Comments on: Growing Oyster Mushrooms in a Bucket

By: DIY mushroom cultivation posters « Milkwood: permaculture farming and living

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:56:24 +0000

[...] also our post on growing oyster mushrooms in a bucket (actually two buckets, one inside the other) as a great space-saving strategy for homestead [...]

By: sunnyromy

sunnyromy — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:09:10 +0000

Reblogged this on SunnyRomy.

By: carolinatodos

carolinatodos — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:54:13 +0000

Awesome! This looks like something we could try. We tried drilling plugs into logs but it didn’t work. I’m not sure if its because it dried out or because we didn’t sterilize the logs or what. I’m going to read your other post on making the sawdust.

By: Nick Vowles

Nick Vowles — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:23:17 +0000

This looks like a great, low input way of growing oyster mushrooms for the kitchen. I have played around a bit in the past with mushroom growing and have recenty decided to give growing a regular supply of mushrooms for the kitchen a try. We live on a permaculture demonstration site so I want the system to fit in with our ethics.
Any idea of yields for those buckets, or how many buckets you think it would take to give a family of four a couple of meals a week?
Many thanks for any replies.
Nick

By: abul hossain

abul hossain — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 06:25:39 +0000

good idea you do best in oyster cultures 2 baskets one in side another

By: Deborah M

Deborah M — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 06:33:35 +0000

Wonder about BPA toxins from plastic buckets and if it can permeate mushroom and therefore be a toxic food source?

By: brian kearins.

brian kearins. — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 05:48:06 +0000

Hi Kirsten & Nick do you think the mushrooms would mind square buckets I’ve got plenty,see you at the farm in October.PS Nick wait for me at the crossing,Regards Brian.

By: organicsokc

organicsokc — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:12:30 +0000

Reblogged this on Kim's Organic's Okc Blog.

By: dave fergusson

dave fergusson — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 05:32:53 +0000

I am growing Shiitake in logs using the dowels method, & I wondered if by planting some dowels amongst sterilised straw/ sawdust mix would the mycelium spread into the mix to produce mushrooms?

By: Growing mushrooms in a laundry basket « Milkwood: permaculture farming and living

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 20:01:32 +0000

[...] Milkwood Farm, we’ve opted to grow our oyster mushrooms in double buckets. We chose this technique to alleviate the need to bag or box the inner bucket to maintain humidity [...]