Teaming With Fungi - Jeff Lowenfels

Teaming with Fungi: The Organic Grower's Guide to Mycorrhizae
by Jeff Lowenfels

Published by Timber Press - April 2017 - Hardcover - 220pp - 23cm x 15cm

Teaming with Fungi is an important guide to mycorrhizae and the role they play in agriculture, horticulture, and hydroponics. Almost every plant in a garden forms a relationship with fungi, and many plants would not exist without their fungal partners. By better understanding this relationship, home gardeners can take advantage of the benefits of fungi, which include an increased uptake in nutrients, resistance to drought, earlier fruiting, and more. This must-have guide will teach you how fungi interact with plants and how to best to employ them in your home garden.

'Accomplishes what few other books have—helping growers use mycorrhizae to improve the immune systems of plants. This natural union between plants and fungi is the foundation of our food web.' — Paul Stamets, author of Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save The World.

Jeff Lowenfels is a well-respected and popular national garden writer. The former president of the Garden Writers of America, he was made a GWA Fellow in 1999. He is also the founder of Plant a Row for the Hungry, a program that advocates for food donation and has led to over a million pounds of produce being donated to the hungry every year. He currently resides in Anchorage, Alaska. He is the author of Teaming with Microbes and Teaming with Nutrients.