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…
Fungi Amazonica – Interview with Jeremiah Gillanders
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…
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…
Grain Spawn
The following example details how to prepare 1kg of sterilised rye grain for use as growing medium in bulk spawn production. The measurements can then be scaled according to the…
Cultivation
Four Stages of Mushroom Cultivation Inoculum: In order to grow a species of fungi you need a source the mycellium of a strain that will reliably fruit if grown in…