DIY Mushroom Cultivation: Growing Mushrooms at Home for Food, Medicine, and Soil

"Offering clear and comprehensive instructions for low-tech growing for a range of budgets, interests, and scales, this book offers practical inspiration and a sense that "hey, I can do this!" –— DANIELLE STEVENSON, owner, DIY Fungi

DIY Mushroom Cultivation is full of proven, reliable, low-cost techniques for home-scale cultivation that eliminate the need for a clean-air lab space to grow various mushrooms and their mycelium.

Beautiful full-color photos and step-by-step instructions accompany a foundation of mushroom biology and ecology to support a holistic understanding of the practice. Growing techniques are applicable year-round, for any space from house to apartment, and for any climate, budget, or goal. Techniques include:

• Setting up a home growing space • Inexpensive, simple DIY equipment • Culture creation from mushroom tissue or spores • Growing and using liquid cultures and grain spawn • Growing mushrooms on waste streams Indoor fruiting • Outdoor mushroom gardens and logs • Harvesting, processing, tinctures, and cooking.

Whether you hunt mushrooms or dream about growing and working with them but feel constrained by a small living space, DIY Mushroom Cultivation is the ideal guide for getting started in the fascinating and delicious world of fungiculture.

© 2019 New Society Publishers (E-bog): 9781771422840

Release date

E-bog: 16. juli 2019