DIY Mushroom Cultivation: Growing Mushrooms at Home for Food, Medicine, and Soil (Homegrown City Life)
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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 spaceInexpensive, simple DIY equipmentCulture creation from mushroom tissue or sporesGrowing and using liquid cultures and grain spawnGrowing mushrooms on waste streams Indoor fruitingOutdoor mushroom gardens and logsHarvesting, 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.
From the Publisher
Homegrown City Life Series
You’d like to be self-sufficient, but the space you have available is tighter than your budget. If this sounds familiar, the Homegrown City Life Series was created just for you! Our authors bring country living to the city with big ideas for small spaces. Topics include cheesemaking, fermenting, gardening, composting and, more—everything you need to create your own homegrown city life!
In This Series The Artisan Herbalist The Art of Plant-Based Cheesemaking DIY Autoflowering Cannabis DIY Kombucha DIY Sourdough The Elderberry Book The Food Lover’s Garden Pure Charcuterie
Making Teas, Tinctures, and Oils At Home
Bring mushrooms into your life as you dive into the practice of home-scale mushroom cultivation
Includes
What Are MushroomsMushrooms in EcosystemsWhat Mushrooms Need to Survive and Thrive
Workspaces, Tools & Equipment
Includes
The Lab Environment and ToolsWhere to Incubate Growing MyceliumFruiting Spaces: Factors to Consider
Starting & Maintaining Cultures
Includes
Get CulturedLiquid Culture & Agar CultureLong-Term Culture Storage Methods
Herbal Allies
Spawning & Flowering Mushrooms
Includes
Using and Making Grain SpawnContainers for Mycelial Growth & FruitingUsing and Working with Substrates
Outdoor Growing
Includes
Growing Mushrooms on Logs & StumpsMushroom BedsNext Level Applications
Harvesting & Processing
Includes
How and When to HarvestCooking Techniques & Preservation MethodsMushroom and Mycelium for Medicine
In This Series
The Artisan Herbalist
From urban apartments to wild countryside, The Artisan Herbalist teaches how to identify, grow, harvest, forage, and craft 38 herbs into an assortment of teas, tinctures, creams, and salves to be used at home, shared with friends, or sold at market.
Your Indoor Herb Garden
Your Indoor Herb Garden is a comprehensive guide to the techniques and equipment for successfully growing culinary and medicinal herbs indoors. Written by a Master Gardener with five decades of experience in herb growing, it also includes coverage of herb harvesting, use, and lore and history.
DIY Autoflowering Cannabis
DIY Auto-flowering Cannabis is a complete, full-color how-to guide to cultivating these small, container-grown, fast-producing, day-neutral plants, while reaping their many benefits. If you can grow a tomato, you can grow and enjoy auto-flowering cannabis; no special equipment required.
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ASIN : B07HNPJ351
Publisher : New Society Publishers (July 16, 2019)
Publication date : July 16, 2019
Language : English
File size : 34124 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 203 pages
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