By: Matt

We’ve just put in an order to the first round of spawn (mushroom starter) that will supply our Mushroom CSA. We’ve ordered two species of Oyster mushroom, pleurotus ostreatus… one variety is a blue oyster and one is a brown. We’ve also ordered spawn for Lion’s Mane and Reishi species.

Once the spawn arrives, it will be split up and added to new bags of freshly sterilized grain at a rate of 10%. This lets us take our starter (“Master”) spawn and expand it 10x at a time, so we have enough bulk to grow lots and lots of bags.

Because we have our own on-site lab, we can propagate our own starter instead of having to order it, saving us a lot of money in the long term.

Leslie Seaton from Seattle, WA, USA / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)

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