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Intro to Oyster Mushroom Cultivation Training

Lesson 1 of 51 2:06 Code 00-4

A short introduction to the training course and what it will cover.

The reading

Read this before or after watching — they work together. The video shows; this explains.

The introduction. It is short, but the shape of everything that follows is laid out here.

What this course teaches

The whole course is about the oyster mushroom — from a sack of sawdust to a mushroom you can sell. It is not watch-and-done. There is a path through it in order, and every step has a reason behind it.

Two separate lines of work will run: making the food (the sawdust substrate) and making the seed (the spawn). They differ in length and in how delicate they are. They meet at only one point — the planting of the spawn.

Why this video is short

It is only an introduction. The real substance is in the lessons that follow and in each module's written explanation. Use this to see the shape of the whole before you go into detail.

If mushrooms are new to you, do not worry yet about the words you do not recognise — mycelium, substrate, spawn, flush. All of them are explained in Modules 01 to 03, and there is a glossary at the back of the book.

What to look for in the video
  • The place itself — this is the farm in Candelaria where all 51 videos were filmed.
  • The equipment in the background: the drum, the bottles, the plastic. You will see every one of them again later.
The common mistake

Skipping the introduction and jumping straight to the step that looks easiest. Growing mushrooms is a chain — get the first link wrong and the rest is worth nothing.

This is a free lesson. Three of the 51 lessons play without an account, so you can judge whether the course is for you. See what the full course includes.
This is part of Module 01 — What a mushroom actually is. The full explanation of why this step works the way it does is on the module page.