PRESENTS

• 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

January 1993 Issue (U.S.A, Canada, Mexico)	$3.00
January 1993 Issue (Elsewhere in the World)	$6.00

• 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

February 1993 Issue (U.S.A, Canada, Mexico)	$3.00
February 1993 Issue (Elsewhere in the World)	$6.00

• 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

March 1993 Issue (U.S.A, Canada, Mexico)	$3.00
March 1993 Issue (Elsewhere in the World)	$6.00

• 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

April 1993 Issue (U.S.A, Canada, Mexico)	$3.00
April 1993 Issue (Elsewhere in the World)	$6.00

• Bits and Pieces
  • Oyster Production Explodes in China
  • Westinghouse Prize to Mushroom Researcher
  • Terence McKenna in Omni
  • Amazing Morels - In the Phoenix, Arizona desert
• Orleans Workshop: Mo-Mei Chen, University of California explains how to grow mushrooms
• Photo Page: Mo-Mei Chen in Action
• Question and Answer: Poisoning from Verpa bohemica
• Weekly Wholesale Market Prices: San Francisco

May 1993 Issue (U.S.A, Canada, Mexico)	$3.00
May 1993 Issue (Elsewhere in the World)	$6.00

• Bits and Pieces
  • Loggers Adjust with Mushrooms
  • Morel Season Approaches
  • Taxol from a Fungus
  • European Mushrooms Become Scarce
  • Forest Service Sells Morels
  • Correction to Mo-Mei's substrate recipe in the last issue
  • Testing Shiitake Strains on Commercially Prepared Straw Substrate
  • Value of Oregon Mushroom Production in 1992
  • Forest Service Publishes: Biology, Ecology, and Social Aspects of Wild Edible Mushrooms in the Forests of the Pacific Northwest - A Preface to Managing Commercial Harvest
• Albany Seminar: Northwest Mycological Consultants present a two-day seminar and we report the details
• Photo Page: Activities at the Seminar
• Weekly Wholesale Market Prices: San Francisco

June 1993 Issue (U.S.A, Canada, Mexico)	$3.00
June 1993 Issue (Elsewhere in the World)	$6.00

• Special Insert: A Small-Scale Ag Alternative - Shiitake Mushrooms
• Bits and Pieces
  • Wild Mushrooms and Market Potential
  • Fungus as a Pesticide (Beauveria bassiana )
  • Guns Fired Among Matsutake Pickers
  • British Journal Available: Mycological Research - The International Journal of Fungal Biology
  • Indian Journal Available: Mushroom Research - International Journal of Mushroom Research and Development
  • Mushroom, The Journal of Wild Mushrooming mentions our newsletter
• World-Wide Production of Cultivated Edible Mushrooms 1986 and 1989/1990
• Shiitake Seminar Growers' Panel: Production questions answered
• Shiitake Exudate: What is that yellow to brown liquid anyway?
• Earth Tube Heat Exchangers: A low cost way to temperature control
• Letter: How to market home-grown button mushrooms
• Truffles Make ComeBack: Last years production is doubled and prices drop
• Weekly Wholesale Market Prices: San Francisco

July 1993 Issue (U.S.A, Canada, Mexico)	$3.00
July 1993 Issue (Elsewhere in the World)	$6.00

• Bits and Pieces
  • How to Get Paper Copies of Small-Scale Agriculture Fact Sheets
  • Another Mushroom Murder
  • USDA Publication: Collection of Entomopathogenic Fungal Cultures
  • The Produce News
  • Some See Growth in Specialty Mushrooms
  • Shiitake Festival in Charlottesville, Virginia
• Video Review: Growing Shiitake (North Carolina A&T State University)
• Oikawa Shiitake Farm - Philomath, Oregon: Shiitake on sawdust
• Photo Page: Oikawa Shiitake Farm
• Market Prices: Some interpretation
• Weekly Wholesale Market Prices: San Francisco

August 1993 Issue (U.S.A, Canada, Mexico)	$3.00
August 1993 Issue (Elsewhere in the World)	$6.00

• Bits and Pieces
  • The Ethnic Marketplace
• Fear and Delight in Mushrooms: Human attitudes
• President Clinton's Forest Plan and Fungi
• Green Peak Mushroom Farm, Bellfountain, Oregon: Shiitake on Natural Logs
• Picture Page: Green Peak Mushroom Farm
• Matsutake in Smithsonian and on Japanese TV
• Anyone growing shiitake on maple trees?
• Weekly Wholesale Market Prices: San Francisco

September 1993 Issue (U.S.A, Canada, Mexico)	$3.00
September 1993 Issue (Elsewhere in the World)	$6.00

• Bits and Pieces
  • Helvellas
  • Hen-of-the-Woods (Grifola frondosa )
  • Mushrooms: A Fine Agricultural Crop
  • Canned Mushrooms Destroyed
  • Matsutake Pickers Invade
  • Mushrooms, Guns and Money in Outside Magazine
• U.S. Production 1992-1993
• Filter Patch Sizes for Shiitake
• Special Forest Products Workshop in Redway California
• Weekly Wholesale Market Prices: San Francisco

October 1993 Issue (U.S.A, Canada, Mexico)	$3.00
October 1993 Issue (Elsewhere in the World)	$6.00

• Bits and Pieces
  • Taxing the Wild Mushrooms
  • Mushroom Gold
  • Special Rules at Oregon Dunes
  • Black Truffles attempted in Texas
  • President's Plan fails to protect fungi?
• Wild Shiitake? No - not yet.
• Graphics: Specialty Mushroom Statistics 1987 through 1993
• Matsutake News and You
• Mushroom Flies and How to Control Them
• Market Notes: Some interpretation
• Weekly Wholesale Market Prices: San Francisco

November 1993 Issue (U.S.A, Canada, Mexico)	$3.00
November1993 Issue (Elsewhere in the World)	$6.00

• Bits and Pieces
  • The Honda Shiitake
  • Nematodes Eaten by Oysters
  • Laboratory Cultivated Truffles
  • Shiitake and Berries in New Farm Magazine
  • Grow Your Own Mushrooms in Organic Gardening Magazine
  • Forest Service Publishes: Income Opportunities in Special Forest Products
  • Proceedings of the Western Forestry Nursery Association Conference Available
  • A Mushroom Christmas - According to the Catalogs
• Matsutake Postscript
• U.S. Truffle Grower Finally Succeeds!
• Straw Substrate for Shiitake - An Update
• New Oregon Law May Affect Growers
• Weekly Wholesale Market Prices: San Francisco

December 1993 Issue (U.S.A, Canada, Mexico)	$3.00
December 1993 Issue (Elsewhere in the World)	$6.00