Essential Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms: Simple and Advanced Techniques for Growing Shiitakes, Oysters, Lion's Manes, Maitakes, and Portabellas at Home

A practical guide to cultivating mushrooms in one's own home provides easy-to-follow instructions accompanied by step-by-step photographs that reveal how to produce many different varieties of mushroom for use in the home kitchen or for a small business. Original.
Offers guidance and instructions for creating ideal environments for growing oyster, shiitake, lion's mane, and maitake mushrooms.
Taking the guess work out of growing mushrooms, Russel gives the reader step by step instructions and practical advice on cultivating mushrooms at home. Using everyday household equipment, Russel shows how even a beginner can grow such popular species as oyster, shiitake, lion’s mane, and maitake mushrooms. The book covers sanitation processes, methods of inoculation, substrate types appropriate for different species, mushroom preservation, and how to make spore prints to grow the next crop. This guide would be of interest to any hobbyist, from one who has never grown mushrooms to one who is looking for new techniques to improve their yields. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
With clear instructions and step-by-step photographs, this comprehensive guide shows you how to cultivate mushrooms in your own home, producing shiitakes, oysters, lion's manes, maitakes, and portabellas for your kitchen or for a small business. Beginners will learn the best way to use a mushroom kit, as well as how to maintain the sterile procedures and controlled environment that cultivation requires. Novices and the more experienced will learn how to create grain spawn or sawdust spawn and how to use liquid cultures and fruiting chambers. Advanced readers will gain a thorough knowledge of how to work with large-scale grain spawn, agar, bag cultures, bulk substrates, and large fruiting chambers to produce mushrooms consistently and in greater quantity.