Project Mushroom: A Modern Guide to Growing Fungi

Project Mushroom is a book that teaches readers how to identify, grow, display, and cook edible mushrooms. It includes over 30 projects to grow mushrooms at home, an extensive introduction to mushrooms, and easy-to-follow techniques for growing all types of mushrooms. It also showcases striking ways to display and use mushrooms in the home, such as making sustainable hanging decorations or growing mushrooms in a book. The book is created in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and includes a beautifully illustrated directory to help readers identify mushrooms.

Format: Hardback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 02 May 2024
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC

Project Mushroom is a comprehensive guide that aims to teach readers everything they need to know about identifying, growing, displaying, and cooking edible mushrooms. Mushrooms are not only a sustainable and easy-to-grow food source, but they can also be attractive and useful additions to homes and gardens. In this book, mushroom experts Lorraine and Jodie Caley, known as the Caley Brothers, offer over 30 projects to help readers grow mushrooms at home.

The introduction provides an extensive overview of mushrooms, explaining their benefits for both health and the environment. It also includes a mushroom-growing starter kit that provides simple, easy-to-follow techniques for growing all types of mushrooms. Readers will discover striking ways to display and use mushrooms in their homes, such as making sustainable hanging decorations or growing mushrooms in a book. The guide also teaches readers how to garden with mushrooms, creating a mushroom bed or displaying varieties in seasonal containers. Additionally, readers will experiment with easy recipes for adding mushrooms to their store cupboard, including a Vitamin D boost, mushroom tincture, and dried mushroom powder.

The book is beautifully illustrated with photographs and diagrams to help readers identify different types of mushrooms. It is created in collaboration with the world-renowned Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and includes an extensive introduction and a directory of mushrooms. This book is a must-have for any modern mushroom lover, as it takes out the technical jargon and provides fascinating inspiration and answers to all burning questions. With so many ideas to explore, it celebrates the magic of mushrooms and demonstrates that mushroom growing doesn't have to be scary.

Weight: 720g
Dimension: 178 x 237 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780711289079