DIY Mushroom Cultivation: Growing Mushrooms at Home for Food, Medicine, and Soil (Homegrown City Life, 6) by Willoughby Arevalo
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"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.
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Date Published: 29/08/2019
ISBN: 9780865718951
Number of pages: 208
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