Growing Mushrooms

Start your own mushroom garden using hardwood logs. It's so easy, a beginning homesteader can do it! Give it a try today.

Laetiporus is a genus of edible mushrooms found throughout much of the world. Some species, especially Laetiporus sulphureus, are commonly known as sulphur shelf, chicken of the woods, the chicken mushroom, or the chicken fungus because many think they taste like chicken.

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Learn this simple method to grow mushrooms outdoors in your garden, by creating a woodchip mushroom bed.You'll see how we create a 4m2 mushroom bed and inocu...

Grown on hardwood chip or straw beds, Wine Cap mushrooms grow quickly and their port wine colored caps and white stalks are great for braising, sauteing, grilling or pickling. Use sawdust spawn for quicker fruiting the first year than you get with peg spawn. Sawdust spawn is more susceptible to drying out however, so it should be planted where it can be watered if necessary. Plant in partially shaded areas to reduce the need for watering. One 5.5 lb. bag plants a 50 sq. ft bed of hardwood…

Ganoderma lucidum For centuries, the most exalted of all medicinal mushrooms in the East, known to the Chinese as Ling Chi. More recently its health benefits have been increasingly confirmed by Western studies. Believed to stimulate the body's immune system and induce a peaceful, non-narcotic feeling when ingested. Commonly used broken, powdered and then steeped into a strong flavored tea that most find agreeable. The shiny, deep reddish brown mushrooms with white, porous underlayer are…

Live Item: must be started within 20 days of receipt. Please note: freezing is harmful to most of our Mushroom Patches. If you are having a Mushroom Patch shipped to a location that is experiencing extreme cold, you should consider delivering it to an address where it will be brought inside within several hours of deli

The Reishi Mushroom is relatively easy to grow, beautiful to look at and has the potential to heal. Learn how to grow this fascinating fungus!

A few practical tips on Phase I and Phase II substrate (compost), and the substrate preparation (composting) process, and formulating mushroom compost.

By using a particularly simple technique and getting a bit of insight into how mushrooms grow, it is possible to successfully grow your own gourmet mushrooms at home...

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YourProduceGuy shows you how to make a Morel Mushroom Habitat. Morel Mushrooms are a delicacy that people will go out into the woods to hunt for. A lot of pe...

YourProduceGuy has grown his own morel mushrooms at home and it's time to show them to you. Morel mushrooms are super delicious but a little hard to get your...

this mushroom was actually as big as my hand great day of hunting these and morel mushrooms in April 2011.

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Grown on hardwood chip or straw beds, Wine Cap mushrooms grow quickly and their port wine colored caps and white stalks are great for braising, sauteing, grilling or pickling. Use sawdust spawn for quicker fruiting the first year than you get with peg spawn. Sawdust spawn is more susceptible to drying out however, so it should be planted where it can be watered if necessary. Plant in partially shaded areas to reduce the need for watering. One 5.5 lb. bag plants a 50 sq. ft bed of hardwood…

The fantastical and visually intriguing Reishi are actually polypores whose naturally lacquered surfaces emphasize their brilliant rusty red and buttery yellow hues. Grown primarily as a medicinal mushroom (Reishi's Chinese name "Ling Zhi" translates as "mushroom of immortality"), they are easily dried for use in teas or decorations. Reishi will grow outdoors on natural logs (best in the southern United States) or in sterilized sawdust. Careful manipulation of light, temperature, humidity…