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50 Things To Know To Have A Better Life: Self-Improvement Made Easy!
Author Dannii Cohen
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This book is very helpful and provides simple tips on how to improve your everyday life. I found it to be useful in improving my overall attitude.
50 Things to Know For Your Mindfulness & Meditation Journey Author Nina Edmondso
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Quick read with 50 short and easy tips for what to think about before starting to homeschool.
50 Things to Know About Getting Started with Homeschool by Author Amanda Walton
I really enjoyed the voice of the narrator, she speaks in a soothing tone. The book is a really great reminder of things we might have known we could do during stressful times, but forgot over the years.
Author Harmony Hawaii
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There is so much waste in our society today. Everyone should be forced to read this book. I know I am passing it on to my family.
50 Things to Know to Downsize Your Life: How To Downsize, Organize, And Get Back to Basics
Author Lisa Rusczyk Ed. D.
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Great book to get you motivated and understand why you may be losing motivation. Great for that person who wants to start getting healthy, or just for you when you need motivation while having an established workout routine.
50 Things To Know To Stick With A Workout: Motivational Tips To Start The New You Today
Author Sarah Hughes
50 THINGS TO KNOW About
Mushroom Hunting
Finding Edible Treasures
in Your Backyard
Rebecca Wescott
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50 Things to Know About Mushroom Hunting
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Have you ever looked at a yard full of mushrooms that popped up overnight and wondered if they were poisonous? Have you taken a walk in the woods and stumbled on a mushroom youve never seen before? Does the idea of tasting amazing new flavors you found yourself appeal to you?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is for you...
50 Things About Mushroom Hunting, by author Rebecca Wescott offers an approach to understanding, locating, identifying, and eating these delicious wild fungi. While other books focus on identification or complex science, this book will recommend some quality identification guides and focus on the mystery and enjoyment of pursuing elusive mushroom surprises.
With this book, you will be off into the woods with your boots and bug spray, ready to start your mushroom-hunting experience.
By the time you finish this book, you will know what mushrooms are, where they grow, which ones are edible, and how to enjoy them. So grab YOUR copy today. You'll be glad you did.
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DEDICATION
Dedicated to my husband, Steve, who has helped me learn how to stop getting lost in the woods quite so often and encouraged my writing every step of the way. Also, to Steves brother Tommy, who shares my enjoyment.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rebecca Wescott received her first glowing praise for her high school work and has been hooked ever since. After a BA in English and Creative Writing from Kenyon College, she completed a Master's in Education (Science and English) at the Ohio State University. For the past three years, she worked as a content manager, writer, and editor for a heavy industrial machine company.
She has worked as a teacher, behavior specialist for children with mental health issues, a drug and alcohol counselor, an English teacher, a gas station attendant, a salesperson for industrial equipment, and a content writer and manager for a heavy manufacturing company.
Nature walks, identifying plants and fungi, and harvesting mushrooms to eat have been hobbies for many years, including membership in local and national mushroom hunting clubs. The author spends her warmer days walking at the nearby lake, staring at the ground, and turning things over with sticks.
The author has plans to become a crazy cat lady in the future and feels that five cats are a good start. She collects pens, plays a vicious game of trivial pursuit, and has spent many years developing strategies to prank her teenage daughter in increasingly bizarre ways.
INTRODUCTION
Mushroom experts, formally called mycologists, have a strange sense of humor. Curtis Gates Lloyd, an expert in the field, left this monument as his tombstone:
Monument erected by himself, for himself, during his own lifetime to gratify his own vanity. What fools these mortals be.
-Curtis Gates Lloyd
S tore-bought mushrooms taste bland. Wild mushrooms come with their own exciting flavors, from delicate and fruity like chanterelles to deliciously meaty like chicken of the woods. A few wild mushrooms, like oyster mushrooms and lions mane, can now be grown commercially.
Most wild mushrooms, though, do not grow unless their specific needs are met. If you want them, you will have to either buy wild-harvested ones (very pricey) or harvest your own with just a good pair of boots, a reliable field guide, and a bit of luck. I have a few preferred tools I always take with me, but well review equipment later.
Please do not forget that mushroom hunting can be dangerous, and eating the wrong mushrooms can be fatal. There is no substitute for an experienced mushroom hunting partner and a quality field guide for your area.
1. What Mushrooms Are and What They Do
Mushrooms are the spore-producing bodies of a fungus. Most of the fungus, called a mycelium, lives inside the material it grows on. Pull a piece of crumbling wood off a stump, and you may find white threads running through it. These are hyphae, the strands of fungus that make up the mycelium. Most of the action of digestion and growth happens here. Mushrooms and other odd fruiting bodies are made by the fungus to spread its spores around.
