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).

Growing Mushrooms

 

Mushroom Mojo offers a full line of mushroom and fungi products to fit your needs. At True Leaf Market, we carry everything from organic growing kits and mushroom mycelium plug spawn to dried mushrooms of every variety. Whether you are looking to get in to growing your own fungi or simply need mushroom products, you have come to the right place for mushrooms for most species of gourmet, edible and medicinal mushrooms. We also offer books and instructions of growing and preparing mushrooms.

TrueLeafMarket.com - Mushroom Kits & Growing Supplies