anybody grow mushrooms?

[Denninmi]

1. Well, I don't know if its necessarily easy, but definitely fun.

Certainly more fickle than most crops, but if you can control the conditions carefully you can get regular crops.

I'm not sure if you're talking about doing this commercially or just for your own use, so how you go about it will vary.

For personal use, I've bought spawn from Fungi Perfecti several times, with varying degrees of success. The most successful were the King Stropharia (aka Garden Giant), Shitakes, and the Shaggy Manes. Morels and Lions Mane were near total duds. Oysters and Sulfur Shelf mostly duds, but I got a few.

If I do more in the future, I would stick with the King Stropharia and the Shitakes. The shaggy manes are easy to grow, but the problem I've had with them is that they seem to absorb grit and sand right into their tissue as they develop, and NO amount of cleaning seems to remove it - while tasty, its no fun biting down on sandy gritty mushrooms. So I pretty much have given up on bothering to pick them when they grow.