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candela
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How were Mushrooms grown hundreds of years ago?
#23360166 - 06/19/16 08:33 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Just curious, If anybody knows, but how were Mushrooms grown hundreds of years ago?
They didnt know the sterilization techniques, or have the modern equipment that we have today, but yet they still managed to grow mushrooms since millinea.
Alot of the ancient art drawings,that were depicting mushrooms were drawn in caves. Am assuming that it was a sign that they cave was specifically used to grow mushrooms.
Does anybody have an idea on how mushrooms were grown in ancient times?
Edited by candela (06/19/16 08:34 AM)
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Re: How were Mushrooms grown hundreds of years ago? [Re: candela]
#23360172 - 06/19/16 08:36 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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take a few handfuls dry by urself in a dark room and ask the mushrooms.
they'll remember it better than any of us
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Re: How were Mushrooms grown hundreds of years ago? [Re: blindingleaf]
#23360266 - 06/19/16 09:25 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
blindingleaf said: take a few handfuls dry by urself in a dark room and ask the mushrooms.
they'll remember it better than any of us
Sounds like a great place to start looking for your answers OP
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Re: How were Mushrooms grown hundreds of years ago? [Re: Leftfield420]
#23360287 - 06/19/16 09:32 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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They weren't they were foraged and found.
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Re: How were Mushrooms grown hundreds of years ago? [Re: candela]
#23360291 - 06/19/16 09:33 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Folklore; Mycophagy, the act of consuming mushrooms, dates back to ancient times. Edible mushroom species have been found in association with 13,000-year-old archaeological sites in Chile, but the first reliable evidence of mushroom consumption dates to several hundred years BC in China. The Chinese value mushrooms for medicinal properties as well as for food. Ancient Romans and Greeks, particularly the upper classes, used mushrooms for culinary purposes. Food tasters were employed by Roman emperors to ensure that mushrooms were safe to eat.
Mushrooms are also easily preserved, and historically have provided additional nutrition over winter.
Many cultures around the world have either used or continue to use psilocybin mushrooms for spiritual purposes as well as medicinal mushrooms in folk medicine, although these are not considered "edible" mushrooms in the culinary sense.
Mushrooms, the plant of immortality? That’s what ancient Egyptians believed according to the hieroglyphics of 4600 years ago. The delicious flavor of mushrooms intrigued the pharaohs of Egypt so much that they decreed mushrooms were food for royalty and that no commoner could ever touch them. This assured themselves the entire supply of mushrooms. In various other civilizations throughout the world, including Russia, China, Greece, Mexico and Latin America, mushroom rituals were practiced. Many believed that mushrooms had properties that could produce super-human strength, help in finding lost objects and lead the soul to the realm of the gods.
Early Cultivation France was the leader in the formal cultivation of mushrooms. Some accounts say that Louis XIV was the first mushroom grower. Around this time mushrooms were grown in special caves near Paris set aside for this unique form of agriculture. From France, the gardeners of England found mushrooms a very easy crop to grow which required little labor, investment and space. Mushroom cultivation began gaining popularity in England with more experimentation with spawn and publicity in journals and magazines. In the late 19th century, mushroom production made its way across the Atlantic to the United States where curious home gardeners in the East tried their luck at growing this new and unknown crop. However growers had to depend on spawn imported from England which, by the time it reached the U.S. was of poor quality. This industry text suggested that mushroom growing was perfect for florists. Since they grew flowers on benches, florists could just slide mushroom beds right under their flower benches and gain a profit in growing two crops in the area of one. Falconer also thought that mushroom growing was ideal for farmers who had access to growing their own manure and spawn. At the time skilled labor was not a necessity of mushroom growing. It was recommended to house wives as well as a source of home income. Not only did Falconer’s book develop target groups for which growing was suited. It also contained much practical advice on building beds for cultivation, the perfect growing temperature and where mushroom markets were developing.
The first producer of pure culture virgin spawn was the American Spawn Company of St. Paul Minnesota, headed by Louis F. Lambert, a French mycologist. He began the production of brick spawn and advertised it across the country as “Lambert’s Pure Culture Spawn.” It soon proved to be a very popular product. This spawn received a silver medal at the Universal Exposition in St. Louis in 1904. A measure of Lambert’s success was that English spawn was soon being sold under the name “English Pure Culture Spawn.” By 1914, mushroom marketing began to play a much greater role in the industry. It was estimated in one publication that four to five million pounds of mushrooms were grown in the U.S. Cost to the mushroom grower was fifteen to twenty-five cents. At retail, the price was forty to sixty cents per pound. Marketing became very important with a popular theory being to bypass the middle man and aim directly at consumers. It was pointed out that attractive containers would move product and only good looking product would sell.
Mushrooms in the US
In 1891, the first book on mushroom growing was published and it shed new light on the theory of cultivation. William Falconer, a mushroom grower and experimenter from Dosoris, Long Island agreed with the recommendations of agricultural journalists and compiled their theories in Mushrooms: How to Grow Them; A Practical Treatise on Mushroom Culture for Profit and Pleasure.
In 1924, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture boasted that 85% of U.S. mushrooms were grown in Pennsylvania.
In 1930, the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that there were 516 growers in the U.S. and that 350 were in Chester County, Pennsylvania. After 1930, the industry changed rapidly with better spawn production, the development of synthetic manure, and improvements of mushroom growing houses- hence the production of healthier crops. Organizations such as the Mushroom Growers’ Cooperative Association were developed to assist and protect growers. In attempt to find better marketing techniques for mushrooms, the Farm Credit Administration became involved.
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Re: How were Mushrooms grown hundreds of years ago? [Re: candela]
#23360301 - 06/19/16 09:38 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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they were chucked in substrartes and done outdoors using the fruits themselves
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Re: How were Mushrooms grown hundreds of years ago? [Re: bodhisatta]
#23360328 - 06/19/16 09:49 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Trusted Cultivator said: They weren't they were foraged and found.
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Re: How were Mushrooms grown hundreds of years ago? [Re: MysticMoteToter]
#23360407 - 06/19/16 10:20 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Looks like maybe a little over 100 years they were cultivated by humans, but hundreds of years ago nope.
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Re: How were Mushrooms grown hundreds of years ago? [Re: bodhisatta]
#23361726 - 06/19/16 07:22 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hundreds of years ago humans were actually cultivated by mushrooms. Big G has kept this a secret for years.
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