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.