11/14/2023 0 Comments Laminar flow hood for mycologyProfit Wait a few months and start looking up mushroom recipesįrom start to finish with questions and comments I really think this one will only take an hour or so. Soak corrugated cardboard and lay it down to help as weed control and eventually turn into fungi foodĬover all the jive you’ve been puttin’ down with wood chips The process we will demonstrate is straight forward, we will If you have a patch of ground and a big dream, you my friend can make your steamy fantasy of becoming a mushroom farmer a reality. As long as you keep them moist, they will grow in full sun but some shade makes life easier. Where most mushrooms are grown on logs or in buckets or bags, Wine Caps thrive in gardens and beds. They are easy to grow and they don’t really take any equipment beyond what you probably already have in your garage as a bonus you should get a harvest the same year you plant and they are delicious to boot. Wine Cap Mushrooms (Stropharia rugosoannulata) scratch a lot of beginning mycologists itches. with me…now onto a bold mycological future I really thought that both of those get togethers might have turned into solo excursions but Chattanooga came through and they were so much fun (with a little danger thrown in but that’s a story for another pint). Thanks to everyone who has shown interest and encouragement in this project and a special thanks to those who have participated in the first two events that we have done - an initial meetup at OddStory brewing and the Oyster Mushroom Log Inoculation workshop on the beautiful Cumberland Plateau. So many people have reached out and I think we are going to have a very successful club where we can share camaraderie, ideas, growing tips & experiences. It occurred to me that if I was interested in this, you probably were too and boy was I right. Millions of YouTube videos watched and reddit posts read - later, I was ready to grow some Shiitake…and Oysters … and Morels…you get the picture. My wife, who is used to this kind of over saturation with esoteric minutia, was appalled to catch me listening to mushroom podcasts (they are out there), but alas that is where things had gone. Me too! (nice to see you fellow obsessives). I suspect that your interest in this club predisposes you as the type of person who goes f-ing overboard gets endearingly immersed in their passions. I knew that I had to give mushroom growing another look. ![]() These growing experiences along with some fortuitous hiking finds of Chicken of the Woods and Maitake were creating an action-item in my brain With almost no attention this block was spewing out amazing beautiful Blue Oysters. Fast forward to the early long-haired COVID days, when everyone was looking for wholesome diversions…a man can only drink so many (delicious hand crafted) cocktails and eat so much sourdough bread before his consciousness turns to other things to shove down his pie-hole… enter an Oyster Mushroom Grow Kit my son was gifted, it was amazing. Despite my unrealistic expectations, I was not soon swimming in kiddie pool of those savory fungi caps BUT we got a few and that was enough to plant a seed (spore?) in my mind. To catch you upon what got us here - several years ago a friend and I bought a bag of Shiitake dowels and inoculated some unknown tree that I cut out of an overgrown area of my yard. If you are reading this you are in on the ground floor of mushroom revolution in Chattanooga, Congrats! That 4th grade math teacher that insisted that you were never going anywhere is eating those hurtful words now, Finally!
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