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It has been over 7 months since I first started mushroom farming and I have yet to create a clean petri dish inoculation. So far, I have...

To get to a run rate of 300 lbs a week, one should be conservative and assume a BE of 100% and not 100 - 150% as is the case with more...

As of this present day, many successful mushroom businesses have been running for around or more than a decade. Some of these businesses...

One of my initial goals was to do my own grain spawn in house - alas six months has passed and I have yet to get there. The bottle neck...

Frustrated that my oyster mushrooms' second flushes were not generating as intended, this prompted a deep dive into the reasoning. A high...

I continue to reflect upon second flushes and how to coax them out of the block after the first main flush. Interestingly, after taking...

Just organizing some more thoughts on generating a better second flush. In the previous article, I had come up with ways to help the...

Over the past months, I noticed that my oyster mushroom yields were not as bountiful as they should have been. Under optimal conditions,...

I had my first restaurant delivery a few days ago and delivered 5 lbs to a Korean restaurant nearby where I live. In addition to that, I...

Yesterday, I sterilized an agar medium and 10, 90mm glass petri dishes for the first time. I am finally getting started with trying to...

I recently started to dry and grind the lions mane mushroom into powder and I have been quite pleased with the results. The method I use...

As the summer develops, things are starting to heat up - I am currently selling at two weekday farmers markets at about ~$100/market so...

After ruminating about the sterilization process and ensuring that the reason for suboptimal yields in not the substrate sterilization, I...

Only a few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post, re-directing myself towards three new goals, having believed that I had accomplished my...

A few thoughts concerning proper sterilization. Because of how aggressively the oyster mushrooms had been growing, I thought that I could...

By watching YouTube videos and reading more on mushrooms, I have come to the understanding that preconditioning the air prior to moving...

An internal monologue concerning the needs of the business and personal needs. CEO: MONEY, MONEY, MONEY - We need more money to reinvest...

I was naive in my understanding of how easy it would be to craft the perfect fruiting conditions for my mushrooms. It's true that there...

I had established three main goals over the past four months. They were, after revision as follows. Goal 1: Produce 50 - 60 lbs of...

The pinning process is the process whereby the mycelium starts to channel nutrients for the creation of the mushroom upon exposure to...