This video will show you how to grow oyster mushrooms on straw bale in containers. In this six part Mycology in the Garden video series, we will show you five low-cost and low-tech ways to grow edible mushrooms outdoors. These basic techniques require no special equipment or electricity, and can all be done outdoors using organic materials found such as straw, leaves, wood chips and logs which all make for great mushroom substrate.

In traditional straw bale gardening, bales are “conditioned” by adding nitrogen-rich compost or manure to the bale to provide nutrients and initiate decomposition while growing veggies. You can use mushroom grain spawn in a similar way, and the fungi will facilitate the faster breakdown of the straw while growing mushrooms.

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Hi-Fi Myco is Austin’s first urban mushroom farm. This month's feature mushroom giveaway is the Lion’s mane, Hericium erinaceus.

In this six part Mycology in the Garden video series, we will show you five low-cost and low-tech ways to grow edible mushrooms outdoors in shady areas where plants would not thrive. You can grow them alongside your vegetables, perennials, or in the shade of trees. These basic techniques require no special equipment or electricity, and can all be done outdoors using organic materials found such as straw, leaves, wood chips and logs which all make for great mushroom substrate.

This video is part one of a series about growing mushrooms in the garden outdoors. Fungi Are Great Recyclers: One billion years ago, the fungi kingdom began decomposing, carbon rich, hard-to-digest organic matter into forms that other organisms can use. We would not have the soil that we walk on today if not for the fungi kingdom. Growing mushrooms in the garden helps decompose common organic matter faster, while growing a food source.

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Hi-Fi Myco is Austin's first urban mushroom farm. This month's feature mushroom and giveaway is the local cloned variety of oyster mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus.

The Split Gill Mushroom, Schizophyllum commune was one of the beautiful mushrooms we spotted on the foray to kick-off the Zilker Mushroom Project this past weekend. It is super common and can be found decomposing logs and stumps. It can even dehydrate and rehydrate. The real show are the split gills on the underside of the mushroom.

The Texas Stars came out for our Zilker Mushroom Project kick-off this afternoon. We saw it in its many forms, cigar all the way to full 6 points. They are found near dead cedar elms, which are all over Austin. Just look closely at the base of the dead stump for the cigar shape.

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Hi-Fi Myco is Austin's first urban mushroom farm. This month's feature mushroom and giveaway is the local cloned variety of oyster mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus.