Spawn plugs before and after the mushroom mycelium has grown on them. Learn how to make mushroom spawn at home on a mushroom grow log to kick-start your backyard permaculture forest. If you’re ...

Plus, how to care for mushrooms so they can grow and be harvested. Stuart Walmsley/Getty Images If mushrooms are an ingredient you commonly buy at the grocery store, you may want to consider growing ...

What kinds of mushrooms can you grow at home? Erin Hamilton shares how to grow mushrooms indoors or outside in your garden, as well as some of the amazing ways that mushrooms are contributing to a ...

Select a mushroom-growing kit or purchase spores. Kits are ideal for beginners as they contain everything you need, including a substrate (growing medium) inoculated with mushroom spores. Popular ...

Need a winter gardening idea? Utah State University Extension recently published a comprehensive guide to help beginners learn to grow gourmet mushrooms. “A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Mushrooms at ...

If you've ever considered growing mushrooms from home, you likely know how difficult it can be to get started. The fact is, mushrooms require specific conditions to grow, and even the slightest ...

Carrying your brimming plastic laundry basket to the machine, you hear a dreaded crack and feel the weight shift. There goes one of the handles. Its days of toting bundles of clothes may be over, but ...

I've been growing mushrooms on logs outside my house in the Pacific Northwest for a few years now. While tons of people do this successfully, I generally do it poorly, because while mushrooms are ...

Mushrooms are healthy, hearty ingredients that can be used for a variety of dishes, but some varieties can be relatively expensive or hard to find in stores. If you're a mushroom lover, you may wonder ...

When you think of improving the soil, you may imagine planting cover crops or utilizing minimal tillage systems that allow microorganisms to thrive. And while these practices can help make the soil a ...

First, it was cannabis. Now, it's magic mushrooms. Colorado is once again at the forefront of forging a path to the rollout of once-illegal drugs. Magic mushrooms, or shrooms, historically have been ...