How to Cultivate Edible Mushrooms for Free, Part 2
Technique 1: Producing spawn from spores
The biology is a bit complicated, and I won't go into it here, but
spores can be used to start new mushroom colonies a bit like seeds are
used to start new veggie gardens. The trick is to get the spores
to grow, and Paul Stamets suggests two
options.....
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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