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Cultivation
Mushroom Cultivation Books
Start here if you want to grow mushrooms at home or on a small farm. These mushroom books cover spawn, substrate, and harvest for oyster, button, and shiitake mushrooms.
A full grower's handbook on oyster mushrooms, from spawn and substrate to bag and shelf cultivation, pest control and post-harvest. Written by growers and scientists, with case studies from small farms around the world.
A practical manual for growing oyster, shiitake and wood ear mushrooms with simple equipment. It walks you through spawn production, substrate preparation, harvesting and marketing.
A United Nations training manual on mushroom biology, spawn production and cultivation of shiitake, oyster and other species. It also covers the nutritional and medicinal value of mushrooms and how to run a training workshop.
A 16-lecture course on mushroom growing that covers spawn production and the cultivation of button, oyster, paddy straw and milky mushrooms. It also explains pests, diseases, post-harvest handling and project costs.
A reference guide for commercial mushroom farms that covers composting, pest and disease management, pesticide use and food safety. Useful if you run or plan a full-scale growing operation.
British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture and Lands
A manual for starting a small mushroom business, written by growers and researchers. It explains how to grow oyster mushrooms on coffee grounds and farm waste, and how to turn that into income.
A step-by-step manual for growing oyster, straw and milky mushrooms on rice straw and other farm by-products. Each stage, from pure culture to fruiting bags, comes with photos.
Rizal G. Corales, Julius T. Sajor, Aurora M. Corales
An FAO booklet on mushroom growing as a source of income for small farmers. It reviews the benefits, the essentials of cultivation, and how to process and sell your harvest.
An illustrated guide that shows each step of oyster mushroom production, from preparing the substrate bags to harvest. Short, visual and easy to follow if you are just starting out.
These mushroom books are field guides to help you name what you find in the woods. They show the key features of common species and warn you about poisonous look-alikes.
A pocket guide to the most common edible mushrooms of Missouri and the poisonous ones you could mistake them for. Clear photos and key features help you identify each species safely.
A USDA Forest Service field guide to the mushrooms and other fungi you find in eastern forests. Species are grouped by forest type and by their role in the ecosystem, each with color photos.
Michael E. Ostry, Neil A. Anderson, Joseph G. O’Brien
A field guide to the edible and medicinal mushrooms of the Mekong region. Each species has a photo, a description, its uses, habitat and fruiting season.
Peter E. Mortimer, Jianchu Xu, Samantha C. Karunarathna, Kevin D. Hyde
An FAO overview of wild edible fungi around the world: which species people collect, how they are harvested and traded, and how to manage them. Includes country lists of edible and medicinal species.
Everything known about morels in one report: how to identify the species, where and when they fruit, and how harvesting affects them. A solid reference for foragers and forest managers.
A classic USDA guide to recognizing common edible and poisonous mushrooms. It describes each group with photos and explains the features that separate safe species from dangerous ones.
A 1916 handbook by a leading American mycologist that describes edible and poisonous mushrooms one by one. It also covers how to collect, prepare and cook the safe ones.
What does research say about reishi, lion's mane, and turkey tail? These books and research reviews cover the compounds in edible and medicinal mushrooms and their health effects.
A collection of recent studies on edible mushrooms: their bioactive polysaccharides, vitamin D content, dietary fiber and how to keep them fresh after harvest. Good if you want the current research in one book.
A review of what clinical trials say about medicinal mushrooms such as reishi, shiitake, lion’s mane and turkey tail. It lists the active compounds of each species and the evidence for their health effects.
Giuseppe Venturella, Valeria Ferraro, Fortunato Cirlincione, Maria Letizia Gargano
A review of mushrooms as a source of nutraceuticals. It covers their nutritional value, the compounds behind their health benefits and the size of the global market.
A review of the nutrients and bioactive compounds in edible mushrooms and what they do for your health. It also explains how drying, cooking and other processing methods affect them.
A review of clinical studies on medicinal mushrooms used alongside cancer treatment. It looks at reishi, turkey tail, shiitake and maitake, and what the evidence shows about quality of life and side effects.
Michael Jeitler, Andreas Michalsen, Christian S. Kessler
An open lab manual for a first mycology course. You learn fungal growth, reproduction, identification with morphological and molecular tools, and work with mushrooms as food, all through hands-on experiments.
A classic introduction to the world of fungi by a pioneering mycologist. It explains their structure, how they reproduce and spread, where they live and how people use them.
A university course book that introduces mycology unit by unit. It covers the classification of fungi, their structure, reproduction and their importance to people.
An open university module on microbes and fungi. It introduces the main groups of fungi, how they grow and reproduce, and their role in nature and human life, with learning activities for each unit.
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