[Kyle Gabriel] knows mushrooms, and his years of experience really shine through in his thorough documentation of an automated mushroom cultivation environment, created with off-the-shelf sensors and ...

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Lots of people have developed their own systems for automating the growth of plants. Keeping the environment under tight control leads to better yield, and computers are better than humans at ...

Oyster mushroom cultivation can be quite rewarding. Here, you will learn everything you need to know to grow oyster mushrooms, from starting your own grain spawn and setting up your mushroom growing ...

Science teacher Michael Green wasn’t sure how his students would feel about the new assignment. Growing mushrooms for South Jersey restaurants had, after all, never been in his curriculum before. They ...

J.T. Gelineau, Mushrooms Naturally founder and chef, holds a bag of mushroom growing material at his mushroom farm in O’Fallon, Mo. Unlike other specialty mushrooms, morels aren't typically farmed at ...

Tourists visiting Kew Gardens in southwest London have shown interest in learning more about mushroom cultivation in the kitchen garden to increase crop yield per square foot and enhance soil ...

As an avid gardener and (very) amateur cook, learning how to grow edible mushrooms at home seemed like a no-brainer. Little did I know how little I knew. I ordered fungi guru Paul Stamets’ definitive ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Plant-forward diets in rich countries could have an ...