Project Mushroom will teach you everything you need to know to identify, grow, display and cook edible mushrooms.
Mushrooms are good for us and for the environment: they are a sustainable, easy-to-grow food source and full of nutritional goodness. But they can also be attractive and useful additions to our homes and gardens – whether displayed in ceramic vases, on macrame or even used to make ink, paper or seed pots. In this book, mushroom experts Lorraine and Jodie Caley (aka the Caley Brothers) provide more than 30 projects so you can grow mushrooms at home.
- An extensive introduction de-mystifies mushrooms, explains their benefits (for our health and the environment) and gives you a mushroom-growing starter kit
- Provides simple, easy-to-follow techniques for growing all types of mushroom
- Discover striking ways to display and use mushrooms in the home: make sustainable hanging decorations or learn how to grow mushrooms in a book
- Learn how to garden with mushrooms: make a mushroom bed or display varieties in seasonal containers
- Experiment with easy recipes for adding mushrooms to your store cupboard, including a Vitamin D boost, mushroom tincture and dried mushroom powder
- Includes a beautifully illustrated directory to help you identify mushrooms
This guide takes out the technical jargon, provides fascinating inspiration and answers all your burning questions. With so many ideas to explore, it celebrates the magic of mushrooms and demonstrates that mushroom growing doesn’t have to be scary.
Created in collaboration with the world-renowned Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and with an extensive introduction and a directory of mushrooms, this book is a must-have for any modern mushroom lover.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Part 1: Introducing Mushrooms
Part 2: Mushroom Projects
Indoor
Caffeine Hit
Make Your Own Spawn
Hanging Mycelium Ornaments
Mushroom Paper
Mushroom Ink
Displaying Mushrooms
Grow a Mushroom Book
Mushroom Macramé
Vase of Mushrooms
Growing on Jeans
Grown Your Own Seed Pots
Spore Prints
Outdoor
Log Project
Straw Bales
‘Gardening’ With Mushrooms
Shed Growing
Greenhouse or Polytunnel Growing
Mushroom Beds
Companion Planting
Crops in Pots
Winter Mushroom Bed
Mushroom Totems
Morel Beds
Mycovermicomposting
Christmas Tree Project
Mushrooms for the Pantry
Mushroom Tincture
Dried Mushrooms
Vitamin D Boost
Mushroom Coffee
Mushroom Infusions
Mushroom Seasoning
Mushroom Powder
Pickled Mushrooms
Part 3: Mushroom Directory
Mushrooms for Growing Indoors
Mushrooms for Growing Outdoors
Wild Growing Mushrooms
Index
Acknowledgements
