Tag: grow your own mushrooms

Isolating Cultures

By Melanie Andromidas

The process of sectoring cultures takes time, especially if you’re doing a big stack of dishes all at once, but it’s really not complicated. To start, you need to collect a spore print from your mushroom by placing it gill or pore side down on a piece of clean paper, glass, or aluminum foil, covering it, and leaving it overnight.

Four Reasons You Should be Growing Your Own Mushrooms

By Melanie Andromidas

One of our goals is to increase awareness of the many ways mushrooms can benefit the world, thus bringing them back into mainstream culture, in more than just culinary arts. A good way to spread awareness of the magnificent mushroom is having numerous people growing them and educating others. 

Fresh Lion’s Mane Available at Market; More Powder Varieties

By Melanie Andromidas

Powders are great for providing, or enhancing, flavor in dishes. Each mushroom powder has its own taste. While the oyster powder has a more understated soft taste, the shiitake powder has a stronger, more woodsy taste to it. The lion’s mane powder does more enhancing of the other flavors in your dish than adding its own flavor in.