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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. About the Author Stephen Russell owns The Hoosier Mushroom Company, the retail outlet for his mushroom farm. He founded the The Hoosier Mushroom Society and travels throughout the year speaking at clubs, festivals, and conferences. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.
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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.
Title: The Complete Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms : Simple and Advanced Techniques for Growing Shiitake, Oyster, Lion's Mane, and Mushrooms at Home
ISBN Number: 1612121462
ISBN-13: 9781612121468
Location Published: USA, Storey Publishing LLC: 2014
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: New
Size: 22.9 x 17.8 x 1.6 cm
Kg: 0.58 Kg
Type: Book
Categories: Growing Fruit & Vegetables
Seller ID: 9781612121468
Keywords: 1612121462, 9781612121468, and mushrooms at home, lion's mane, oyster, simple and advanced techniques for growing shiitake, stephen russell, the complete guide to cultivating mushrooms
