How to Grow Mushrooms: A Beginner’s Guide

Published on the DoubleBlind website: https://doubleblindmag.com/mushrooms/how-to-grow-mushrooms/growing-shrooms/

“Growing mushrooms can look incredibly daunting. Anyone who has glanced through books like “The Mushroom Cultivator” by Jeff Chilton and Paul Stamets, or attempted to wade through Stamets’ “Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms” (GGMM), will know what I am talking about: The technical terminology, expensive equipment, building a growing environment…“omg, I just want to grow mushrooms!”

Luckily, to make growing mushrooms easier and more accessible, a variety of Guerrilla techniques exist that allow beginners to quickly start the journey of mushroom cultivation. You could opt for a mushroom grow kit—but growing from scratch can be a lot more rewarding and cost effective so that’s what we’ll cover here. “