An overview of the whole gourmet mushroom growing process: the different starting points, how each stage leads to the next, and which guide to read…

A simple overnight project that reveals a mushroom’s spore colour and gill pattern, with tips for clean, sharp prints from gourmet species like oyster and…

How to make agar plates, inoculate them from spores, liquid culture or tissue, and use transfers to isolate clean, vigorous gourmet mushroom cultures.

Copy the genetics of a great oyster, shiitake or lion’s mane mushroom by growing a piece of its tissue on agar. A step-by-step guide with…

A beginner’s guide to inoculating sterilised grain with gourmet mushroom liquid culture, from setting up a clean workspace to spotting contamination.

Rinse, soak, simmer, dry and sterilise: how to prepare grain jars and bags that gourmet mushroom mycelium will colonise quickly and cleanly.

Straw is the cheapest, easiest substrate for oyster mushrooms. Here are three ways to pasteurise it at home, plus how to spawn and pack your…

Three fruiting chamber set-ups for home growers, from a simple humidity tent to a shelving-unit martha, plus how to balance humidity, fresh air and light.

Grow your own lion’s mane from a ready-to-fruit block or your own spawn: the conditions it likes, how to fruit it, and when to harvest.

How to tell healthy mycelium from the common moulds and bacteria that ruin home grows, what causes each one, and what to do when you…