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Mushrooms have been the stuff of dreams, fairy tales, and even hallucinations. Kane explores the history, folklore, and future of common and not-so-common fungi. She catalogs iconic fungi species and details their lore and mystical properties. She also provides helpful guidance on enhancing your magical practice with mushrooms, including utilizing color energies and spellwork to manifest your intentions. -- adapted from back cover.

"Meetings with remarkable mushrooms are an all-year event for Australian ecologist Alison Pouliot. Bifurcating her life between the northern and southern hemispheres, she ensures that she experiences two autumns per year and has double the chances to find fungi. In this book, she uses visits around the world to show readers the diversity of this life--and makes the case that appreciating fungi is a key to understanding the power and fragility of our...

"...this comprehensive cookbook and expert guide will expand your culinary knowledge of wild and cultivated mushrooms. Foraging for mushrooms is a seasonal pursuit that can be done in large groups or in peaceful solitude. Spring brings the promise of morels, late summer bears the first chanterelles, and autumn welcomes an explosion of mushrooms. In this illuminating handbook on all things fungi, Bill Jones, an acknowledged expert in the field of wild...

"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces how mushrooms grow to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--

"If you were a fungus, what would you do? Would you live in the mountains or the city? Or on some cheese?! Discover more in this colorful introduction to these surprisingly fascinating life-forms!"--

"The skills that we learn bind our lives together. Do you want to know how to grow your own food? Or how to keep bees? How to forage for edible seaweed along the shoreline, or wild greens down by the stream? Maybe you're curious about growing mushrooms or how to grow the perfect tomato. You're invited to make these skills your own. Designed to be read with a pot of tea by your elbow and a notebook beside you, Milkwood is all you need to start living...

Baby Mushroom grows in the forest, and her bright red cap warns hungry animals to stay away and not nibble.

"Foraging Mushrooms of the Rocky Mountains provides detailed descriptions of edible mushrooms; tips on finding, preparing, and using mushrooms; a glossary of botanical terms; color photos"--