'Growing Gourmet Mushrooms at Home: An Introductory Guide' by MycoLogic founder and experienced mushroom cultivator Bart Acres is a book designed as a practical manual for those looking to grow their own mushrooms at home in Aotearoa.
Bart has used his two decades of experience in mushroom cultivation to present a distilled, conscise and easy to understand beginners guide which will get you started out on the right foot and growing mushrooms of your own in no time! Including plenty of photos and illustrations to guide you along the way.
This revised, updated and expanded 2nd edition has been released in July 2023.
The booklet covers topics such as:
- Mushroom biology and life cycle
- Cultivation Basics
- Commonly cultivated species in New Zealand
- Preparing spawn and growing mediums
- Growing mushrooms on pasteurised straw and sawdust blocks
- Growing mushrooms on logs
- Making outdoor mushroom patches
- Creating the right fruiting environments for mushrooms
- Harvesting and cooking with mushrooms
- Mushroom growing troubleshooting
- Medicinal mushrooms
And more!
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108 pages, paperback
100% Human created content, no AI
ISBN 978-0-473-68471-6