Specialty Mushrooms

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  • Value Added Products

    Value Added Products H. Dehydrating Mushrooms Mushrooms that are poor quality, or that a grower is unable to sell, are perfect for any number of value-added products. Mushrooms make an […]

  • Harvest to Market Guide Section 2: Enterprise Planning

    Developing a Viable Specialty Mushroom Enterprise. Project Team Introduction This workbook is meant to serve as a companion to our production manuals: “Best Management Practices for Log-Based Shiitake Cultivation” (2012) […]

  • Community Mushroom Educator Program

    Community Mushroom Educator Network Cultures around the world have long valued mushrooms as a vital source of nutrition and healing for centuries.  Mushrooms are grown and foreages for food, medicine, […]

  • Mycology 101

    Mushroom forming fungi are a subset of the fungal kingdom that include an estimated 1.5 – 5 million species. About 20,000 species of fruiting mushrooms have been identified, of those […]

  • Find People (Email listserv, Consultant Listings)

    Here you can learn more about what we offer, join out grower listserv of over 700 growers, and find a list of active industry consultants to help your grow. What […]

  • Markets, Regulations, and Food Safety

    While many growers focus heavily on the technical aspects of production, it is the post-harvest handling and sales that counts in making for a profitable enterprise  Growers can fetch a […]

  • Indoor Production

    Indoors: Economics of Growing Most specialty mushrooms are best cultivated in controlled environment agriculture (CEA) scenarios. In contrast to CEA systems used for greens and herbs, mushrooms can be produced […]

  • Outdoor Production

    This page offers the basic cultivation techniques and information on the economics of log grown shiitake enterprises. While you might come across one of 10,000 fruiting mushrooms in the Eastern […]

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