Beneath The Surface
Take a quick tour of some of the steps it takes to grow our mushrooms.
Straw is used to grow many species of mushrooms, but we mostly use it for Oyster production. Mandy is the straw chopper and spawn inoculator!
After chopping, the straw is pasteurized in 165 degree water for two hours. After cooling overnight, it is mixed with grain spawn and stuffed tightly into large poly bags. Small x’s are cut in the plastic for the “primordia,” or tiny baby mushrooms, to emerge from.
The bags are hung in the incubation room for 10 to 14 days, or until the mycelium has fully populated the straw bag.
The incubation room is maintained at 75 degrees and 85% humidity with very little air exchange. Very little light is necessary at this stage because we want the mushrooms to feel like they are underground or inside wood.
Once tiny baby mushrooms erupt from the cuts in the bags, they are moved to the grow room.
The grow room is much cooler, with abundant light and all the fresh air we can pump in. The mushrooms now feel like they are outdoors, but there’s no dirt, bugs, or soaking rain!
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