Growing Your Own Mushrooms is it Safe?

Growing mushrooms has become popular again, mainly because of health benefits or the profitability of selling mushrooms labeled organic or home grown. I use them a lot for cooking but have always been nervous about finding or growing my own, so I started a little research to find some resources on growing my own mushrooms safely. I have created several posts to talk about growing mushrooms.





+A mushroom, or toadstool, is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source.

Like with all information on the internet it's best to check your source. Sometimes a site can have really good information mixed with not so good.

I have listed some sources below to help with your own research. In college my professor always forbade us to use Wikipedia, but I choose to list and use it because there was really good information there that could be verified.




Resource List

➱ How to purchase mushroom growing kits and books about mushrooms 
➱ Food safety and outbreaks reported to CDC
➱ How to grow mushrooms book plus bonus
➱ Resource guides for wild mushroom collector's and foragers


Help in Identification
             ⟱

➲ https://mushroomobserver.org/--The purpose of this site is to record observations about mushrooms, help people identify mushrooms they aren’t familiar with, and expand the community around the scientific exploration of mushrooms (mycology).