Publisher's Synopsis
There are so many different ways to grow mushrooms it's almost but not quite unbelievable, so do yourself a favor and please don't for an instant think that this is the only way, or necessarily the best way, to go about the process. Mushrooms are an incredibly adaptable and resilient bunch that can perform well under a comparatively wide range of growing conditions that would be completely inappropriate for other varieties of edible and medicinal mushrooms.Straw is a cheap and widely available material (especially if you live out or near the country) that is excellent for growing mushrooms. There are many, many success stories out there to authenticate this claim. Straw can be heat treated (pasteurized) or fermented, left to drain and cool, then mixed with oyster mushroom spawn and stuffed into perforated plastic bags or plastic bins, buckets or trays with holes drilled into the sides.If you can think of it, chances are someone has tried to grow mushrooms in/out of it. Explore your options using the materials that you have on hand. You probably have something lying around that would be at least decent at the task of housing and fruiting oyster mushrooms.
