Grow Your Own Mushrooms: A Beginner's Guide - Tavis Lynch

Learn how to grow wild and exotic, medicinally important, sustainable, and deeply delicious mushrooms right at your own home, just as people throughout the world have been doing for centuries.Grown Your Own Mushrooms—adapted from Mushroom Cultivation—offers photo-illustrated instruction both on how mushrooms grow and how you can cultivate them yourself, with a focus on six types of mushroom: shiitake, oyster, wine cap, hericium, blewit, and agaricus. You’ll learn how to:  Grow mushrooms, step by step, in a variety of different mediums: logs, straw, wood chips and sawdust, and compostTroubleshoot problems, including identification, underwatering, overwatering, and insectsStore, dry, and freeze your mushroom harvestCook with mushrooms, including variety-specific cooking tips and 8 tasty recipesFind supplies and more information with the resources listed at the back of the bookAfter reading Grow Your Own Mushrooms, you’ll discover that growing a mushroom is really no more difficult than growing a tomato. You just need a slightly different set of skills.Get started growing your own marvelous mushrooms with this easy-to-follow beginner’s guide.