Mushroom Cultivation Links
Home Cultivation Supplies: kits, spawn, books etc.
- Fungi Perfecti
Paul Stamets, leader in the home cultivation field — supplies, books, kits, everything a mushroom cultivator needs.
- Field and Forest Products
Home cultivation supplies, kits, spawn, books. Located in Peshtigo, Wisconsin
- Mushroom Mountain
Bulk spawn, plug spawn, extracts, kits, mycogardening supplies, workshops.
“Mushroom Mountain was designed as an interactive farm, teaching the benefits of using fungi and how to protect our environment with mushrooms? We specialize in lectures, field trips, and cultivation workshops”
- Mushroompeople
Online catalog of mushroom spawn, books, and mushroom-growing supplies. Located on "The Farm," a surviving commune from the 60’s.
- Mushroom Harvest
Cultivation supplies, spawn, liquid cultures, medicinal mushroom extracts and powder. Located in Athens, OH
- FungusAmongus.com
Grow at home kits, dried mushrooms for sale
- Mushroom Adventures
Grow at home kits and supplies. Button and Portobello kits available.
- Fun Guy Farm
Fun Guy Farm, near Toronto, Canada, supplies mushroom spawn, kits, books, and medicinal fungi.
- Kalyx.com
Cultivation supplies, growing techniques
- Unicorn Bags
Autoclavable plastic bags for spawn. Supplies.
- Spore Trading Post
Cultivation Supplies, magic mushroom emphasis
- Mycosource.com
Fun Guy Farm. Kits, spawn, log inoculation video
- The Mushroom Patch
The Mushroom Patch. Kits, spawn, spore syringes, spores, books, supplies.
- Gourmet Mushrooms and Mushroom Products
Organic edible, gourmet mushroom growing kits for home and garden; Morel, Shiitake, Oyster; dried and fresh mushrooms, infused olive oils, truffle oils, mushroom sauces; books, arts and crafts.
- Everything Mushroom
Books, ready to grow mushroom kits, dried wild gourmet mushrooms, outdoor garden patches, mushroom logs, mushroom cultures and spawn, gifts, art
- Mycopath
Mushroom cultivation supplies. Liquid culture syringes available.
- Organja
Mushroom kits, supplies, spores into substrate
- Bioculture
British—Cultures, supplies, cultivation info.
- Lost Creek Shiitake Mushroom Farm
Since 1992 sending mushroom log kits to shiitake lovers and gardeners. Shiitake log kits.
- MycoSupply
Extensive inventory of quality, professional level cultivation supplies: pressure cookers, lab equipment and supplies, glove boxes, transportable grow room, and much more.
- Wylie Mycologicals
Wylie Mycologicals is a specialty mushroom facility which includes a mycological laboratory, spawn rooms and growing chambers. Ontario, Toronto.
Commercial Mushroom Cultivation Sites
- Phillip's Farms
A major commercial supplier of specialty mushrooms. Pennsylvania.
- Monterey Mushrooms, Inc
A major commercial supplier of specialty mushrooms. California
- American Mushroom Institute
National voluntary trade association representing the growers, processors, and marketers of cultivated mushrooms in the United States and industry suppliers worldwide.
- MushroomCompany.com
Publishes the Mushroom Growers Newsletter.
- International Society for Mushroom Science
ISMS seeks to further the cultivation of edible (including medicinal) macrofungi. It is non-political and non-profit making. The objectives of ISMS are the dissemination of information on new developments and the science of mushrooms and to stimulate exchange of new ideas between growers and scientists around the world.”
- Canadian Mushroom Growers Association
A voluntary, non-profit organization whose members are dedicated to the production and marketing of fresh mushrooms in Canada.
- Mycelia
Mycelia Mushroom Spawn Laboratory. Cultivation supplies, Spawn. Purveyors of Shiitake Beer. Belgium
- Forest Mushrooms
Forest Mushrooms, St. Joseph, MN. Commercial supplier. Wild mushroom broker.
- Modern Mushroom Farms
Suppliers of "whites" (Agaricus bisporus) in every shape and form (Pennsylvania).
- MycoLogical Natural Products
MycoLogical mushrooms are wildcrafted from the forests of the Pacific Northwest, where they fruit abundantly during the spring and fall. Wildcrafting mushrooms is part of a growing alternative forest products economy in the Northwest that provides jobs and creates economic incentive for forest conservation. MycoLogical is dedicated to preserving forests.
- American Mushroom Hunter
Wild mushroom seller
Universitiy Sites
Mycological Society Sites
Manuals and Articles on Mushroom Cultivation
- ATTRA Mushroom Cultivation and Marketing An excellent manual on growing and marketing mushrooms. Very thorough. Highly recommended. The manual is available as a downloadable pdf file.
- "Introduction to Shiitake: The "Forest" Mushroom. Kentucky Shiitake Production Workbook." (pdf). Hill, Deborah B. Univ. of Kentucky Extension. Excellent Article on growing shiitake on logs and marketing.
- Training Manual on Mushroom Cultivation Technology A 65-page manual from The United Nations Asian Pacific Centre for Agricultural Engineering. Very thorough; covers all aspects of mushroom cultivation; directions for cultivation of several species of mushroom; extensive references.
- Mushroom Cultivation for People with Disabilities - A Training Manual An entire manual available in html or pdf formats. A project sponsored by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
- Mushrooms, Cultivation, Nutritional Value, Medicinal Effect, and Environmental Impact Philip Miles and Shu-Ting Chang. Much of an entire book (166 pp). from Google Books.
- Six Steps to Mushroom Farming From Penn State. Discussion of button mushroom farming.
- "Shiitake and Oyster Mushrooms." Univ. of Kentucky Extension. (pdf)
- Cultivating mushrooms in natural logs Article from The Mushroom People
- "I Grow Mushrooms" Easy oyster cultivation, Lawrence Weingarten
- Seasonal Chef Riding the mushroom boom. Mushroom kit review.
- Countryside Magazine Article; Joe Krawczyk interview; Shitake log cultivation.
- Oyster Mushrooms Colourful Cousins Article from Wylie Mycologicals on Pluerotus of color
- Pleurotus eryngii and P. nebrodensis: from the wild to commercial production.(specialty mushrooms) from Entrepreneur Magazine. Feb. 2008
- Growing Shiitake Mushrooms in an Agroforestry Practice:
University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry. Excellent booklet on Shiitake log cultivation (pdf)
- Growing Mushrooms with Hydrogen Peroxide Manuals available by R.R. Wayne, Ph.D., "The Peroxide Man"
A method for Growing Mushrooms with Hydrogen Peroxide, is described in a manual by R.R. Wayne. Answers to frequently asked questions, ordering information for literature and mushroom growing kits, and some ideas for science fair projects on mushrooms are provided.
Other Mushroom Links