The Black Trumpet Blog

For the past few years, our friend Turnip Vegan has been inspiring us with his passion for creating exciting, healthy, and beautifully crafted vegan food. For our most recent collaboration, he made this crispy buffalo mushrom wrap from scratch using freshly harvested blue oyster mushrooms from one of our Spray & Grow Kits.

This article explores 5 of the best ways to cook nameko mushrooms, including recipes for curry, risotto, pancakes and more!

Learn how to make exciting healthy vegan foods with our friend Turnip Vegan! This easy recipe combines simple and delicious ingredients to make a vegan fish sandwich using lion's mane mushrooms.

This article explores 5 of the best ways to cook your homegrown shiitake mushrooms, including recipes for stir-fry, miso soup, and more.

Learn how to make exciting healthy vegan foods with our friend Turnip Vegan! This easy recipe combines simple and delicious ingredients to make scratch vegan hot dogs using North Spore's own lion's mane mushroom.

Snow oysters have a milder, sweeter flavor and firmer texture than their oyster cousins. Zach at Spore to Fork shares five mouth-watering dishes highlighting their unique taste and texture, including mushroom tempura and a candied maple surprise!

Chestnut mushrooms are beloved for their woodsy aroma, crunchy texture, and rich, nutty, mildly-sweet flavor. Zach at Spore to Fork shares five unforgettable chestnut recipes, including your new favorite cream of mushroom soup!

In this guide, you will learn both jar tech and bin tech methods, including preparation, inoculation, growing, and harvesting.

Awhile back, the team at FirstBuild reached out to us about the Mella Smart Mushroom Fruiting Chamber they were creating and asked if we would like to help advise the development team. And, of course, we jumped at the opportunity. This automated mushroom growing appliance has been designed to fit into small spaces (e.g. kitchen countertops) and to make the process of mushroom growing easier, cleaner, more practical for smaller-scale growers and hobbyists. (Think high-tech tiny version of a Martha tent.)

We know mushrooms can do so much to support our bodies, but did you know that includes the outside too? Snow mushrooms are especially adept at hydrating, soothing, and brightening skin.