Project Mushroom
A modern guide to growing, creating and experimenting with mushrooms
Lorraine Caley, Jodie Bryan
- 192 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Project Mushroom
A modern guide to growing, creating and experimenting with mushrooms
Lorraine Caley, Jodie Bryan
About This Book
Project Mushroom is the practical and beautiful guide to growing, displaying, cooking and identifying edible mushrooms. Mushrooms are good for us and for the environment: they are a sustainable, easy-to-grow food source and full of nutritional goodness. But they can also be attractive and useful additions to our homes and gardens – whether displayed in ceramic vases, on macrame or even used to make ink, paper or seed pots. In this book, mushroom experts Lorraine and Jodie Caley (aka the Caley Brothers) provide more than 30 projects so you can grow mushrooms at home.
- An extensive introduction de-mystifies mushrooms, explainstheir benefits (for our health and the environment) and gives you a mushroom-growing starter kit
- Provides simple, easy-to-followtechniques for growing all types of mushroom
- Discover striking ways to display and use mushrooms in the home: make sustainable hanging decorations or display in a ceramic vase
- Learn how to garden withmushrooms: make a mushroom bed or display varieties in seasonal containers
- Experiment with easy recipes for adding mushrooms to your store cupboard, including a Vitamin D boost, mushroom tincture and dried mushroom powder
This guide takes out the technical jargon, provides fascinating inspiration and answers all your burning questions. With so many ideas to explore, itdemonstratesthat mushroom growing doesn't have to be scary.Created in collaboration with the world-renowned Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and with an extensive introduction and a directory of mushrooms, this book is a must-have for any modern mushroom lover.