Growing Mushrooms at Home: The Complete Guide to Knowing, Growing and Loving Fungi - Hardcover

by Elliot Webb (Author)

A comprehensive and beginner-friendly guide to growing mushrooms in the home and garden, from the UK's leading seller of mushroom growing kits.

Mushrooms are easy and fast to grow, highly productive, utilize waste products, have numerous health benefits and take up little space. Plus by growing your own you can have many more varieties than supermarkets can offer.

This book is packed with everything you need to know in an easily digestible format. The book begins with an introduction - what is a mushroom, what is their history, how can they help us - before detailing how to grow them at home, including guides for all varieties and growing methods, plus troubleshooting problems and how to harvest. The book then covers what to do with your harvest - storage, turning them into health supplements, and which variety works best for each use. A final section looks at the future of fungi, and the ground-breaking research into using mushrooms for health, construction, protecting the environment and psychedelics.

Author Biography

Elliot Webb grew up on a farm in South Wales and spent most of his childhood outdoors, exploring the woodland and fields and becoming passionate about foraging and fungi. He earned a BSc in fishery management and aquaculture from Portsmouth University in 2012. From there, he went on to manage one of the most reputable fish farms in Scotland.

Urban Farm-It was born in 2020. Originally intended to be a consultancy business, coronavirus drove a change of strategy to a digital and product-led business. It exploded. By capitalizing on the wave of interest in home grown food, particularly the benefits of mushrooms, they were able to grow rapidly and are now the UK's leading supplier of mushroom growing kits and cultivation materials to both industry and hobbyists.