Growing Edible Mushrooms

I thought growing Oyster and Shiitake mushrooms in our Hawaiian rainforest location would be a natural, and that it would extend our food-growing capabilities, make us more self sufficient in our off-grid home, and provide delicious meals. This book gives specific temperature requirements for different mushrooms and has a lot to say about pasteurization and cleanliness in general. But the bottom line is that you need absolutely sterile spaces for growing, perfect temperatures, and can't even breath on the mushrooms without ruining everything. My experiments were a total bust. But if you can guarantee the right conditions, this book could be a help. Lynne Farr, author of  Off The Grid: What's Cookin'?

Good information on growing your own mushrooms is difficult to find. This book does a nice job covering the basics of the subject. HOWEVER, it does NOT tell you how to go through the process of working with liquid cultures, nor does it deal effectively with substrate materials (some shrooms like wood, others manure, other some combo). It's a decent book for orientation but for how to work the trenches you will get more info using Google or another search engine.

Not all that informative

"Too little information" in this book. This is informative if you really don't plan on cultivating your own mushrooms, but are interested in a broad sense. If you actually want detailed information then look elsewhere.

a little thin, expected a little more, but didn't research it much as it was quite inexpensive, so will resort to more detailed books

Don't waste your time or money. I didn't expect much and was still disappointed. Very disappointed. Thin booklet, but not enough information to justify killing trees or burning petro to recycle. Some specific problems include very general information with practically nothing specific about cultivating different varieties. A list describing a few varieties with approximate growing temperature range was the one exception, even that was inadequate because there was only one generic entry for all species of Oyster mushrooms so only one temp was given. Much space in the list was devoted to nutritional analysis of the variety, useless because I did not buy this to find out how much eating various kinds of mushroom will contribute to my carb intake. The few pages devoted to cultivation described creating compost well, that was about the only useful info in the whole book, and I'd already found lots of other equally good sources online for free. Nothing about growing on sawdust, log cultivation, etc.Consider, it has taken me longer to write this review than it took to read every page of the booklet, and I'm egotiscal enough to believe this review contains more useful information too.PS - I tried to give zero stars but Amazon doesn't allow that.

wonderful

doesnt really explain much but it quick and easy to get you started, with what you need to start learning

this was obviously written by someone who isn't living in the UK. there are a few clues esp with the suggestion of building a bamboo hut!!!!it has no pictures at all and looks like something someone has published themselves so is sort of like a manuscript ie i wans't expecting this really.however it does i think have the info you need to grow mushrooms and is straightforward to follow . so id recommend it. its also cheap !

Excellent