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Home-grown mushroom kits are seeing an explosion in demand, giving people something to do, watch, and cheer on while they’re stuck at home.
Oyster muhsrooms grown in coffee grounds, phạm Lộc
Lockdown and travel restrictions has led to a resurgence in the popularity of crafts, gardening, baking, and other at-home hobbies. Remarkably, half of Canadians grew their own food to some degree last year—17% of whom did so for the first time.
For many of these beginner horticulturalists, mushrooms represented a super-easy way to start things off with, especially if they didn’t have any soil to utilize. The Guardian reports that some companies are seeing 300%-400% increases in sales of starter kits for genera like oyster mushrooms, a beautiful gilled fungi that grows horizontally on logs, trees, and hills in nature.
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Growing Mushrooms at Home is Everyone's New Pandemic Hobby
Oyster muhsrooms grown in coffee grounds, phạm Lộc
Lockdown and travel restrictions has led to a resurgence in the popularity of crafts, gardening, baking, and other at-home hobbies. Remarkably, half of Canadians grew their own food to some degree last year—17% of whom did so for the first time.
For many of these beginner horticulturalists, mushrooms represented a super-easy way to start things off with, especially if they didn’t have any soil to utilize. The Guardian reports that some companies are seeing 300%-400% increases in sales of starter kits for genera like oyster mushrooms, a beautiful gilled fungi that grows horizontally on logs, trees, and hills in nature.
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Growing Mushrooms at Home is Everyone's New Pandemic Hobby