The right first mushroom is the one your climate already grows, your local straw feeds, your skill can manage and a buyer within an hour's drive will take. Here is an honest way to shortlist.
- By the end you can score your situation on five constraints: climate, materials, skill, market and control.
- By the end you can shortlist one or two species using DMR's temperature and season tables.
- By the end you can recognise when a fashionable species is a bad fit.
- By the end you can plan a small first batch and decide what to measure.