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Sustainable Mushroom Cultivation for Environment and Health

Discover the exciting world of mycology and learn how to cultivate various beneficial mushrooms indoors and outdoors. Explore mycoforestry, mycoremediation, and business opportunities in food and medicine production. Unleash the power of fungi for nutrition, medicinal benefits, and environmental restoration.

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Sustainable Mushroom Cultivation for Environment and Health

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  1. Taryn Hubbard Environmental Research Spring 2010 Jason Hamilton

  2. Food and Medicine production • Non-timber forest product • Exciting biological process • Nutrition—Protein, Vitamin B • Medicinal—Benefits to immune system • Business opportunity • Beneficial decomposition • Mycoremediation: “Use of fungi to degrade or remove toxins from the environment.” 1 • Mycoforestry: Restoration, mycorrhizal relationships • Natural composters, pesticides, and fungicides

  3. How does it work? • Location • Outdoors • Indoors • Substrate • Straw, log, sawdust • Spawn • Mushroom starter culture—mycelia & grain/sawdust • Ideal growing conditions • Warm, humid, moderately lit

  4. Oyster • Shiitake • Maitake (Hen of the Woods)‏ • Wine Cap/King Stropharia • Reishi • Portabello, Button, Crimini • Morel • Lion’s Mane • Chicken of the Woods • Turkey Tail • Straw mushroom

  5. Shiitakes: freshly cut logs, 3-8” in diamater • Ideal bark: in between thin & thick, developing ridges • Hardwood—Oak is best! • 70-77˚F, 80-85% Humidity • Natural shade & canopy cover—mix of deciduous & evergreen forest • Clean forest floor, little to no slope

  6. Spring or fall • Will fruit faster if spring • Drilling pattern • Plug or sawdust spawn • Cover with wax • Prevents infiltration • Holds water • Stacking formation: “Crib” • “Forcing” logs • Soak in water to “awaken” mycelia • Different varieties  different time frames • Reishi & Maitake: 2+ years!

  7. Must replicate ideal conditions in an indoor setting • Oysters: • Temperature = 60-70˚F • Humidity • 80% inoculation • 90% spreading • 100% fruiting • Light • Air flow • Species dependent

  8. Sterilize substrate • Boil chopped straw(170º for 1-2 hours)‏ • Carbon to Nitrogen ratio = 20:1 • Layer sterile bag – substrate & spawn • Spawn: Grain or sawdust • Seal bag • 10-20 quarter-sized holes for fruiting • Hang bag to maximize fruiting area

  9. Difficult to replicate an ideal environment • Humidity & air flow • Infestations • Fungus gnats • Green mold • Outdoor insects & animals • King stropharia bed • Time and Size

  10. Benefits • Supply of healthy mushrooms • Safety • Delicious! • Learn to build, create, and manage a space • Business potential • Forest fertility • Growth & Decomposition • Community connections • Teachers, local cultivators

  11. Future Fungi Goals • Mushroom marketing & business • Collaboration with EcoVillage, New Roots Charter School, and other community connections • Spawn production • Fungi in the forest • Fungi in the community garden • Mycoremediation • Mycology course • Wild mushrooms

  12. Thank you! • 1Paul Stamets Mycelium Running • Penn State University Cultivation of Oyster Mushrooms • Mary Ellen Kozak & Joe Krawczyk Growing Shiitake Mushrooms in a Continental Climate

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