Select a mushroom-growing kit or purchase spores. Kits are ideal for beginners as they contain everything you need, including a substrate (growing medium) inoculated with mushroom spores. Popular ...

If you've ever considered growing mushrooms from home, you likely know how difficult it can be to get started. The fact is, mushrooms require specific conditions to grow, and even the slightest ...

Carrying your brimming plastic laundry basket to the machine, you hear a dreaded crack and feel the weight shift. There goes one of the handles. Its days of toting bundles of clothes may be over, but ...

Spawn plugs before and after the mushroom mycelium has grown on them. Learn how to make mushroom spawn at home on a mushroom grow log to kick-start your backyard permaculture forest. If you’re ...

Need a winter gardening idea? Utah State University Extension recently published a comprehensive guide to help beginners learn to grow gourmet mushrooms. “A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Mushrooms at ...

Mushrooms are healthy, hearty ingredients that can be used for a variety of dishes, but some varieties can be relatively expensive or hard to find in stores. If you're a mushroom lover, you may wonder ...

Matthew McInnis loves mushrooms. He got into them as a teenager while working at a local restaurant on Mt. Desert Island off the coast of Maine. He remembers feeling particularly elated after foraging ...

Mushrooms commonly grow in lawns and gardens; you've likely seen mushrooms cropping up on your lawn after a long period of rain. Mushrooms are the visible fruiting bodies of fungi. They provide an ...

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Growing mushrooms at home is not only difficult but dangerous. With challenges such as costly equipment, unsanitary practices, and, more than anything, time, growing spores from scratch is famously ...