Cultivation Set "Brown Cap", mushrooms

Grow your own mushrooms and observe them!

With this practical mushroom growing kit, you can cultivate your own brown cap mushrooms all year round. You will be amazed how well the mushrooms grow. With a bit of preparation, you will get large quantities of delicious mushrooms. The detailed instructions make the process straightforward and lots of fun. Observe, be amazed, and harvest the mushrooms – everything you need is contained in this complete set.

Observing nature in nursery and primary school and at home
Children find it fascinating watching the mushrooms grow, and everyone will love the flavour of the freshly harvested brown cap mushrooms. You can get up to four harvests of delicious brown cap mushrooms with your study group using your mushroom cultivation box.

Mushrooms in lessons: biology and domestic science
In biology, the mushroom cultivation sets let you teach about and observe the appearance, structure, metabolism and reproduction of these eukaryotic organisms. Remove the samples for analysis and examination under a microscope. Mushrooms in ecosystems, mushrooms as food and therapeutic substances, fungal toxins, mushrooms as produce pest, relationships and phylogeny are other topics on the curriculum which can be covered in lessons alongside the project.

Mushrooms as a foodstuff, and the preparation of meals with brown cap mushrooms are points of reference for domestic science lessons. The ideal approach is to use this as an interdisciplinary project, which can even be extended into the area of business studies by examining the topic "Mushrooms as an international trade commodity".

Use the mushroom growing set to support Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). The protection and conservation of our planet's biodiversity are goals of the global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This biodiversity also includes fungi, which play a key role in the conservation of natural resources as well as being environmentally and economically important. Lots of plants have a symbiotic relationship with fungi in order to supply themselves with nutrients. Fungi also act as decomposers, removing plant and animal waste by penetrating dead biomass with their hyphae and breaking it down with their digestive enzymes. Working with mushrooms can inspire children to get involved in preserving habitats and protecting the environment and nature.

Tip 1: Storage
If you want to store the unopened mushroom box for later use, you should choose a storage location that is as cool, dry and frost-free as possible, with temperatures below 20 °C.

Tip 2: Improving harvests
After 2-3 weeks, once the soil is completely covered with mushroom spawn, transfer the mushroom box to a cool environment (15-18 °C). You will get much more successful harvesting results this way.

Project duration: approx. 5-8 weeks

Scope of delivery:

• 1 mushroom growing box, brown caps
• detailed instructions
• 6 worksheets, differentiated for nursery and school
• digital exercises on the topic of mushrooms (online)

Also required: 3 litres of water, 2 litres of potting soil, 4 pins or adhesive tape and an oven

• an easy way to grow your own mushrooms
• complete set: everything included
• incl. detailed instructions, worksheets, differentiated by kindergarten and school
• suitable for projects in education for sustainable development (ESD)
• breeding brown caps works well after some preparation
• includes online access to digital exercises