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Kōrero: Mushrooms and other cultivated fungi

Turning mushroom compost

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Turning mushroom compost

In New Zealand, mushroom compost is usually made from a mixture of wet straw, animal manure and gypsum (calcium sulfate). At Meadow Mushrooms in Christchurch, large piles of compost are mechanically turned regularly, to aerate the compost and maintain its temperature at 65–80°C.

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Landcare Research – Manaaki Whenua

by Peter Buchanan

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Maggy Wassilieff, Mushrooms and other cultivated fungi – Mushroom industry, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/16819/turning-mushroom-compost (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Maggy Wassilieff, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.