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Volume I: April 1992 – April 1993 (13 Issues)
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Table of Contents
April 1992
Our First Issue – We started with four pages [Free PDF – 24K – Click Here]
- Our welcome to our first readers
- A brief explanation of who we are and our original intent with the newsletter
- A request for our reader’s help in making this the best newsletter of its kind
- The U.S. Specialty Mushroom Industry in 1991
- Mt. Shasta Mycological Society
- For the Beginner: A bit of mushroom biology
- Shiitake Cultivation on Logs: The Very Basics
May 1992
- A Mushroom Cooperative: Trying to Get One Started (it never did)
- Oyster Mushrooms: The Very Basics
- Oyster Research: Alfalfa as a Substrate Amendment
- Setting Up a Growing Room
- Announcement: Training Opportunities at Penn State
June 1992
- What About Morels: How to grow morels, according to the patents
- News: Growers in Northern California/Southern Oregon
- Announcement: North American Mushroom Conference
- West Coast Shiitake Market: The Ups and Downs
- The American Mushroom Institute
- Oyster Hint: Controlling Trichoderma
July 1992
- News: Report on a Co-Operative Organizational Meeting
- The National Agriculture Library
- A Quote: from Jerry Larson, International Trade Manager, Oregon Department of Agriculture
- Mycorrhizal Mushrooms
- The Northwest Shiitake Association
- Announcement: Wild Mushrooms Telluride
August 1992
- Fungus Humungus: An Oyster Grower’s Experience
- Oysters and Lungs
- Stropharia Mushrooms: The Very Basics
- News: More on the Attempt to Create a Co-op
September 1992
- In The News
- Giant Puffball from Sequim, Washington
- Fungi That Eat TNT and PCB’s
- Reishi Ad Seen in Psychology Today (Organotech)
- Reishi Ad Seen in Vegetarian Times (Tashi Enterprises)
- Shiitake Recipe in Cooking Light (Balsamic Peppers and Shiitake Mushrooms)
- Shiitake Volume in the U.S. According to the USDA
- Morels Mentioned in an AP story
- Oregon Groups Claim Matsutake are More Valuable than Trees
- Local Paper Responds to Matsutake Claims
- About Matsutake
- Book Review: Reishi Mushroom – Herb of Spiritual Potency and Medical Wonder
- Growing Reishi on Logs: The Very Basics
- Co-Op News
October 1992
- Matsutake Note
- Getting Organic Certification in Oregon
- Oregon Tilth: Oregon’s Organic Certifier
- USDA Statistics for 1991-1992
- Protecting Your Lungs from Oyster Spores
- The North American Truffling Society
- Fungi as Herbicides
November 1992
- Terminology: Common terms used by mushroom growers
- Shiitake Production Factors: What to consider as you try to increase yields
- Behind the Statistics: How does the USDA get the annual data?
- Semi-Wild Cultivation: The basics of getting mushrooms into your backyard
December 1992 – We grow to six pages
- Expansion: Newsletter goes to six pages and reaches 19 states plus 2 provinces
- In The News
- Illegal Mushroom Picking in the National Parks
- Matsutake Debate in Local Newspaper
- Matsutake Picker Dies in the Woods (Homicide)
- Reishi/Shiitake: Futurebiotics markets a blend in capsules
- Armillaria ostoya: The world’s largest living thing?
- Reishi Follow-Up: No tea from Min Tong
- Shiitake Mushroom Cultivation: The basics according to the U.S. Forest Service
- Log Yard Waste: A potential substrate for mushrooms?
- Oyster Grading: Proposals for grading standards
- Graphics: U.S. Specialty Mushroom Production volume and value, 1988-1992
- Letter: More info on protection from oyster spores
January 1993
- Mushrooms Around the World: Which species are popular where
- Cancer in Rodents: Mushrooms shown to inhibit tumors
- Shiitake Yields: Results of a laboratory experiment
- Nutritional Value of Mushrooms
- In The News
- Your Editor In the Local Student Newspaper
- Zoomin’ Shrooms: Student humor
- Agroforestry: Growing mushrooms in a woodlot
- Field and Stream Reviews Edible Wild Mushrooms of North America
- Better Living Through Fungus and Wine: The Sutter Home Winery Ad Campaign
- Matsutake: Notes from local newspapers
- The Westbury Collection Catalog sells dried wild mushrooms
- Oyster Experience: Alfalfa boosts oyster yields
February 1993
- Special Brochure Insert: The Oyster Mushroom – An Adventure in Gourmet Cuisine
- In The News
- Concern: Do Mushroom Pickers Affect the Forest
- General Shiitake Information: Where to look
- A Small-Scale Agriculture Alternative: Mushrooms (an earlier version of the USDA Shiitake Fact Sheet located in these archives)
- National Agriculture Library – Revisited
- Mushrooms in the House: Feed the family year-round
March 1993
- In The News
- Notes from Vegetarian Times
- Nutraceuticals
- Gardening With Mushrooms: North American Mycological Association distributes brochure
- Office of Smale-Scale Agriculture Offers Free Newsletter
- Ideas for Marketing: Using your newspaper and our newsletter to expand your markets
- Sawdust Substrate for Shiitake: What the literature says about mixes
April 1993
- Bits and Pieces (The new name for our monthly summary of news and notes)
- Small Farms to Make a Come Back?
- Marketing With a Paper Bag
- Imposter Fungus: Puccinia monoica
- Wholesale Markets: Which ones report mushroom sales and how to contact them
- Book Review: The Mushroom Researcher
- Book Review: Genetics and Breeding of Edible Mushrooms
- Shiitake on Sawdust Part 2: After you get the substrate prepared
- Weekly Wholesale Market Prices: San Francisco
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