A North West University Masters student has cultivated oyster mushrooms, typically grown in ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 500 news ...

"Worldwide, the button mushroom is the best known, then the oyster and lastly, the shiitaki." Eicker owns a laboratory that produces spawn for the special mushrooms, but particular cultures are ...

They also cultivate spawn — it’s difficult to do this ... “You start with a workshop on growing fast-yielding oyster mushrooms, kindled by curiosity; then you learn how to pasteurise straw ...

Oyster mushrooms and White button mushrooms. To grow them yourself, you first need to buy a selection of spores, or even spawn – these are quite easy to find. Spores are like seeds for mushrooms ...

called mushroom spawn, which are usually imported. “Spawns are not produced in Kenya but a few universities import spawn culture from China and South Africa, from which they make spawns,” said ...