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Give you taste buds a kick with some kombucha! Brewing kombucha at home is easy and fun. Grab one of our brew kits, follow the brew guide below, and check out our recipes to add some flavor to your very own brew. GATHER INGREDIENTS • SCOBY & starter liquid • Tea kettle or pot • […]
Oyster, Shiitake, Reishi, Lion’s Mane… Oh my! We sell a variety pre-inoculated substrate bags that make growing mushrooms at home easy and fun. Checkout our complete line of mushroom grow kits and follow the directions below to get them going. PREPARE 1. Remove contents from box. Each kit contains a sterilized and pre-inoculated substrate bag […]
Wine Caps are a delicious mushrooms that can be grown seasonally outdoors. They are best started in the spring for an autumn harvest, but can be inoculated anytime of the year with proper watering and care. A late start on inoculation may mean it will be the following fall before they fruit. If you continue […]
Keeping The Fruits of Your Labor So, you have managed to grow, buy or forage more awesome edible mushrooms than you can eat. Well done! Instead of letting them rot in the drawer of your fridge, or giving them away to friends too lazy to get their own, I would suggest preserving them in any […]
Cooking With Mushrooms I’ve met many people in my travels who absolutely abhor eating mushrooms of any kind, and one can certainly understand their aversion since, for many people, their experience is limited to slimy undercooked sliced button mushrooms on an otherwise perfectly fine pizza or grilled but undercooked and slimy portobellos. Indeed, these two […]
Archaeological evidence indicates that Shiitake has been under cultivation for at least a thousand years, the first written account being recorded in 1209 CE from southern Japan. The mushroom plays an integral role in the food culture of East Asia and is produced in enormous quantities there. It is becoming more popular in the US, […]
Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) The first time one comes upon Chicken of the Woods in the wild, it can seem almost too good to be true. The bold saffron and sulphur yellow mushrooms can entirely envelope a stump or log, growing in masses of succulent, plush shelves. Specimens have been found weighing up […]
Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) Reishi is unique among the species we offer here in that it is technically not edible. It is not toxic, however, it is tough, woody and extraordinarily bitter. Despite this, it has been highly esteemed for its purported health benefits for the better part of 2000 years in China, where it is […]
Lion’s Mane (Hericium erinaceus) This species is a favorite of ours here at Everything Mushrooms. It has just about everything one could ask for in a gourmet mushroom: it is visually striking, delicious, healthy, is easy to grow on a variety of substrates, and is very fast to produce! A winner! In the wild this […]