The Essential Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms

From the basics of using mushroom kits to working with grain spawn, liquid cultures, and fruiting chambers, Stephen Russell covers everything you need to know to produce mouthwatering shiitakes, oysters, lion's manes, maitakes, and portobellos. Whether you're interested in growing them for your own kitchen or to sell at a local market, you'll soon be harvesting a delicious and abundant crop of mushrooms.

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