Over the past 4 years, here in this woodland, Coed Talylan, on the western edge of the Brecon Beacons, we have been carefully observing how this former spruce plantation is…
Fungi Amazonica – Interview with Jeremiah Gillanders
I understand that you are originally from the States, can you tell us about how it is you came to live and work in Peru? I came to Peru…
MI-FI
“In truth, I was simply in the presence of a very ordinary product of the earth, of singular and gigantic proportions. My uncle unhesitatingly called them by their real names.…
Grain to Grain Transfer
After sufficient incubation your fully myceliated grain is now ready for inoculating a suitable growing substrate or for exponential expansion of your stock of cultured grain. There are two things…
Brown Rice Flour and Vermiculite Cakes
This is a technique for growing many different species of medicinal and gourmet mushrooms indoors relatively quickly. The porus structure of the vermiculite provides the surface area for the fungal…
Creating a New Strain
Indoor Growing
One easy method to grow mushroom indoors is to make a simple growing chamber with a plastic storage container. In short, you can use perlite, an industrial mineral with a…
Master Culture Slants
Cloning a Mushroom Strain
Agar Media
The first stage of mushroom cultivation involves culturing a strain of the fungus you want to grow onto a medium you can work with. Making cardboard spawn is a very…