Grow Your Own Mushrooms: A Beginner's Guide : An Illustrated Guide to Cultivating Your Own Mushrooms at Home - Tavis Lynch

Grow Your Own Mushrooms: A Beginner's Guide

An Illustrated Guide to Cultivating Your Own Mushrooms at Home

By: Tavis Lynch

Paperback | 6 August 2024 | Edition Number 2

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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.

Grow Your Own Mushrooms features techniques for both outdoor logs and indoor trays, tips for storage, and techniques for use.

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 compost
Troubleshoot problems, including identification, underwatering, overwatering, and insects
Store, dry, and freeze your mushroom harvest
Cook with mushrooms, including variety-specific cooking tips and 8 tasty recipes
Find supplies and more information with the resources listed at the back of the book


After 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.

About the Author

Tavis Lynch has been studying mushrooms for over three decades and teaches several mycology classes throughout the Upper Midwest. He is a regular guest on Wisconsin Public Radio and has been featured on "Around the Farm Table" on PBS. He owns and operates a large-scale mushroom farm in the north woods, growing mushrooms with a unique method that he developed. He is the author of Mushroom Cultivation and the co-author of The Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms.

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