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Growing Morel Mushrooms: Multiple Techniques ShareThisFacebookTweetLinkedInPinterestEmail The process of growing morel mushrooms has baffled amateur and professional mycologists for years. Now that we know more about the mysterious morel, growing your own is certainly possible. Reading through the other morel pages on this site before you start will help you better understand their life cycle. Below are a few different ways to grow morels, ranging from easier techniques to more difficult. Click here to share a morel growing story with visitors to this page! The Grow Kit and Spawn Method One of the most popular ways of growing morel mushrooms is with purchased spawn. Mushroom spawn is simply the mycelium, or "vegetative growth" of the mushroom, and the material on which it was grown. This mycelium-infused material is then used to inoculate larger batches of substrate to create a mushroom bed. The easiest way to get spawn is by purchasing a morel mushroom kit, which you can do online. Follow the instructions that come with your kit. Wait:

Potager : quand semer et planter région par région, selon le climat Le climat montagnard concerne les Alpes, le Massif Central et les Pyrénées. Les hivers sont rudes et l'altitude joue directement sur les températures (environ -1°C/100m). Retrouver tous les travaux à effectuer au jardin dans ces régions en : janvier, février, mars, avril, mai, juin, juillet, aout, septembre, octobre, novembre, décembre.

Growing Pearl Oyster Mushrooms in bags Behold, for we have home-grown pearl oyster mushrooms, and you can too. The process of growing them from scratch is not that tricky once you know how, and results in a luscious harvest of fresh oyster mushrooms. First of all, you need good spawn. For this session, our Mushroom Cultivation educator Will Borowski used a block of grain spawn that he’d grown at home, but you can buy a block of spawn if you’re not quite up to speed on that step. Will Borowski empties a bag of grain spawn into a tub of freshly sterilized straw Fully colonized grain spawn on straw, ready to mix Will mixes it all in with freshly washed hands Students start filling the bags Hooray! Finished mushroom bag, languishing amongst other student resources So there you have it. For these bags we used the off-the-shelf bag necks that you can get from mushroom suppliers, but you could cut down plastic bottle necks to do the same job. Bag neck with foam inserted to prevent contamination while the straw gets its oysters on.

Lingzhi mushroom Taxonomy and naming[edit] Names for the lingzhi fungus have a two thousand year history. The Chinese term lingzhi 灵芝 was first recorded in the Eastern Han Dynasty (25–220 CE). Petter Adolf Karsten named the genus Ganoderma in 1881.[2] Botanical names[edit] There are multiple species of Lingzhi, scientifically known to be within the Ganoderma lucidum species complex and mycologists are still researching the differences among species within this complex.[4] Chinese names[edit] In the Chinese language, lingzhi compounds ling 灵 "spirit, spiritual; soul; miraculous; sacred; divine; mysterious; efficacious; effective" (cf. Since both Chinese Ling and Zhi have multiple meanings, Lingzhi has diverse English translations. Japanese names[edit] Japanese language Reishi 霊芝 is a Sino-Japanese loan word from Lingzhi. Reishi synonyms divide between Sino-Japanese borrowings and native Japanese coinages. Korean names[edit] Korean language Yeong Ji or Yung Gee (영지,灵芝) is a word from hanja of lingzhi.

Places Birds Sleep © Alfred Jansen + Martin Langhorst Protecting birds is a worthwhile cause for many reasons, but it doesn't hurt to remember the many ways they benefit humans. Birds keep insect populations under control, spread seeds, pollinate plants and in cities, they even help keep things clean by eating dropped food or picking up pieces of trash to use in their nests. As cities upgrade old buildings, many of the holes, cracks and other nooks and crannies birds have used as shelter are sealed up, which reduces potential nesting spots. Since we're pretty much to blame for destroying their homes, we can help out by putting up bird houses to keep our bug-eating buddies flying around. Here are a bunch from the TreeHugger archive. Birdhouses for Multiple Birds Urban birds need places to nest and thankfully a number of artists have found beautiful and creative ways to address this problem. Andreu Carulla's NeighBirdHood Andreu Carulla's NeighBirds is a clever take on the birdhouse. © Andreu Carulla © Nendo

Growing Shiitake Mushrooms on Sawdust Spawn We’re getting very excited about growing delicious culinary mushrooms at Milkwood. Ever since we ran our first mushroom cultivation course in January, they’re springing up all over the place. One of the easiest and cheapest ways to grow them is on sawdust spawn that you can make yourself… Adam and Will mixing sawdust with straw to make substrate Straw and sawdust all mixed together, now all ready to bag up Students fill the mushroom bags with the substrate mix Bag packing and sealing time… All packaged up and ready to sterilise Easy substrate sterilization technique #1 – 44 gallon drum with boiling water beneath bags – steam technique Easy substrate sterilization technique #2 – the good ol’ pressure cooker (much quicker, good for small batches) Loading up the pressure cooker. One week later… mycelium running… Ta da! The next course we’ll be running on mushroom cultivation is in Sydney in May. Hopefully we can get a Sydney home mushroom growers club started! We run Mushroom Cultivation courses!

Mushroom Garden Patches by Terri Marie Beauséjour Copyright 1999, all rights reserved. Have you ever considered growing mushrooms in your garden? A wide variety of fungi possess qualities of edibility and/or aesthetic beauty appropriate for both the flower and kitchen gardens, or even for general landscaping. They may be grown with no greater effort than that required for plants. In fact, many varieties will thrive nicely with little or no maintenance. Agaricus species (the Portobello, the Prince, the Horse Mushroom, etc.) are adaptable to grassy areas among trees. Edible Tricholomas growing in a Garden in Thailand. Intrigued? You should begin by taking a fresh view of your garden or landscape from a new perspective; analyze its "fungamentals." Note conditions of sun and shade, wind and humidity. Once you have considered the possibilities, you should determine what mushroom varieties are suitable and desirable. Coprinus comatus The delicious Shaggy Mane. Macrolepiota procera and M. rachodes Lepista nuda Sources

Masanobu Fukuoka - Reverdir le desert Masanobu Fukuoka est un autre de ces pionniers de l'agriculture "du long terme" (sustainable) qui se sont rendus à là 2ème conférence internationale de PermaCulture.. Nous nous sommes entretenus avec lui alors qu'il visitait la "Abundant Life Seed Foundation" de Port Townsend à Washington, quelques jours avant qu'il ne présente sa conférence. Il aime dire de lui qu'il n'a aucune connaissance hormis celle contenue dans ses livres, dont La révolution d'un seul brin de paille (Chez Trédaniel - Editions de la Maisnie, 1983) et The Natural Way of Farming, démontrant ainsi qu'il ne manque pas de sagesse.. Sa méthode d'agriculture ne nécessite pas de labour, pas de fertilisants ni de pesticides, pas de désherbage ni d'élagage ainsi que très peu de travail! Il accomplit tout cela (y compris des rendements élevés) grâce à une extrème précaution dans la détermination de la période de semis tout comme dans le choix des combinaisons de plantes (polyculture).

Mushrooms - Fresh & Cultivated Mycology Resources Savoir revivre (Jacques Massacrier) Growing Mushrooms Whilst most of the world’s mushroom supply comes from commercial mushroom farms, growing mushrooms is not as simple as many people believe. In fact, mushroom growing is one of the most technologically advanced and sophisticated agricultural industries in the world. Commercial mushroom production costs are high and require extensive capital investment. Whether you grow on small scale as a hobby; or on a larger scale, modern mushroom production is highly mechanized, requiring detailed knowledge and a high level of management skill and commitment for success. This commitment is required from the start all the way through to cropping and marketing. In South Africa the white button and brown mushrooms are mainly grown, both of these belonging to the genus Agaricus. Less than 5% of the mushroom market is taken up by so called exotic mushrooms, including Pleurotus spp (Oyster mushrooms) and Lentinula spp (Shiitake). The basic process of growing Agaricus Mushrooms is set out below Ingredients 2.

Fatguy's Agar Technique Agar inoculation has been used for cultivation mushrooms as well as bacteria and molds for several years. The key to using an agar solution in cultivating mushrooms is sterility. Keeping the work surface and your hands clean and free of contaminants is the most important thing in using agar. Choosing an agar solution to work with should be pretty easy. Agar production and pouring I use a Malt Extract Agar (MEA) solution that is shipped to me in a powder form. -Mix 50 grams of MEA (7 Tablespoons) for each liter of water. You can use a Mason Jar as a container to mix and autoclave the solution. Here is an important point: Unless you have a container that will hold about 2 liters of solution for each liter that you want to make, I would suggest that you make 1/2 liter batches of the agar solution. When the 45 minutes is up, slowly and carefully lower the heat and the pressure of the pressure canner. Here are a few points regarding the pouring of the plates.. Inoculation Time The spore print: