Resources

General Information

• University of Kentucky Department of Forestry Shiitake Mushrooms (Non-Timber Forest Products) Website (https://forestry.ca.uky.edu/mushrooms): Includes downloadable PDF workbooks on different aspects of shiitake mushroom cultivation, care, harvesting, marketing, etc.

Mushroom Blogs

• Cornell Mushroom Blog (https://blog.mycology.cornell.edu/): Online resources posted by Dr. Kathie T. Hodge who is an Associate Professor of Mycology in the Department of Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology at Cornell University

Mushroom Books

• Rogers, Robert 2011 The Fungal Pharmacy: The Complete Guide to Medicinal Mushrooms and Lichens of North America. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books. https://books.google.com/books?id=1zc-eR5DY_QC
• Roody, William C. 2003 Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. https://books.google.com/books?id=VXosnwEACAAJ
• Stamets, Paul 2000 Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. https://books.google.com/books?id=y1fnacRg1AYC
• — 2011 Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World. New York: Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony. https://books.google.com/books?id=qtsTH7ekvVYC
• Stamets, Paul, and Jeff S. Chilton 1983 The Mushroom Cultivator: A Practical Guide to Growing Mushrooms at Home. Olympia, WA: Agarikon Press. https://books.google.com/books?id=0NaDp4CeVB0C
• Stamets, Paul, and C. Dusty Wu Yao 2002 Mycomedicinals: An Informational Booklet on Medicinal Mushrooms. Olympia, WA: MycoMedia. https://books.google.com/books?id=f9jiAAAAMAAJ  

Scholarly Publications

• International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms (https://www.begellhouse.com/journals/medicinal-mushrooms.html): Comprehensive contemporary scholarly research on medicinal mushrooms; requires subscription to access full articles, but tables of content for issues and article abstracts are viewable for free
• Jin, Xingzhong, et al. 2016 Ganoderma lucidum (Reishi mushroom) for cancer treatment. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (4). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD007731.pub3
• Klupp, Nerida L., et al. 2015 Ganoderma lucidum mushroom for the treatment of cardiovascular risk factors. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD007259.pub2

Suppliers

• Field and Forest Products, Inc. (https://www.fieldforest.net/): “A family-owned source for specialty organic mushroom spawn and cultivation supplies since 1983;” one of the best sources of supplies and basic instructional knowledge for mushroom cultivation

Workshops

• Forest Retreats (https://forestretreats.net/): Various homesteading related workshops, including mushroom log inoculation and wildcrafting

Look for updates and additional resources in the future!