Oyster mushrooms are ostensibly the easiest edible mushroom to grow, making them the succulent of the fungi world and a great addition to your indoor garden if you’re not exactly a pro. These mushroom spores are planted on the inside of aspen and poplar trees and delivered to your doorstep ready to flourish. Just place them in a damp, cool, and dark setting and wait for the magic to happen. 

Once your shrooms are ready to harvest, you can treat them like a meat substitute and serve them fried, sautéed, or added into pastas, stews, and soups. “Oyster mushrooms are earthy, aromatic, and sweet with a subtle anise finish (like black licorice) when cooked,” says Chef Katie Chin, cookbook author and Asian food expert. ”They taste like button mushrooms when eaten raw.”

Grow your own anti-inflammatory, microbiome-balancing, immune-boosting oyster mushrooms with this super easy-to-use at-home kit.

Introducing the crème de la crème of oysters: the golden (or yellow) variety. Some consider these bright blooms to be the tastiest of all the oysters. They’re often described as being less earthy than other mushrooms and have a nutty flavor when cooked. 

This particular golden oyster grow box is good for two or more flushes, so if you’re looking for can’t-miss flavor and enough 'shrooms for a summer’s worth of fare, it might just be your best bet.

This grow kit comes from Smallhold, the cutest and most conscientious 'shroom purveyor around. It cultivates lion’s mane mushrooms, which are a superb sub for seafood like lobster and shrimp. They’re not just easy on the appetite, either; lion’s mane mushrooms are renowned for their brain-health-boosting benefits.

Here, another log for your at-home mushroom forest! Shiitakes are bursting with rich, earthy flavors that elevate pastas, risottos, soups, and salads. This log is an investment in many mushroom adventures to come, too, as it’s purported to produce one flush every two months for more than three years.