Your one-stop shop for helpful links, tools, downloads, and everything you need to grow mushrooms at home — whether you're starting your first grow or building a DIY lab.
📦 Recommended Gear & Supplies
Curated links to UK/Europe-friendly vendors (can include affiliate links later):
🍄 Mushroom Supplies
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Spore/Liquid Culture Vendors:
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Pre-sterilised Substrates & Kits:
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Grow Bags, Tubs & Jars:
🛠️ Tools & Equipment
- Pressure Cookers (Instant Pot, Presto)
- Still Air Box materials
- Spray bottles, gloves, alcohol, scalpels
📚 Reading & Learning
🧠 Beginner Guides
📖 Books & PDFs
- Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms – Paul Stamets
- The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible – Dr. K Mandrake
- Radical Mycology – Peter McCoy
- Open-source mushroom PDFs and zines
📊 Tools & Calculators
Coming soon — free tools to make your grow easier:
- 🔢 Substrate Ratio Calculator
- 🧪 Dilution/Spore Count Estimator
- 📅 Fruiting Timeline Tracker
- 🧫 Contam Checker Gallery
- 📦 Monotub Build Planner
🎨 Printables & Templates
- 🖨️ Grain soak log sheet (PDF)
- 🖼️ Fruiting chamber setup visual
- ✍️ Grow diary template
- 📎 Still Air Box cutting guide
- 📋 Sterilisation checklist
🌐 Community & Social
- 🍄 r/MushroomGrowers on Reddit
- 📸 #mycogrow on Instagram
- 🎥 Trusted YouTubers: Bod's Bag Tek, FreshCap, Mushroom Nerd, Willie Myco
- 🧵 Our Discord
🧠 Glossary of Mushroom Terms
Quick definitions for words like:
- Mycelium
- Inoculation
- Colonisation
- Substrate
- Fruiting Body
- SAB / FAE / CVG