, medicinally important, sustainable, and deeply delicious mushrooms right at your own home, just as people throughout the world have been doing for centuries.

Grown Your Own Mushrooms--adapted from Mushroom Cultivation--offers photo-illustrated instruction both on how mushrooms grow and how you can cultivate them yourself, with a focus on six types of mushroom: shiitake, oyster, wine cap, hericium, blewit, and agaricus. You'll learn how to:

• Grow mushrooms, step by step, in a variety of different mediums: logs, straw, wood chips and sawdust, and compost
• Troubleshoot problems, including identification, underwatering, overwatering, and insects
• Store, dry, and freeze your mushroom harvest
• Cook with mushrooms, including variety-specific cooking tips and 8 tasty recipes
• Find supplies and more information with the resources listed at the back of the book

After reading Grow Your Own Mushrooms, you'll discover that growing a mushroom is really no more difficult than growing a tomato. You just need a slightly different set of skills.

Get started growing your own marvelous mushrooms with this easy-to-follow beginner's guide.