrooms.

• Covers Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Ontario, and most of Quebec
• Describes and illustrates more than 500 species
• 550 photographs, with additional keys and diagrams
• Clear, color-coded layout

Page Count: 600 pages

Publisher: Timber Press

ISBN-13: 9781604696349

Mushrooms 500-Piece Puzzle

by Meg Madden

Celebrate the beauty of mushrooms with this fully-illustrated 500-piece puzzle and booklet set, featuring colorful illustrations of several North American varieties.

•  Specifications: A 500-piece puzzle, printed in full color on high-quality stock.
• Puzzle dimensions: This puzzle measures approximately 20 x 16 inches when finished.
• Fully illustrated package: This puzzle, deluxe box, and booklet feature original illustrations of notable mushrooms. 
• Book included: Learn the characteristics of a selection of particularly common or interesting mushroom varieties, as well as tips for finding them, in the enclosed 32-page paperback book (5 x 6 inches), featuring full-color artwork throughout.

This extraordinary puzzle is a perfect gift for all ages who appreciate the wonders of nature, especially mushrooms! Order it today!

Page Count: 32 pages

Publisher: RP Studio

ISBN-13: 9780762481392

How to Grow Mushrooms from Scratch:

A Practical Guide to Cultivating Portobellos, Shiitakes, Truffles, and Other Edible Mushrooms

by Magdalena Wurth (Author), Herbert Wurth (Author)

Yes, you can grow mushrooms from scratch!

Why grow mushrooms?

Mushrooms are a joy to grow―for food, as a garden feature, or just for fun―and it’s easier than you think! How to Grow Mushrooms from Scratch covers 19 varieties, from button (always versatile) to reishi (a medicinal powerhouse). Plus, here are delicious recipes, preserving methods, and more.

Where can you grow mushrooms?

Mushrooms will thrive in your garden, on your windowsill, and even in your basement. The key is to pick the right growing medium for your mushroom―a log, a bale of hay, or a simple pot of dirt―and give it a little shade.

How to grow mushrooms!

Experts Magdalena and Herbert Wurth explain every step of cultivation―whether starting from a kit, a culture, or a grown mushroom you’d like to propagate. From protecting mushrooms in extreme weather, to troubleshooting pests, here is expert advice for beginners and experienced growers alike! 190 color photographs

ISBN 10: 1615194916 

ISBN 13: 9781615194919

Publisher: The Experiment, 2018

Hardcover 144 pages

How to Forage for Wild Foods without Dying Journal:

Track the Mushrooms and Wild Edible Plants You Find, Season by Season, Year after Year 

by Ellen Zachos

This seasonal journal for tracking the locations and dates of foraged foods Includes essential foraging guidelines and an extensive table of edible plants and mushrooms for each season.How to Forage for Wild Food without Dying: The Journal is an easy way for foragers to keep track of their foraging finds, where they found them, and at what time of year. By tracking what they collect, foragers can become more adept at locating their favorite wild foods in future years. They also become more educated about how weather patterns affect the availability of wild-harvested plants and mushrooms.

Throughout the book, author and expert forager Ellen Zachos offers essential advice for safe foraging and extensive lists of wild edibles and mushrooms for each season. These act as seasonal prompts, so that readers know what foods to be looking for at each time of the year, and as a way for readers to plan their future foraging adventures. The journal is the same trim size as How to Forage for Wild Foods without Dying and How to Forage for Mushrooms without Dying and features rounded corners for durability, an easy-to-clean cover, elastic closure, and lay-flat binding.

Page Count: 192 pages

Publisher: Storey

ISBN-13: 9781635867862

IACP Cookbook Award Winner

Named a Best Cookbook of 2022 by Bon Appetit

Cooking with Mushrooms A Fungi Lover's Guide to the World's Most Versatile, Flavorful, Health-Boosting Ingredients - by Andrea Gentl

In her extraordinary first cookbook, Andrea Gentl brings to her subject equal parts knowledge and technique, along with a unique passion and sensibility. From sprinkling adaptogenic powder over granola to reinventing schnitzel with king trumpets, Cooking with Mushrooms expands our ideas of how to use mushrooms as both a food and a flavor, a seasoning and the star of the plate. 

Here are a variety of mushroom broths to make you feel better. Breakfast recipes like Soupy Eggs with Chanterelles. Mushroom Larb or a Crispy Shiitake “Bacon” Endive Wedge Salad makes the perfect lunch. Mushroom Ragu or a Roast Chicken with Miso Mushroom Butter can change the dinner game, and a Maple Mushroom Ice Cream will transform your ideas about dessert. 

The dishes might sound familiar—lasagna, risotto, a bourguignon, brownies—but the ingredients and flavors are as unexpected as they are delicious. In all, Cooking with Mushrooms features nearly 100 recipes that unlock the powerful flavors and health-giving properties of the world’s most magical ingredient. 

ISBN-13 9781648291500

Publisher: Artisan

Page Count 164 pages

A fresh, modern take on paint-by-number features 20 frame-worthy mushroom images, accompanied by step-by-step instructions and humorous profiles of each mushroom. 

This book is an open invitation to create art. Inside you’ll find tips and techniques for painting 20 mushrooms printed on premium cardstock along with a swatch palette for color matching. The 8" x 10" sheets have two background options–light or dark–and are designed to fit store bought, ready-made frames. 

Page Count 112 pages

Publisher Storey

ISBN-13 9781635868753

Christopher Hobbs's Medicinal Mushrooms: The Essential Guide: Boost Immunity, Improve Memory, Fight Cancer, Stop Infection, and Expand Your Consciousness

Winner of the 2021 American Botanical Council James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award

Mushrooms have been used as medicine for thousands of years and their value in boosting immunity, improving memory, and even fighting cancer is being recognized and documented in scientific research. Christopher Hobbs, a mycologist and herbalist at the forefront of contemporary research, profiles the most powerful medicinal mushrooms and explains the nutritional and medicinal compounds in each one. Detailed instructions cover how to select, store, and prepare each variety for use. Whether readers are growing or foraging their own mushrooms, or sourcing them from a local provider, this essential handbook will guide them in making health-boosting medicine.

Winner of the CBHL Award of Excellence

California Mushrooms: The Comprehensive Identification Guide - by Desjardin, Dennis E.; Wood, Michael G.; Stevens, Frederick A.

California is one of the most ecologically rich and diverse regions of North America, and home to hundreds of species of mushrooms. In California Mushrooms, mycologist experts Dennis Desjardin, Michael Wood, and Fred Stevens provide over 1100 species profiles, including comprehensive descriptions and spectacular photographs. Each profile includes information on macro- and micromorphology, habitat, edibility, and comparisons with closely related species and potential look-alikes. Although the focus of the book is on mushrooms of California, over 90% of the species treated occur elsewhere, making the book useful throughout western North America. This complete reference covers everything necessary for the mushroom hunter to accurately identify over 650 species.

• ISBN13: 9781604693539
• ISBN10: 1604693533
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-08-12
• Publisher: Timber Press

Author Biography

Dennis E. Desjardin teaches biology at San Francisco State University. He received a master’s degree from San Francisco State University and a PhD from the University of Tennessee. Desjardin is a fellow of the Mycological Society of America, and a winner of the Alexopoulos Prize for outstanding research, the William H. Weston Award for teaching excellence, and a fellowship with the California Academy of Sciences. He has published over 140 scientific papers on the taxonomy and evolution of mushroom-forming fungi.

Michael G. Wood, a California native, is a computer consultant by profession and a mycologist and photographer by obsession. He is a past president of the Mycological Society of San Francisco (MSSF) and chair of its systematics committee; the publisher and webmaster for MykoWeb (mykoweb.com); and the former webmaster for the MSSF and the North American Mycological Association (NAMA) websites. Wood has been an avid mushroom collector, photographer, and taxonomist for over 30 years. His mushroom photographs have been published in many scientific journals, books, magazines, newspapers, and websites. He has led numerous workshops and countless forays for the MSSF and others, and is currently collaborating on a second book, Mushrooms of the Great Smoky Mountains.

Frederick A. Stevens has a doctorate in botany from UCLA. He has photographed and studied the macrofungi of the San Francisco Bay Area for more than two decades, with a special interest in gasteromycetes and the genus Agaricus. Stevens is the coauthor, with Michael G. Wood, of The Fungi of California (californiafungi.com), and a past president of the Mycological Society of San Francisco. He has led numerous mushroom walks and consults with physicians and veterinarians on mushroom poisonings.

California Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Evergreen Huckleberries to Wild Ginger

by Judith Larner Lowry

“This book is an excellent deep dive into California’s wild edibles, revealing a real affection for and intimate familiarity with our state’s flora.” —Iso Rabins, founder of ForageSF

California offers a veritable feast for foragers, and with Judith Larner Lowry as your trusted guide you will learn how to safely find and identify an abundance of delicious wild plants. The plant profiles in California Foraging include clear, color photographs, identification tips, guidance on how to ethically harvest, and suggestions for eating and preserving. A handy seasonal planner details which plants are available during every season. Thorough, comprehensive, and safe, this is a must-have for foragers in the Golden State.

Page Count 344 pages

Publisher Timber Press

ISBN-13 9781604694208