Grow Your Own Mushrooms: A Beginner's Guide: An Illustrated Guide to Cultivating Your Own Mushrooms at Home

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Grow Your Own Mushrooms features techniques for both outdoor logs and indoor trays, tips for storage, and techniques for use.


Grown Your Own Mushrooms- adapted from Mushroom Cultivation- offers photo-illustrated instruction both on how mushrooms grow and how you can cultivate them yourself, with a focus on six types of mushroom: shiitake, oyster, wine cap, hericium, blewit, and agaricus. You'll learn how to:
Grow mushrooms, step by step, in a variety of different mediums: logs, straw, wood chips and sawdust, and compost
Troubleshoot problems, including identification, underwatering, overwatering, and insects
Store, dry, and freeze your mushroom harvest
Cook with mushrooms, including variety-specific cooking tips and 8 tasty recipes
Find supplies and more information with the resources listed at the back of the book


After reading Grow Your Own Mushrooms, you'll discover that growing a mushroom is really no more difficult than growing a tomato. You just need a slightly different set of skills.
Get started growing your own marvelous mushrooms with this easy-to-follow beginner's guide.

Author Bio

Tavis Lynch has been studying mushrooms for over three decades and teaches several mycology classes throughout the Upper Midwest. He is a regular guest on Wisconsin Public Radio and has been featured on "Around the Farm Table" on PBS. He owns and operates a large-scale mushroom farm in the north woods, growing mushrooms with a unique method that he developed. He is the author of Mushroom Cultivation and the co-author of The Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms.