PRESENTS

• 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

• 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

May 1992 Issue (U.S.A, Canada, Mexico)	$3.00
May 1992 Issue (Elsewhere in the World)	$6.00

• 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

June 1992 Issue (U.S.A, Canada, Mexico)	$3.00
June 1992 Issue (Elsewhere in the World)	$6.00

• 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

July 1992 Issue (U.S.A, Canada, Mexico)	$3.00
July 1992 Issue (Elsewhere in the World)	$6.00

• 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

August 1992 Issue (U.S.A, Canada, Mexico)	$3.00
August 1992 Issue (Elsewhere in the World)	$6.00

• 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

September 1992 Issue (U.S.A, Canada, Mexico)	$3.00
September 1992 Issue (Elsewhere in the World)	$6.00

• 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

October 1992 Issue (U.S.A, Canada, Mexico)	$3.00
October 1992 Issue (Elsewhere in the World)	$6.00

• 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

November 1992 Issue (U.S.A, Canada, Mexico)	$3.00
November 1992 Issue (Elsewhere in the World)	$6.00

• 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

December 1992 Issue (U.S.A, Canada, Mexico)	$3.00
December 1992 Issue (Elsewhere in the World)	$6.00