If you have never thought that in addition to cutting salads, strawberries, cherry tomatoes and perhaps some other vegetables at home you could also grow fresh mushrooms, it is perhaps because you had never discovered the many ideas for do-it-yourself cultivation born, it is just the case to say it ... like mushrooms!
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If you have never thought that over to the cutting salads, strawberries, i Cherry tomatoes and maybe some other vegetables in the house you could also grow fresh mushrooms, perhaps because you never discovered the many ideas for DIY cultivation born, it is appropriate to say ... like mushrooms!
il Kit di “Back To The Roots” per far grow wonderful fresh mushrooms in your home as in a forest is the first cute idea in terms of home-made mushrooms!
They are very comfortable and really easy to use, in fact it is enough to wet them twice a day and expose them to the sun to have your fantastic ones in a few days (about ten) Pleurotus o Shiitake fresh and this can be repeated several times!
But perhaps the cutest thing of all is being able to tell the story of the creators of this "kit".
In fact, everything stems from the idea of the two recent Berkeley graduates Nikhil Arora and Alex Velez.
"It all started with a 'chance fact', an idea thrown there by our financial ethics professor in February 2009, in the last semester of our senior year at UC Berkeley major business - namely that mushrooms could be grown in coffee grounds. "
That seed of idea was growing independently in both Arora's and Velez's brains who, at the time, didn't even know about each other but ".... We knew that if we were able to transform waste into something of value, the whole it would have had a huge impact, ”says Arora.
In fact, after joining forces, the two boys experienced theuse of coffee grounds as a substrate for the growth of different species of fungi in search of the most suitable and thanks to the advice of the famous mycologist Paul Stamets and "field tests" made by submitting their products to the chefs of one of the most prestigious restaurants on the West Coast, they decided to start their business. Here you can hear them tell their story:
This system is perfect for those who have little space and perhaps little time, or are simply a beginner.
Fungopia
Another idea can give you the girls of "Fungutopia“, Directly from Berlin from the DMY design festival in the space of MakerLab some girls have created “Fungutopia” a project of “design of a social and ecological utopia based on urban mushroom cultivation” a little installation, a little workshop, a little prototype and a little community-project.
“Fungutopia is nothing more than an installation that shows the various possibilities that mushrooms have to help make the world a better place: in fact, mushrooms are open-source medicines, food, fertilizers and recover the soil. They can be grown simply, even indoors and are perfect for urban cultivation ... "
Fungutopia is a project by Laura Popplow in collaboration with Tine Tillmann and Kyra Porada. grow.fungutopia.org is the web community's creative lab that brings together the people they care about mushroom-urban culture and who want to share their experiences! Here we can read an interview with Laura Popplow!
Another example from which to start growing your mushrooms is to start thinking that the mushroom needs a substrate on which to grow, be it sawdust, corn, wood or simply paper like the hygienic one!
In fact, if you are like me, that is, you want to have the "thrill" of experimentation "why else what's the taste !?" and you want to do everything yourself and starting from the basics you could start right from toilet paper!
Grow mushrooms from toilet paper
Yes, you understood correctly because there are those who have experimented, also obtaining excellent results, the cultivation of Oyster starting with a roll of toilet paper… which, let's not forget, is nothing but cellulose!
The concept is very easy: mushrooms, in order to grow, generally need a substrate, light and suitable humidity and to create it we use an ad hoc environment in which to make them grow that can be represented by one small plastic or plexiglass box, but also a old aquarium or even a transparent box for clothes and of:
A tee pee kit purchasable online here
-a box to contain the roll
-a plate
-a spray bottle
- a roll of unbleached, non-drawn and unscented toilet paper
-a penatola
- kitchen tongs
What you will need to do:
boil some water in the pot, remove the roll holder cardboard from the paper roll and immerse the roll in the water removed from the heat then remove it and put it to drain and cool very gently so as not to break it.
When it is warm, put it in the plastic bag contained in the kit and put the grains containing the spores in the center of the roll then close the bag with the special rubber bands and place the bag on the plate finally put everything in the plastic box and place it in the dark. The environment will be dark and humid and within 3 weeks you will see the growth of the mycelium.
At this point you will have to ask it for 48 hours in the coldor (to accelerate its development) and then after the time in the fridge remove the bag by placing the roll at room temperature, opening the bag, and placing it in a lighted and ventilated environment, remembering to always keep the roll well moistened with the spray bottle full of water.
So after about 7-10 days your mushrooms will be ready and once harvested (by hand and without knives) just close the bag, wait for the mycelium to reappear and start again with the operation.
The preparatory cycle may seem very long but once you understand the mechanism and start cultivation you will find yourself fascinated by its cultivation so simple and fruitful!
Seeing is believing!
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