Mushroom: The Future Vegetable: Cultivation, Processing and Marketing

Small-scale mushroom production represents an opportunity for farmers interested in an additional enterprises and is a speciality option for farmers without much land. This publication is designed for market gardeners who want to incorporate mushrooms into their systems and for those farmers who want to use mushroom cultivation as a way to extract value from woodlot thinnings and other "waste" materials. Mushroom production can play an important role in managing farm organic wastes when agricultural and food processing by-products are used as growing media for edible fungi.