Growing Wild Mushrooms

A complete guide to cultivating edible and hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Growing wild mushrroms continues to be the most complete beginner's guide to growing mushrooms in print. Step-by-step instructions, with drawings and photographs, introduce the novice to the full range of growing methods: from sterile culture procedures (the basis of all tissue culture cloning techniques) to indoor bottle gardens to indoor/outdoor compost gardens.

This newly revised edition includes an expanded compost section on producing small quantities of precisely-mixed compost indoors and an updated taxonomy of selected psilocybin-containing mushrooms.