Mycelial Mayhem: Growing Mushrooms for Fun, Profit and Companion Planting

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Exciting book to read, the authors provide detail explanation of what worked and didn't work for them as they grew their mushroom empire. Its technical but not full of jargon and frank on the issues which they didn't figure out. Very good advice if mushroom growing is what you want to do.

There is a single chapter on how to grow a few varieties of mushrooms. The rest of the book is an introduction to fungi (fair enough), a little bit about how to sell what you grow (fair enough), a lot on permaculture, and a lot on business (both of which I have in other books by experts on those subjects). Despite there being a whole chapter supposedly dedicated to companion planting, like another reviewer, the only example I found in the whole book was the suggestion to grow wine cap stropharia under kale, or other shady veg, and that advice had already been mentioned in an earlier chapter.The book also repeats itself, gives information in a strange order, and contains a lot of typos.If you are interested in growing mushrooms, business and permaculture, then this may be the book for you. I suspect that, even so, you might be better getting three different books on each of the three subjects by different experts specialising in each of the fields.

there is a lot of good information in this book, however it does not go into great detail about actually growing mushrooms. It actually tells you to go elsewhere for that information. This is a book you need if you are interested in selling mushrooms. To grow mushrooms get Paul stamets the mushroom cultivator and growing edible and medicinal mushroom(also I would say you really need both of those)

It was fine