Growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms = : [Shokuy¿‍ oyobi yakuy¿‍ kinoko no saibai

A detailed and comprehensive guide for growing and using gourmet and medicinal mushrooms commercially or at home. “Absolutely the best book in the world on how to grow diverse and delicious mushrooms.”—David Arora, author of Mushrooms Demystified With precise growth parameters for thirty-one mushroom species, this bible of mushroom cultivation includes gardening tips, state-of-the-art production techniques, realistic advice for laboratory and growing room construction, tasty mushroom recipes, and an invaluable troubleshooting guide. More than 500 photographs, illustrations, and charts clearly identify each stage of cultivation, and a twenty-four-page color insert spotlights the intense beauty of various mushroom species. Whether you’re an ecologist, a chef, a forager, a pharmacologist, a commercial grower, or a home gardener—this indispensable handbook will get you started, help your garden succeed, and make your mycological landscapes the envy of the neighborhood. Content: Mushrooms, civilization, and history -- The role of mushrooms in nature -- Selecting a candidate for cultivation -- Natural culture: creating mycological landscapes -- Permaculture with a mycological twist: the Stametsian model for a synergistic mycosphere -- Materials for formulating a fruiting substrate -- Biological efficiency: an expression of yield -- Homemade vs. commercial spawn -- The mushroom life cycle -- The six vectors of contamination -- Mind and methods for mushroom culture -- Culturing mushroom mycelium on agar media -- The stock culture library: a genetic bank of mushroom strains -- Evaluating a mushroom strain -- Generating grain spawn -- Creating sawdust spawn -- Growing mushrooms on enriched sawdust -- Cultivating gourmet mushrooms on agricultural waste products -- Cropping containers -- Casing: a topsoil promoting mushroom formation -- Growth parameters for gourmet and medicinal mushroom species -- Maximizing the substrate's potential through species sequencing -- Harvesting, storing, and packaging mushrooms for market -- Mushroom recipes: enjoying the fruits of your labors -- Cultivation problems and their solutions: a troubleshooting guide -- Appendices. After years of living in awe of the mysterious fungi known as mushrooms-chefs, health enthusiasts, and home cooks alike can't get enough of these rich, delicate morsels. With updated production techniques for home and commercial cultivation, detailed growth parameters for 31 mushroom species, a trouble-shooting guide, and handy gardening tips, this revised and updated handbook will make your mycological landscapes the envy of the neighborhood. From the Trade Paperback edition

After years of living in awe of the mysterious fungi known as mushrooms-chefs, health enthusiasts, and home cooks alike can't get enough of these rich, delicate morsels. With updated production techniques for home and commercial cultivation, detailed growth parameters for 31 mushroom species, a trouble-shooting guide, and handy gardening tips, this revised and updated handbook will make your mycological landscapes the envy of the neighborhood.

The most comprehensive manual of mushroom cultivation ever - filled with readable, useful information about every known mushroom species that people esteem for food and for medicine