With clear instructions and step-by-step photographs, this comprehensive guide shows you how to cultivate mushrooms in your home, producing shiitakes, oysters, lion's manes, maitakes, and portabellas for your kitchen or a small business. Beginners will learn the best way to use a mushroom kit and how to maintain the sterile procedures and controlled environment that cultivation requires. Novices and the more experienced will learn how to create grain or sawdust spawn and use liquid cultures and fruiting chambers. Advanced readers will thoroughly know how to work with large-scale grain spawn, agar, bag cultures, bulk substrates, and large fruiting chambers to produce mushrooms consistently and in greater quantity.