grow your own mushroom garden kit
Description
- Grow up to 1 1/2 lbs of tasty pearl oyster mushrooms
- Multiple crops (at least 2, though some have got up to 4!)
- Grow your first crop in as little as 10 days!
- Just 3 Easy Steps - Open, Mist, and Harvest (spray mister included).
- All indoors - just set on a kitchen window sill and mist twice a day (mister included)
- The soil inside is 100% recycled coffee grounds - safe & sustainable
By FLORENCE FABRICANT
Published: November 22, 2011
"That impulse to grow your own, recycle and even give a worthwhile holiday gift? Satisfy it with mushrooms.
Follow the simple but exacting directions on a new mushroom-cultivating kit, and in a week to 10 days, you will be able to harvest about a quarter-pound of lovely oyster mushrooms to sauté and enjoy with a roast, on pasta or in a salad.
The growing medium is discarded coffee grounds from Peet’s Coffee that would otherwise go into a landfill. Alejandro Velez and Nikhil Arora, who came up with the concept before they graduated from business school at the University of California, Berkeley, now recycle about 20,000 pounds of grounds a week. The kits, in a recyclable plastic bag packed in a cardboard box, produce two to four crops. Replacement inserts are available online."
