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With the surging interest in foraging for mushrooms, those new to the art need a reliable guide to distinguishing the safe fungi from the toxic. But for beginner foragers who just want to answer the question "Can it eat it?", most of the books on the subject are dry, dense, and written by mycologists for other mycologists. Frank Hyman to the rescue! How to Forage for Mushrooms without Dying is the book for anyone who walks in the woods and would like to learn how to identify just the 29 edible mushrooms they're likely to come across. In it, Hyman offers his expert mushroom foraging advice, distilling down the most important information for the reader in colorful, folksy language that's easy to remember when in the field. Want an easy way to determine if a mushroom is a delicious morel or a toxic false morel? Slice it in half - "if it's hollow, you can swallow," Hyman says.
About the Author
Frank Hyman believes in "happy wife, happy life." So when his wife wanted chickens, he knew they would have chickens. (This isn't just a how-to book. It's also a love story.) But he wanted to be able to go on vacation for two weeks and not come home to a flock of starving chickens. But he found that the conventional wisdom for keeping backyard birds demanded too much time, trouble and money. So as a carpenter, designer and former organic farmer he pulled together 21 very low-tech, very low-cost, very low-maintenance ways to keep their hens happy. In fact they spend less time on chicken chores than it takes to cook their plentiful chicken eggs. Frank calls it Hentopia. He wrote a column about it for Chickens magazine and the columns became this book. And yes, he and his wife, Chris, can go on vacation for two weeks. And no, they don't have to worry about coming home to skinny hens. They made a Hentopia and you can too. You can learn more about Frank at www.hentopiacoops.com.
