Do it yourself mushrooms at home and in the garden

Growing poplar mushrooms with Spawn Plugs

Spawn plugs are wooden pegs containing a cultivation of mushroom spawn. To grow the mushrooms, freshly cut logs of healthy poplar wood, willow or other deciduous trees are used. The growing technique is very simple, all you need to do is drill holes in each log and insert the spawn plugs using a ...

RISOTTO WITH KIWI AND MUSHROOMS

Let onion brown in 60 gr. butter. Add the mushrooms you have previously washed and rice. Let it fry lightly and cook, slowly adding some hot broth. Towards the ending of the cooking process add two peeled kiwis and squeeze them with a fork. Stir all of the ingredients carefully. Then stop cooking and add the remaining butter together with some grated parmesan cheese. Garnish with kiwi slices.

Mushroom cultivation some recommendations for Beginners

INTRODUCTION In mushroom cultivation it is important to distinguish two different stages: the preparation of substrates and the actual production of mushrooms. The firms that carry out both these working stages are the so-called “closed loop mushroom farms”; they are normally quite wide and involve dozens, even hundreds of employees. The preparation of the substrate is based on a very sophisticated and expensive system. In order to pay off production costs, such system ...

Giuseppe Lanzi