Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms

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Common saprotrophic mushrooms include the white button and oyster mushrooms. In fact, the easiest mushroom to grow for beginners is the oyster mushroom. They are flavorful and provide known health benefits. cidental ingestion of undesired mushrooms. Recommended mushroom field guides and mushroom identification courses are listed in the Resource section of this book.

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King stropharia are native to Europe and North America. They fruit in the spring and again in the fall (biggest flushes seem to be in spring). More about king stropharia mushrooms: Fear of mushroom poisoning pervades every culture, sometimes reaching phobic extremes. The term mycophobic describes thoseMUSHROOMS, CIVILIZATION & HISTORY Immortality (1976) where he postulated that the mysterious SOMA in the Vedic literature, a red fruit leading to spontaneous enlightenment for those who ingested it, was actually a mushroom. The Vedic symbolism carefully disguised its true identity: Amanita muscaria, the hallucinogenic Nice haul! These two maitakes weighed 25 pounds. Charlie the Cat is in the photo to provide perspective. What do maitake mushrooms grow on? Raw Materials 48 Suitable Wood Types: Candidate Tree Species List of Suitable Tree Species for the Cultivation of Gourmet & Medicinal Mushrooms... 50 53 Cereal Straws 54 Corncobs and Cornstalks 54 Coffe and Banana Plants Shiitakes are native to Asia. There are different shiitake subspecies that fruit at different times of the year – some in cool weather, some in warm weather. More about shiitake mushrooms: When hiking through the mountains, I encountered so many mushrooms. Each was a mystery until I could match them with descriptions in a field guide. I soon came to learn that a mushroom was described as “edible,”“poisonous,” or my favorite, “unknown,” based on the experiences of others like me, who boldly ingested them. People are rarely neutral in their opinion about mushrooms—either they love them or they hate them. I took delight in striking fear into the hearts of the latter group, whose illogical distrust of fungi provoked my overactive imagination.

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thousands of pilgrims journeyed fourteen miles from Athens to Eleusis, paying the equivalent of a month's wage for the privilege of attend-zones of likely candidates is another avenue that costs little in time and effort. Habitats should be selected on the basis of their parallels in nature. For instance, Chanterelles can be found in oak forests of the midwest and in Douglas fir forests of the west. Casting spore mass of Chanterelles into forests similar to those where Chanterelles proliferate is obviously the best choice. Although the success rate is not high, the rewards are well worth the minimum effort involved. Bear in mind that tree roots confirmed to be mycorrhized with a gourmet mushroom will not necessarily result in harvestable mushrooms. Fungi and their host trees may have long associations without the appearance of edible fruitbodies. (For more information, consult Fox (1983)). viability decreases over time. They should be stored in a dark, cool location, low in humidity and free from temperature fluctuation. Techniques for creating cultures from spores are explained further on. come a food source for the mushroom mycelium. The resulting downstream effluent is cleansed of not only carbon/nitrogen-rich

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To use one of these, you create a growing area appropriate for the type of mushroom you want to grow. Different mushrooms grow in different materials, such as wood chips, or even coffee grounds. We’ve encountered folks who say, “I don’t like mushrooms.” To us, that’s like saying, “I don’t like drinking liquid.” rated into an integrated farm model and explored in greater detail in Chapter 5: Permaculture with a Mycological Twist. Cropping Containers Tray Culture Vertical Wall Culture Slanted Wall or "A" Frame Culture Bag Culture Column Culture Bottle Culture Agrocybe spp. and Pholiota spp. The Sweaters Clitocybe spp. * The Inky Caps Coprinus atramentarius C. comatus C. disseminatus C. lagopus C. micaceus & allies The Vomited Scrambled Egg Fungus Fuligo cristata The Deadly Galerinas Galerina autumnalis & allies * * Red-Staining Lepiotas Lepiota spp. ** The Clustered Woodlover Hypholoma capnoides The Green-Gilled Clustered Woodlover Hypholoma fasciculare * The Chestnut Mushroom Hypholoma sublateritium The Deadly Ringed Cone Heads Pholiotina filaris and allies * * Pholiota terrestris and alliesSaprobic fungi are decomposers of tree material.This feature make “decomposers” relatively easy to cultivate. (All you need is logs, wood chips, leaves, etc depending on the species of saprobe you’re cultivating.) Compost! Litter! Disturbed Habitat Mushrooms Shaggy Manes Coprinus comatus Scaly Lepiota Lepiota rachodes * The Termite Mushrooms Termitomyces spp. * The Blewit Lepista nuda dies, from parasitic fungi or other causes, saprophytic fungi come into play. Figure 11. Intrepid amateur mycologist Richard Yew Gaines points to a parasitic fungus Outside, mushrooms will need a shady, humid location that doesn’t get direct sunlight. A patch that’s surrounded by trees or bushes is best.