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Button mushrooms (agaricus campestrius) are one of the easiest to home grow mushrooms and probably the most common home grown mushroom.

To grow from spores is very complex, and contamination of the Petri dish is almost guaranteed if you dont have a sterile lab to start the spores in.

A better way is to mix a couple of Table spoons of Hydrogen Peroxide with a gallon of water. Put on a mask (cheap paper mask will do) to prevent the spread of contaminants from your breath. In a large pot mix equal portions of dry straw and either cow or horse manure. Horse manure is best. Cover with a couple of table spoons of Hydrogen Peroxide and water and Bring to a boil. Boil the mixture for 30 minutes. Drain the water and use your hands to squeeze the water out of the material. This is your growing medium.

Next, use clean HP / water solution to sterilize the inside of a gallon zip lock bag, a Zacto Knife, and wash a FRESH, fully grown button mushroom with the HP solution. Then using clean hands washed with the HP solution, slice off a very then layer of the top membrane directly over where the mushroom stemm jions the cap. Next cut a piece out of the center of the mushroom directly over the cap. And place the piece you cut from the mushroom into the sterile zip lock bag, add the sterile growing medium and seal the bag.

Date the bag and the name of the mushroom on the bag. Set it on the shelf in a dark closet where temperature will remain at 65 degrees until the bag is completely full of a white spongy looking mass. This will take from 30 to 90 days. The white fibourous material is the actual mushroom plant that grows under ground. This is called your innoculant because you will use it to innoculate your growing bed.

When your innoculant is ready, Make more sterile growing medium and place in trays. I like to use plastic dish pans. You want about 8 inches deep of growing medium. Open you innoculant and mix pieces of innoculant into your growing medium. Keep the medium in a cool humid place at about 65 degrees and occassionally sprinkle with water to keep the medium damp. In 30 days you should get your first mushrooms. They start slow at first and then many come up at once, then they slow down again. With hold water until the growing medium starts to dry, then soak and drain. In about thirty days you will get the second “flush”, it won’t be as many mushrooms as the first flush. You can keep repeating the procedure until the amount of mushrooms you get no longer make it worth the effort. At that time dump the medium in the garden, it is excellent compost by then.

Pick your best mushroom for use in the next batch. And repeat the procedure. I like to keep 4 trays going so I have mushrooms on hand continously. The four trays supply all my brothers and sisters and my family.

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A bit of Googling using the phrase “growing maitake mushrooms” (when searching for a phrase using a search engine, put quotation marks around it, so the search engine will treat it AS a phrase, and not just a random collection of words), i found this:

Overview

Hen of the Woods mushroom is the nickname for the maitake mushroom. Maitake mushrooms have been used medicinally in Japan and have gained attention in the last 20 years in the United States. At home, logs can be inoculated with the spawn to produce mushrooms. It can take a year or more to see results from growing maitake mushrooms, but then they can continue to produce for up to four years.

Step 1

Obtain your log from a local farmer or business that provides firewood, or cut a log from a tree on property that you own or with the owner’s permission. Choose a log from a hardwood tree such as maple, oak or aspen for the best results. Make sure your log measures 3 to 4 feet in length and 3 to 6 inches in diameter. Also, make sure the log wasn’t cut more than two months ago; otherwise, there is a chance the log is contaminated with wild mushroom spawn or mold. Obtain a log that has been cut in either late winter or early spring so that the sugar content in the wood is high.
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Step 2

Set aside your log for 1 month to allow chemicals in the wood that can kill fungi to dissipate. Soak the log in water overnight the day before beginning inoculation.
Step 3

Use a drill with a 5/16 inch drill bit to drill a 1 ¼-inch deep hole. Make a row of holes along the length of the top part of your log so that each hole is spaced 6 inches from the next, and each row is offset 2 inches apart. Add holes to the ends of the log as well.
Step 4

Hammer one spawn plug into each hole you made on the log until the plug is completely inside.
Step 5

Melt cheese wax in a double boiler. Use a cooking thermometer to make sure the temperature doesn’t get above 300 F degrees. Dip the paintbrush into the melted wax. Paint the wax over each hole to seal in the spawn plugs.
Step 6

Keep the log moist with water. Put it in a location indoors or outdoors where the temperature will remain between 55 to 70 F degrees. Maitake mushrooms typically take about 1 year to develop, and sometimes can take as long as 3 years. Harvest sections of maitake once their edges darken by cutting them just above where the base of the mushrooms meet the log.

Read more: How to Grow Hen of the Woods Mushrooms | Garden Guides http://www.gardenguides.com/105009-grow-hen-woods-mushrooms.html#ixzz15xeSJe1E

GardenersCardiff answers:

I am former chef and have bought from private vendors, things like asparagas, fiddleheads, salmon and other fruit and veg.

The only thing you may find with mushrooms of any kind is the suspect issues, being are they safe, most places might be reluctant to buy them unless you have a certication as a qualified mushroom hunter.

When I worked in B.C, Canada we had a vendor bring morels, chanterelles, lobster, shiitake, shimiji and enoki mushrooms grown then organically in the woods north of Vancouver, he was well known to the restaurants and hotels in the city so he had not problem, I would look to what the one person said, find a market base for them, and as most mushroom hunters have there own private spot, like truffle hunters in Italy and France, make sure you can sell them, otherwise you can dry them and sell them that way, we bought from a commercial company in the winter, dried morels/chanterelles and porchinis, plus they ground the odd ones for seasoning or to add to sauces or pasta mixes.