Growing Culinary Mushrooms

Recommendations from Kyle Holt, Co-Owner of Také Box Urban Mushroom Farm

Formerly a chef, Kyle Holt is a co-owner/operator of Také Box Urban Mushroom Farm located in New Orleans, Louisiana. Along with his partner, Caroline, he grows, harvests, and distributes various forms of exotic mushrooms both direct-to-consumer at farmer’s markets as well as wholesale to restaurants throughout the New Orleans area. Také Box’s mission is to facilitate interest in the health benefits and culinary role of mushrooms, while providing a locally sourced product to Louisiana consumers.

Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms - Authored by Paul Stamets
Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
Paul Stamets
Book
This book is essentially the Bible (or insert any religious book here) on mushroom growing written by the authority on mushroom growing in the United States. It provides extensive information on use of mushrooms in early societies, the various abilities of mushrooms (health, environmental, etc.), as well as detailed technical information related to cultivating a wide variety of fungi.
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How I Built This
Back to the Roots: Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez
Podcast
Hosted by Guy Raz, this podcast episode is reminiscent of the story of how many mushroom growers begin. All the mistakes, all the small successes along the way, as you fumble your way towards running a successful mushroom farm, no matter how big or small.
FANTASTIC FUNGI
Fantastic Fungi
Documentary
Film
This film acts as a great introductory to the strange, breathtaking, and always awesome world of Fungi. It does well to cover all the way from origin stories up to the serious potential health benefits that mushrooms can provide.

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