A complete beginner’s guide to growing mushrooms. Step-by-step instructions, with drawings and photographs-16 in full color, introduce the novice to the full range of growing methods, from sterile culture procedures-the basis of all tissue culture cloning techniques-to indoor bottle gardens to indooroutdoor compost gardens. Includes a section on producing small quantities of precisely-mixed compost indoors and a taxonomy of selected psilocybin-containing mushrooms.