Growing mushrooms

[BigM]

While looking at the "tiny house" thread, I saw one of the women was growing mushrooms for water filtration. This peeked my curiosity so I looked around the net a bit. Honestly, it sounds like "they" want to make it sound harder than it is by using big scientific words and adding as many steps as possible. To me, it seems to break down into a few simple steps. Am I over simplifying? If I mix rabbit poo with Spanish moss and keep it warm, dark and moist, why can't I just throw some button mushrooms from the store in there and let nature do its thing?

[Granny Smith]

I'm not sure the spores from grocery store mushrooms would be viable, but you can buy spores from Amazon (or someplace else) and 'seed' them.

www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=mushroom+spores&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=30711524321&hvpos=1t2&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3632267481820661493&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=e&hvdev=c

[joanfromzonesix]

Nov 18, 2013 6:51:10 GMT -5 BigM said:

 If I mix rabbit poo with Spanish moss and keep it warm, dark and moist, why can't I just throw some button mushrooms from the store in there and let nature do its thing?

it should work - without all that effort i've found a good crop in the back of my closet in an old pair of tennis shoes -

[BigM]

You crack me up Joan!

Thanks for the link Gayle!