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How to Grow Shiitake Mushrooms OK, not the greatest picture - but man was it a tasty mushroom! Growing Shiitake on Oak LogsI've confessed before that I am a little obsessed with mushrooms - from growing oyster mushrooms in coffee grounds, to learning about edible wild mushrooms. (I'm still too nervous to eat them though!) Yesterday I finally got a reward for one of my more long term mushroom projects - growing shitake on oak logs. It's way easier than you might think. Last Spring I contacted a local tree surgeon and scored a truck load of oak logs that had been cut down from a neighbor's yard - you need to let them sit for 3 weeks or so to allow the natural fungicides in the live tree to die back. Updated: Here's a step-by-step pictorial of the process courtesy of furtwangl on Flickr. Step One: Drill the Holes furtwangl/CC BY 2.0 Step Two: Insert Spawn Step Three: Wax Over Holes Step Four: There is no step four.... My mushroom logs stacked behind the barn. Soaking this log in the creek will hopefully induce fruiting

Coffee Grinds to Mushrooms Yup. I’m not pulling your leg and I’m not kidding you around; oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) are a species of fungus that can digest coffee grinds, including the filters that they are often discarded with, and produce reliable crops of mushrooms. I was skeptical at first but after doing what seemed to be no more than a month casually searching through online do-it-yourself blogs and investigating companies which distribute mushroom kits and spawn (such as The Mushroom Patch) I had the confidence to give it a shot. Approximately one month after mixing together the coffee grinds and mycelium together, the oyster mushrooms are well into their first flush. But why would you want to grow your own mushrooms? Plus you are not just creating any old edible material (Because edible material sounds really appetizing..) but oyster mushrooms, which are delicious and extremely good for you. Step 1. Chances are, there is a coffee shop near where you live. Now all you need is a bucket.

Growing Shiitake Mushrooms Did you know that shiitakes are easy to grow in the home garden? Well they are and they only require a few items beyond the spawn (seeds). But before you jump into the fungus business, there are a few things you will need to know. 1. 2. Once you have your wood source and it is cut, it is time to order your spawn (seed). When your spawn arrives, it will be little dowels that are impregnated with the shiitake spawn. Share: Comments comments MushroomsOn The Menu Related Posts « Spirulina: High in Protein and Nutrients How to Make Your Own Mosquito Repellant » Mushroom Farm, Old Lane, Nethertown, Drighlington, BRADFORD, West Yorkshire, BD11 1LU details | Postcode Finder UK Address Mushroom Farm Old Lane Nethertown Drighlington West Yorkshire Map Google+ MycoKey home Mushrooms: Cultivation, Nutritional Value, Medicinal Effect, and ... - Philip G. Miles, Shu-Ting Chang Since the publication of the first edition, important developments have emerged in modern mushroom biology and world mushroom production and products. The relationship of mushrooms with human welfare and the environment, medicinal properties of mushrooms, and the global marketing value of mushrooms and their products have all garnered great attention, identifying the need for an updated, authoritative reference. Mushrooms: Cultivation, Nutritional Value, Medicinal Effect, and Environmental Impact, Second Edition presents the latest cultivation and biotechnological advances that contribute to the modernization of mushroom farming and the mushroom industry. Rather than providing an encyclopedic review, this book emphasizes worldwide trends and developments in mushroom biology from an international perspective.

Guide to Edible Wild Mushrooms and Fungi Warning: main(./campaign-banner.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/c/e/celtnet/public_html/recipes/ancient/mushroom-guide.php on line 453 Warning: main(): Failed opening './campaign-banner.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/lib/php') in /home/c/e/celtnet/public_html/recipes/ancient/mushroom-guide.php on line 453 Example Entry Below, you will find an example wild food entry produced randomly from our database: Mushroom Guide Entry For: Cep Making Spore Prints If you are picking your own mushrooms from the wild, then one of the key identitying features of a mushroom is what's called the 'spore print'. Many authors suggest that you do this on black paper, but over the years I have found that it's best done on a clear sheet of clean glass. In order to get a spore print you need a mature (well opened) specimen of the fungus or mushroom you are trying to identify. The following day, remove the mug or glass covering the fungus. Mushroom Recipes

Making a wood chip mushroom garden A mushroom garden is a low cost, DIY way to increase the diversity of your home-grown produce, as well as your overall resilience. It’s also surprisingly simple to do, once you understand the basics of how and why. Recently Nick was over in the US doing some training with Paul Stamets at Fungi Perfecti, and one of the many techniques they covered in the the myco-remidation training was making simple mushroom gardens with king stropharia mushrooms… King Stropharia growing in woodchip in Stamets’ forest. Stropharia rugosoannulata are known as King Stropharia, Wine cap mushrooms or Garden Giants. King Stropharia are native to the Northern Hemisphere but are a hardy fungi that will do well with the right growing conditions, which is mainly woodchips, with partial shade. Step 1: dig your hole in a shady place: A shallow semi-circle is dug around the base of a tree (in this case an alder) to provide the fungi with shade, and some scrap cardboard is laid down. Step 2: add your woodchips.

How Heat Affects Fungi | Fungi: Bipolaris | Environmental Reporter Hello, I hope you're doing well and will find the attached articles both interesting and useful. The first is about how heat affects fungi by Dr. Harriet Burge and the second is about the fungi Bipolaris by Dr. Michelle Seidl. With best wishes, Dave Gallup How Does Heat Affect Fungi? The effects of heat on fungi depend on many factors, including the genus, species and strain of the fungus, the amount of available water, kinds of nutrients, and many other environmental factors. Fungi can be divided into groups according to temperature requirements for optimal growth. The groups are as follows: Psychrophiles: with optima less than 10°C Mesophiles: with optima in the room temperature range (18-22°C) Thermophiles: with optima at or above 37°C There are also categories defining the ability of the fungi to withstand different temperature regimes. The effects of heat on fungi are related to the chemical reactions within the fungal cells. Table 1: Fungus of the Month: Bipolaris By Dr.

NAMA: Common Cultivars Oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus and other Pleurotus species) The easiest mushroom to cultivate. Good for beginners. Shiitake (Lentinula edodes) Grow outdoors on logs or indoors on sawdust blocks. King Stropharia or Wine Cap (Stropharia rugoso-annulata) Easy to grow on woodchips outdoors. Stropharia rugusoannulata Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons Maitake (Grifola frondosa) Also known as Hen-of-the-woods. Lions Mane (Hericium erinaceus) Outdoors on logs or indoors on sawdust. Reishi Mushroom (Ganoderma lucidum) Highly esteemed medicinal mushroom. Nameko Mushroom (Pholiota nameko) A very popular cultivated mushroom in Japan. Nameko Mushrooms (Pholiota nameko) on sawdust © Photo by Ron Spinosa Velvet Foot Mushroom aka Enokitake (Flamulina velutipes) Fruits under cool conditions. Brown Beech Mushroom (Hysizygus tessulatus) Also marketed as Buna-shimeji in Japan. Brown Beech Mushroom (Hysizygus tessulatus). The Pioppino Mushroom (Agrocybe aegerita) Also marketed in USA as “Chestnut Mushroom”.

Getting Started with Mushroom Cultivation by Terri Marie Beauséjour Copyright 1999, all rights reserved. This article first appeared in Mushroom: the Journal of Wild Mushrooming. Subscriptions are $25 for four quarterly issues from Mushroom the Journal, 1511 E. 54th St. Chicago, IL 60615. The Wisdom of Simplicity If you have been intrigued by the prospect of growing your own mushrooms, perhaps after a bit of research you became daunted by the complexity and potential expense of "sterile techniques," "clean rooms," "laminar flow hoods" and "agar media." Or perhaps you are the more adventurous type. As chairman of the Cultivation Committee for the Mycological Society of San Francisco (MSSF), I have talked with many aspiring cultivators, and those are two of the most common roadblocks preventing progress in mushroom cultivation. Recognizing the need to help overcome these challenges, the MSSF cultivation committee has periodically offered classes and workshops on how to grow mushrooms. Goals and Objectives The objectives are: Voila!

Oysters and phonebooks (fungi forum at permies) My background with growing mushrooms started out with doing everything sterile. I have been working bit by bit each year to try to reduce all the sterile measures I use and for this oyster mushrooms are great because they're so vigorous. This phone book I originally soaked in a weak solution of bleach water. The stem butt cultures involve no sterile technique whatsoever. I do continue to add materials which are not sterilized to these cultures. As for maintaining humidity it shouldn't be a concern while the cultures are in bags and have adequate water.

Shiitake Phone Book TEK - Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms Right now I am switching careers to become a secondary mathematics teacher. Our family dream is to move to Alaska in about three years, buy between five and ten acres of forested area and basically start a "perma-culture compound". Getting into mushrooming and mycology has given us so many cool tools to dream with. Between getting a new degree in math, and struggling with the crummy income of a musician...I am just too time, and financially strained to go roaming around getting the stuff I need to do a good shiitake TEK with sawdust. As I have been perusing the board however, I found some RR photos of Shiitakes growing on phone books. "You can pasteurize old phone-books and newspapers by placing in a pot of water and heating to 140F to 160F (60C to 70C) for one hour. I can't find a "phone book TEK" anywhere on the board...at least not yet anyway. So does anyone have any ideas on what I would need to do to complete the TEK?

Part II. MUSHROOM CULTIVATION BY PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES - A guide Introduction Introduction to mushroom cultivation Step 1. ABOUT MUSHROOMS Step 2. PRODUCING PDA MEDIUM Step 4. MULTIPLYING SPAWN ON SORGHUM SEEDS Step 5. Introduction Mushrooms can be found in forests around the world. This guide is an introduction to mushroom cultivation and will give basic knowledge and techniques required in mushroom cultivation. Introduction to mushroom cultivation Mushroom cultivation can be summarized with the following major steps: Step 1. Step 1. There are three different groups of mushrooms. Step 2. How to well prepare spawn production is necessary for proper spawn multiplication. Step 3. A young, fresh and very healthy mushroom is used to prepare a tissue culture. Step 4. This is also a highly specialized part of mushroom production and will attract only a few trainees due to its complexity. Step 5. Step 6. Pasteurization is necessary to completely sterilize substrate bags. Step 7. Inoculation must be done with extreme caution. Step 8. Step 9. Step 10. Step 1.