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The process by which fungus convert sawdust into mushroom fruiting bodies never ceases to amaze me. How the fungus converts what looks...

It has been nearly eight months since I spontaneously quit my accounting job to start a mushroom farm. In the very beginning, I ran some...

Main Building Blocks: Burner to heat up boiler Boiler to produce steam (30 - 50 gallons minimum) 300 gallon trough to hold blocks Tubing...

My initial plan was to grow both oyster mushrooms and lions mane as my starters and then to expand from there, but I have been having...

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...