The Mushroomery

Learn how to grow, cultivate and cook incredible mushrooms at home.

Growing mushrooms at home is simple and satisfying – it requires minimal space, no extensive gardening experience, and can produce results in 5–6 weeks. It’s easy to buy a ready-made kit, but you can also grow mushrooms from spores in a bucket or plastic tub, or on logs outside. You can even cultivate mushrooms from store-bought caps. Depending on the variety, you can yield multiple harvests throughout the year.

The projects for growing mushrooms include the following:

– Mushroom kits
– Bucket mushrooms
– Jar mushrooms
– Log mushrooms
– Mushrooms grown in a bag

There is also information on fungi and its classification, the study of mycology, the life cycle of a mushroom and foraging. A handy glossary helps the reader navigate the world of mycology terms, as well as guidance on equipment and where to purchase it, ingredients – spores etc. – and sterilisation.

192 pages, hardcover, published in AUS/NZ in June 2026 by Smith Street Books.

About the Author:

Buttons Mira found her way on a journey through the wonderful and mysterious world of fungi when she started trying to grow a self-sufficient veggie garden. She had grown all manner of different types of veggies but realized she was missing one of her all time kitchen favourites – mushrooms! So she set out trying to learn how to grow them. Little did she know that it would take her years to learn how to grow mushrooms, and how many different varieties and types of mushrooms are in existence. It was to be an eye-opening adventure – with mushrooms of all different flavors and colours of the rainbow. She was hooked. Once she had learned the basics of growing, she wanted to make these new varieties and colours accessible to the wider community. She was also inspired to spread the knowledge of how mushrooms grow and what wonderful benefits they can have for yours and the environments health.

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