A mushroom is not a plant and it does not grow on its own. It is the fruit of a fungus that lives hidden inside straw or compost. Once you see it that way, every rule of mushroom farming makes sense.
- By the end you can explain the difference between a fungus, its mycelium and the mushroom you sell.
- By the end you can say why a mushroom farm feeds a fungus instead of giving sunlight to a plant.
- By the end you can name the parts of a mushroom and say what each part does.
- By the end you can use the words spawn, substrate, spawn run and flush correctly.