[Pil-pc-oceania] mushrooms

[tamara griffiths]

I've accidentally deleted the other reply - I'll have to find it again - so 
apols for cross posting

CERES in melbourne is running a program where refugees are learning to grow 
shitake mushrooms.
http://www.ceres.org.au/index1024x768.htm
I have been meaning to go in and meet some of the people involved and ask 
them where they got their mushroom spawn.

hardware stores have the usual mushroom kits.

i collect mushrooms from the wild (I only ever take a few) and chuck them 
around in my burgeoning forest garden. I check what comes up against my 
fungi books (if in doubt, go without - or you might die) and eat what i can. 
it also adds astronomically to the biodiversity and biomass. I have been 
throwing around old shop bought mushrooms too - you could do this with some 
substrate and shop mushrooms too. For substrate and other info look at
http://www.fungi.com/
they can't export here, but they have HEAPS of info on substrates and stuff.

Yours in Mushroom ecxtasy (and obsession)
Tamara

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