The further we get into mushroom cultivation, the more I realise just how useful and amazing fungi is. I’ve also found that it’s sometimes a little hard to find info that relates to growing edible mushrooms in Australian conditions. Finding local knowledge is crucial!
Luckily, there’s lots of resources that relate specifically to growing culinary mushrooms in Australia successfully. Which we can share with you, so you can learn too…
Fungi Down Under – the Fungimap Guide to Australian Fungi
Log-Grown Shiitake Mushrooms: An Australian Growers’ Manual – Parsuram Sharma-Luital & Rowan Reid – originally published by the Otway Agroforestry Network
Of course not all the mushroom cultivation info we have needs to be Australia-specific, so we’ve got the rest of the world’s fabulous resources to draw on also – three of our favourites are…
The Mushroom Cultivator – a practical guide to growing mushrooms at home – Paul Stamets
Growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms – Paul Stamets
The Fifth Kingdom – Bryce Kendrick
And of course, like anything, the learning is in the doing. Lately we’ve been plugging fungi into more and more systems at Milkwood Farm, most recently as inoculated soil when planting certain kinds of pine trees…
Or start by reading up on how you can integrate mushrooms into your home environment or garden, and create extra abundance and functional connections in your system. And also better soups, come harvest time…
