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Amy Horrigan

Amy runs MycoNova, LLC, a small-scale mushroom farm in Oregon focused on specialty medicinal and edible mushrooms. Her farm emphasizes closed-loop, low-carbon farming practices. Amy has a special love for native flowers, hoverflies, and creating mycologically active garden soils.

Reishi mushrooms are large, woody fungi with a kidney-shaped cap that is shiny and varnished red to dark orange, growing in moist soil.

Gardening Inspiration

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Reishi Mushrooms

Have you ever wanted to feel like royalty or dreamed of living forever? Let me introduce you to the reishi mushroom. These mushrooms have been used in ancient medicine for over 2,000 years. A mushroom that was reserved for nobility and was known as the “mushroom of immortality.” The reishi mushroom works well in containers or even companion planted in a vegetable garden, and it’s probably easier than you think. In this article, mushroom expert Amy Horrigan shares how to grow this beautiful conk mushroom that flourishes in many environments.

White home-grown mushrooms flourish from plastic bag containers, displaying intricate textures and earthy hues, embodying sustainable cultivation practices and fostering a connection between nature and urban living in a domestic setting.

Edible

How to Grow Mushrooms at Home: A Beginner’s Guide

Do you think you need to be a scientist with a lab to grow mushrooms at home? Armed with a few tips, anyone can do it. In this guide, mushroom farmer Amy Horrigan walks you through all the essentials so that even a total beginner can grow awesome mushrooms!