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Mushroom Growing Kits - Complete Guide, Reviews and Top Picks

Buying a mushroom growing kit is by far the easiest way to start growing mushrooms at home. That's because edible mushroom grow kits are totally beginner friendly- requiring almost no special skil...

Cold Water Lime Pasteurization For Growing Mushrooms

I’ll admit, pasteurizing straw in hot water with a propane burner can be a bit of a pain. You need a large burner, a full propane tank, and plenty of time to make sure the whole process goes smoot...

Growing Mushrooms on Soy Hulls (The Masters Mix)

One of my favorite things about being a dedicated mushroom grower is that I’m constantly learning new things. As soon as I think I have it all figured out, I’ll try something new that changes eve...

Must Have Equipment For a Mushroom Lab at Home

Building a workable mushroom laboratory at home is one of the best things you can do to increase your mushroom growing prowess. Key skills like making your grain spawn, doing agar work, cloning ...

Using Pressure Cookers for Growing Mushrooms

If you ‘re wanting to grow mushrooms at home, you need to get yourself a dependable pressure cooker. There’s really just no way around it. You see, fighting contaminates is a constant battle. T...

A Mushroom Growers Guide To Preventing Contamination

Growing mushrooms from scratch require a sterile environment, and sterile processes for repeated success. The hard work of transferring cultures on agar, inoculating grain jars, and making fruit...

How To Use Mushroom Grain Spawn

Growing mushrooms starting from ready-made grain spawn is one of the most accessible and beginner friendly ways to get into the hobby of mushroom cultivation. It is slightly more complicated tha...

Understanding Mushroom Substrates

Finding the perfect mushroom substrate for your grow- and getting the right substrate recipe– is one of the most important aspects of mushroom cultivation. New growers will quickly realize th...

How To Build A Shotgun Fruiting Chamber (SGFC) in 5 Easy Steps

We like to pick mushrooms. Unfortunately, mushrooms themselves are picky – and getting mushrooms to fruit properly requires that we present them with ideal growing conditions. Building a Shot...

The Best Books on Mushroom Cultivation

To see further, we stand on the shoulders of giants. Knowledge is power. Why try to reinvent the wheel when we can learn from the failures, successes, and triumphs of others? This applies to mus...

Mushroom Grow Bags: The Ultimate Guide

Mushroom grow bags are an essential tool for cultivation, both for the professional cultivator and the enthusiastic hobbyist. They can be used as spawn bags- in which the bags are used for sterili...

The Complete Guide To Starting A Mushroom Farm

You want to be a mushroom farmer, and I totally understand why. Learning how to grow mushrooms for any reason can be extremely rewarding and engaging. They’re just so interesting! The more you ...