Growing Mushrooms at Home is Everyone’s New Pandemic Hobby

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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.

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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