Connections are the heart of life. Here at Mossy Creek Mushrooms, we’ve had a great time building relationships with business owners, growers, restaurants, and people we’ve met, however, we feel it’s time to branch out and build up a larger colony of connections around our passion for mushrooms. We’ll start with building up communications, and interacting on social media more.
Growth, in people and businesses, brings changes. In many ways, changes can also bring growth. With that in mind, we have many upcoming changes.
Much like penicillin, the idea for creating custom “weapon” mushrooms to fight illnesses came about on accident. A Tradd Cotter mushroom farmer and researcher in Greenville, SC returned after a vacation to discover two different strains of fungi warring with each other in a petri dish he had thrown out. After taking a closer look, he realized that there were droplets on the invading species, but none on the original. These droplets were metabolites, a mixture the mushrooms create to fight off dangerous microbes.
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.
We shipped out several grow bags of both Chicken of the Woods and Maitake (also known as hen of the woods) to our contract growers. They will try different methods on the bags and see if they can duplicate our success. If all goes well, you could be seeing Chicken of the Woods on our menu in the semi near future.
