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Paul Stamets
Founder of Fungi Perfecti, Paul Stamets has pioneered countless innovations in the cultivation and use of edible and medicinal mushrooms and has been a dedicated mycologist for over thirty years.
He is the author of The Mushroom Cultivator, Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms, and Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World. He pioneered countless techniques in the field of edible and medicinal mushroom cultivation and received the 1998 "Bioneers Award" from The Collective Heritage Institute. In addition, he is the recipient of the 1999 "Founder of a New Northwest Award" from the Pacific Rim Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils. In 2008, Paul received the National Geographic Adventure Magazine's Green-Novator and the Argosy Foundation's E-chievement Awards.
Paul sees the ancient Old Growth forests of the Pacific Northwest as a resource of incalculable value, especially in terms of its fungal genome. A dedicated hiker and explorer, his passion is to preserve, protect, and clone as many ancestral strains of mushrooms as possible from these pristine woodlands. www.fungi.com
"The rainforests of the Pacific Northwest may harbour mushroom species with profound medicinal properties. At the current rates of extinctions, this last refuge of the mushroom genome should be at the top of the list of priorities for mycologists, environmentalists and government. If I can help advance this knowledge, I will have done my part to protect life on this planet.” ~ Paul Stamets
Please join Paul Stamets for his program, Mushrooms: Wild & Mysterious, October 20 - 24, at Hollyhock.
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