Intercropping mushrooms with fruit or vegetable crops maximizes production in small spaces and allows each crop to support the other.

This guide describes three of the best mushroom species and their cultivation methods for urban gardens. Each method offers a different set of materials, context, and requirements. Depending on your personal interests and goals, there are many possibilities for incorporating mushrooms into your growing operation.

Consider adding specialty mushroom to your farm to provide a new income source, diversify your crops, utilize unused space or waste streams, and build soil health. These mushrooms are grown in a variety of low-cost ways in outdoor, indoor, and hybrid systems including on logs, in the ground, in raised beds, or in blocks contained in buckets or plastic bags. Crops are sold fresh, dry, powdered, or incorporated into value-added products.