The Essential Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms

Offers guidance and instructions for creating ideal environments for growing oyster, shiitake, lion's mane, and maitake mushrooms.

Préface
With clear instructions and step-by-step photographs, this straightforward guide shows you how to cultivate mushrooms in your own home.

Auteur

Stephen Russell owns The Hoosier Mushroom Company. He founded the The Hoosier Mushroom Society and travels throughout the year speaking at clubs, festivals, and conferences. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

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Harvest Mushrooms at Home

Learn to grow the most popular species - Oyster, Shiitake, Lion's Mane, and Maitake - in controlled indoor environments at home. Beginning with the best ways to ensure success with a kit and proceeding through advanced techniques for creating sawdust spawn, working with liquid cultures and fruiting chambers, and much more, Stephen Russell covers everything the home grower needs to know. A trusted reference for market growers, this book is also the perfect companion for hobbyists craving a steady supply of dinner-table mushrooms.

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Preface

Part 1: Basics for Beginners

1.   Getting to Know Mushrooms
2.   Basic Growing Options
3.   Combating Contaminants

4.   Your First Grow

   Part 2: Intermediate Methods

5.   Pressure Cookers and Flow Hoods
6.   Grain Spawn
7.   Casings
8.   Liquid Cultures
9.   Working with Sawdust

10. Midsize Fruiting Chambers

    Part 3: Advanced Methods

11.   Agar Cultures
12.   Large-Scale Grain Spawn

13.   Bulk Substrates

    Resources
    Index