Year of the Mushroom: An illustrated guide to mushroom identification and edibility

Year of the Mushroom: An illustrated guide to mushroom identification and edibility

Mushroom hunting, collecting, and identifying will open your eyes to an extraordinary new world. After reading this book you’ll be familiar with the characters that appear in woods, meadows, on trees, and even in your own front yard. Once you’ve identified your first mushroom you’ll get the bug (or more precisely the fungus) for observing this amazing little world growing amongst us! Not only this but you’ll be able to enjoy eating something you can’t find in a grocery store, something you’ve found and foraged yourself, something that not only tastes good but is also healthy for you. Along with edible mushrooms, it’s also equally important and interesting to learn about the inedible ones that also play a huge role in the nutrient cycling that is constantly happening out there in nature. So, even though a mushroom isn’t edible that doesn’t mean it’s not worth studying and identifying!