Anybody Can Grow Mushrooms On Logs: Basic and Advanced Methods ebook

This is a listing for a downloadable ebook in .pdf format, called Anybody Can Grow Mushrooms On Logs: Basic and Advanced Methods. I'm a human and I wrote this book, not some AI ghostwriter. I am here to inspire you and advise you on your path to growing mushrooms on logs! I teach people to grow mushrooms on logs at in-person workshops, and I will show you ho

The listing photos above will show you the Table of Contents and most of the Chapter 1 section titled "What Can You Do With This Guide?" and if you read it you will see that I am very serious about packing this book with everything needed to start farming mushrooms on logs. From 13th century Chinese mushroom cultivation practices to modern day innovations on this ancient craft, this book will explain every step clearly.

The book is divided into two sections: "Natural" methods that anyone can use to start doing the fun stuff right away. Not only learning to inoculate logs using mushroom plugs and growing your own mushrooms, but also making your own mushroom plugs from scratch while working right at your workbench or kitchen table. Making your own grain spawn from liquid culture, and learning to keep a collection of fungi in liquid culture form so you can cultivate the mushrooms you want, when you want. There's even a method for creating fruiting blocks using your grain spawn and the pasteurized sawdust spawn recipe, so you can verify that your cultures are vigorous before applying them to logs for long-term growth.

The "Advanced" methods in the book covers all of the steps that you'd need a still air box or laminar flow hood in order to carry out. For advanced cultivators and those aspire to get there, it will spare no details and clearly advise you along the way. Not just HOW to carry out the steps, but which ones are worth your time as a cultivator and recommended workflows. The handbook will cover transfers of liquid culture to agar, making your own agar plates and a super-easy method for making your own agar supplies as well as recipes. Agar transfers to sterilized grain and sterilized sawdust are covered. The difference between pasteurized sawdust and sterilized sawdust spawn is reviewed. How to take spore prints from your mushrooms - and use those spore prints to start new cultures on charcoal agar that you'll create. Learn the benefits of taking mushroom samples from a mushroom versus spore samples, and the situations when using a spore sample to start cultures might be preferred.

So yes, "Anybody" can grow mushrooms on logs. But also, ANYBODY using my natural methods to grow mushrooms on logs can start learning agroforestry methods with this book and turn their backyard into a food forest. ANYBODY using my advanced methods can turn a single spore print into a million mushrooms. ANYBODY can start as a hobbyist and just keep on going, and then who knows how much you could learn before you're done? It could happen to you - it happened to me, and I wrote you this book.