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Grain-to-Grain Transfers: This chapter shows you how to turn one jar of rye or other grain spawn into ten more, exponentially expanding your mycelium for mushroom cultivation.  Includes a detailed explanation of sterile procedure, and the appropriate hand positions, clothing, surgical masks, and other items necessary to achieve the highest success rate.

Manure Substrates:A detailed step-by-step procedure for preparing horse manure to grow mushrooms.  Includes an easy to understand method for determining ‘field capacity’ moisture content.  Click on the image to the right for a brief low-resolution preview of this section.

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Agar-Petri Dishes: This chapter takes you through the procedure of mixing up your agar, selecting a suitable container for sterilization and pouring, as well as how to provide a filter in the lid so that the agar doesn't get contaminated before you even get a chance to pour your Petri dishes.  You'll learn more about sterile procedures, working with a laminar flow hood, and correct hand position to use when pouring your plates.  Click the picture to your right to watch a short preview.

Strain Isolation: In this chapter, the fun begins.  You'll learn how to take a mushroom sporeprint, or a few drops from a spore syringe in order to generate many isolated strains, which you will then grow out through the fruiting stage to determine the ones that have the qualities you're seeking.  The best strains will be transferred to master culture slants, as you'll learn to do in the next chapter.  Click the picture to your left for a short low-resolution preview.

Master Culture Slants: This chapter covers preparing, inoculating, and recovering mycelium from master culture slants in test tubes.  This feature is for advanced growers who have isolated or cloned strains that they wish to store long-term under refrigeration. Cold storage allows you to grow mushrooms from your isolated strains, or clones from the wild for many years to come.

Cloning: Follow along as Marc demonstrates how to take mushroom tissue from a fruit body and transfer it to agar in a Petri dish to grow out.  Once isolated from contaminants, this mycelium can then be used to inoculate future projects and/or transferred to master culture slants for long-term storage. Click the picture to your left for a short, low-resolution sample clip.

Sporeprinting and Syringe Making: A short demonstration of the procedure for taking sporeprints, and then using them to make spore syringes for the inoculation of grain spawn or brown rice flour cakes.

Sawdust-Woodchips: Watch as Marc prepares a batch of supplemented hardwood sawdust and woodchips for growing mushrooms.  The addition of wheat bran, gypsum, and Marc's own method of using tyvek sleeves in the filter patch spawn bags to prevent contaminants from entering is shown in detail.

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Using the supplemented sawdust-woodchip formula described in this DVD, I’ve grown Shiitake mushrooms bigger than the large Portabellas you find in grocery stores!  In fact, my Shiitake mushrooms often average well over 100 grams each and are great grilled on the BBQ!  The Shiitake mushroom pictured to your right is the Shiitake 75 strain from Aloha Medicinals.  Aloha Medicinals also has an excellent News & Research page where you can download free PDF files on the latest research into medicinal mushrooms.  Highly recommended.

Use this formula for growing gourmet edible and medicinal mushrooms for your table, or for growing Reishi and other wood conks to make teas for their medicinal properties.  In fact, last year when my wife was diagnosed with a hereditary cancer that had claimed the lives of her mother and two uncles, and which her sister also contracted, she went through the full regimen of chemotherapy and kept 90% of her hair! She even gained weight during chemo, which completely astounded her doctors.  I grew Shiitake and Reishi, and we also picked and cloned a native ‘Reishi’, Ganoderma oregonese from the old-growth forests near our home in Washington State, USA.  She made teas from the various wood conks such as these Reishi, Ganoderma applanatum, and Fomitopsis pinicola, as well as consumed medicinal mushrooms such as Shiitake, Maitake, and Oyster on a daily basis.  All of the people she got to know during her chemo treatments were bald by the third month and had no energy to do anything, but she continued hiking and backpacking with me right through the treatments.  We credit the mushrooms we picked in the wild, as well as the mushrooms we cultivated at home with this modern miracle.  She is now 100% cancer free.

Don’t limit yourselves to making ‘Reishi tea’ because you can also make a broth from most medicinal mushrooms that can then be used as soup stock, or to use as a liquid when making rice and pasta.  This enables you to consume medicinal mushrooms with every meal.

Oyster mushrooms, such as you see growing in the laundry basket to your right, are a powerful antibiotic.  I can put oyster mushroom mycelium on a Petri dish next to bacteria such as E coli, and the oyster mycelium will overwhelm the bacteria, eating it for lunch!  Psilocybe cubensis, which will also happily fruit from a laundry basket of straw, has shown excellent results releiving the pain and suffering from cluster headaches.  I’m convinced that incorporating medicinal mushrooms like these into your daily diet will promote good health and prevent many common illnesses, especially those spread by airborne or surface bacteria.

Our DVD gives full instructions on pasteurizing straw for use in growing mushrooms.  In fact the very laundry basket of oysters pictured to the right was filmed in detail as it was put together using pasteurized straw and several quart jars of organic rye berries, sterilized and inoculated as also shown in the video.

With the DVD, you’ll also learn to clone mushroom tissue, either from your own projects, or from edible, psychoactive, or medicinal mushrooms you pick in the wild.  You’ll learn to transfer the mushroom tissue to a Petri dish of agar, and from those to inoculate master culture slants, so you can save your cultures in perpetuity in the refrigerator for use as needed.

Let's Grow Mushrooms! ISBN 978 1 4243 4358 4 by Marc R Keith  is highly recommended for libraries, schools, and the collection of anyone interested in growing mushrooms.  There is wealth of information here for mycologists of all levels of skill and experience.  Happy growing!

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