Organic Mushroom Farming And Mycoremediation
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Tradd Cotter is a microbiologist, professional mycologist, and organic gardener, who has been tissue culturing, collecting native fungi in the Southeast, and cultivating both commercially and experimentally for more than twenty-two years. In 1996 he founded Mushroom Mountain, which he owns and operates with his wife, Olga, to explore applications for mushrooms in various industries and currently maintains over 200 species of fungi for food production, mycoremediation of environmental pollutants, and natural alternatives to chemical pesticides. His primary interest is in low-tech and no-tech cultivation strategies so that anyone can grow mushrooms on just about anything, anywhere in the world. Mushroom Mountain is currently expanding to 42,000 square feet of laboratory and research space near Greenville, South Carolina, to accommodate commercial production, as well as mycoremediation projects. Tradd, Olga, and their daughter, Heidi, live in Liberty, South Carolina.
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Although Tradd Cotter's Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation deserves a full lunchtime series...I already wrote one after listening to his inspiring lectures.So, instead, I'll simply tell you that this beautifully illustratedbook is a must-read for anyone interested in homestead-scale mushroomproduction. You'll learn more in-depth information about many of thehome-propagation techniques I've posted about previously, will beinspired to try out mycoremediationin your chicken coop, and much more. Then dive deeper into topics likeproducing a slurry of morel spores and associated microbes to grow thiselusive species at home, or experiment with propagating shiitakeswithout a lab by stacking thinly sliced logs separated by pieces of dampcardboard.I really can't do Tradd'sbook justice in a single post, so I'm merely going to sum up someinformation on which mushroom species are best to grow in specific ways.Tradd has a great section at the end of the book givingspecies-by-species cultivation techniques for twenty-four types ofmushrooms, and he also breaks the species down into difficultycategories. Based on that data, raw beginners who want to fruit theirmushrooms outdoors should consider black poplar mushrooms, wood ears,reishi, brick tops, oysters and elm oysters, shiitakes, stropharia, andturkey tails.The book also clued me in to why my raftsdidn't do as well as I thought they would --- only reishi, nameko,black poplar, brick top, and maitake are recommended for this type ofcultivation. Stumps,similarly, are best for maitake, chicken of the woods, reishi, enoki,oysters, and beefsteaks, with the tradeoff being that stumps take longerto start to fruit than logs do, but that they then tend give you manymore years of harvests before petering out. Finally, if you want to grow mushrooms on cardboard, oysters, blewits, and stropharia are a good choice (at least during the vegetative stage).Although I have atendency to focus on the easiest types of mushroom growing (namelyoysters and shiitakes seasonally fruiting on logs), Mark likes the ideaof faster production using sawdust, wood chips, coffee grounds and othersubstances in containers. And Tradd succeeded in knocking out one of myroadblocks to Mark's proposal, namely the constant use of throwawayplastic bags. Instead, the mushroom guru recommends putting your growingsubstrate in PVC pipes, nursery pots, or five-gallon buckets, all ofwhich can be modified with holes and sanitized in a 10% bleach-watersolution to allow reuse. Using these methods, you can see mushrooms assoon as three weeks after inoculation when growing oysters on coffeegrounds --- too bad we don't drink that beverage or have a coffee shopnearby!In the end, Tradd's book is just as inspiring as his lectures were, butthe contents are much more meaty. I read the book slowly over the courseof a couple of months and recommend you do the same to enjoy the fulleffect. Other mushroom books --- notably those by Paul Stamets --- will be a good supplement for the mushroom enthusiast, but Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediationhas now risen to the top of my list of recommended mushroom books forthe homestead fungiphile. This book will be staying on my shelf foryears to come and I expect it will inspire many mushroom experiments.Stay tuned for details as we try to propagate shiitakes using the logmethod and perhaps grow some oyster mushrooms on old jeans.
Read Or Download Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation: Simple to Advanced and Experimental Techniques for Indoor and Outdoor Cultivation By Tradd Cotter Full Pages.Get Free Here => =1603584552What would it take to grow mushrooms in space How can mushroom cultivation help us manage, or at least make use of, invasive species such as kudzu and water hyacinth and thereby reduce dependence on herbicides Is it possible to develop a low-cost and easy-to-implement mushroom-growing kit that would provide high-quality edible protein and bioremediation in the wake of a natural disaster How can we advance our understanding of morel cultivation so that growers stand a better chance of success For more than twenty years, mycology expert Tradd Cotter has been pondering these questions and conducting trials in search of the answers. In Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation, Cotter not only offers readers an in-depth exploration of best organic mushroom cultivation practices; he shares the results of his groundbreaking research and offers myriad ways to apply your cultivation skills and further incorporate mushrooms into your life--whether your goal is to help your community
In Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation, Tradd Cotter offers readers an in-depth exploration of best organic mushroom cultivation practices, for both indoor and outdoor growing of a wide variety of species. He also shares insight into his groundbreaking research on challenges such as cultivating morels, \"training\" mycelium to respond to specific contaminants, and perpetuating spawn on cardboard without the use of electricity. Geared towards readers who want to grow mushrooms without the use of pestisides, Cotter takes \"organic\" one step further by introducing an entirely new way of thingking--one that looks at the potential to grow mushrooms on just about anything, just about anywhere, by anyone. 59ce067264
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