The Essential Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms

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Management number	203688925	Release Date	2025/10/09	List Price	$12.48	Model Number	203688925
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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.

Table of Contents:

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

Stephen Russell owns The Hoosier Mushroom Company. He founded the The Hoosier Mushroom Society and travels throughout the year speaking at clubs, festivals, and conferences. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

Storey Publishing

Pub Date: August 12, 2014

0.6" H x 9.1" L x 7.1" W

232 pages

paperback