Understanding how mushrooms grow is crucial to successfully cultivating them, and "Mushroom Cultivation: An Illustrated Guide to Growing Your Own Mushrooms at Home" offers comprehensive instruction both on how mushrooms grow and how you can cultivate them yourself to enhance your soil, expedite your composting process, and even to suppress weeds. The book also discusses cultivating mushrooms for medicinal use and making them into teas and tinctures. This book features a large number of illustrations and photographs, making it perfect for the visual learner.