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How to Find & Identify Chanterelle Mushrooms
This week's blog highlights the popular and tasty chanterelle mushroom, including how to identify, collect, and cook these golden beauties, along with the many ways this single mushroom boosts both human and forest health.
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How to Grow Mushrooms in Bags: The Complete ShroomTek Method
Growing your favorite mushrooms just got a lot easier with ShroomTek, North Spore’s hotly awaited All-In-One Complete Mushroom Grow System. In this feature we cover necessary materials and methods for success in the inoculation, storage, colonization, fruiting and harvesting of your ShroomTek, along with important environmental considerations.
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4 Easy Ways to Preserve Mushrooms
Here we discuss a number of simple preservation techniques for keeping mushrooms edible for the long term, covering best practices and simple recipes to enjoy the fruits of your labor for longer while expanding your culinary opportunities throughout the year.
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Guide to Sterile Substrates & Mushroom Compatibility
We dive into the sterile substrates of North Spore, including what they are, how they're used, and which species grow best in each.
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How to Grow Mushrooms in Buckets & Containers
The bucket tek, or technique, is one of the most reliable methods to grow oyster mushrooms quickly and on a predictable schedule. We’ll teach you how to source and prepare buckets, pasteurize your substrate, inoculate, and incubate your buckets with mushroom spawn.
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5 of the Best Mushrooms to Grow on Logs
Get started on spawn season with the 5 best mushrooms to grow on logs! We've included information on shiitake, oyster, lion's mane and reishi, their preferred method of log cultivation, ideal substrate, flavor profile and interesting facts about each species.
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Common Contamination in Mushroom Cultivation
In this article we cover five common contaminants in mushroom cultivation and offer tips for reducing unwanted contamination in future grows.
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Using your All American Pressure Sterilizer
Sterile technique is at the heart of indoor mushroom cultivation, so if you want to step up your game we recommend purchasing an All American Sterilizer to sanitize your equipment and homemade substrates.
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Mycology Lab Skills: Plates, Slants, & Liquid Culture
In this blog post, we cover some basic laboratory skills in preparing and using plates, slants, and liquid culture.
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How to Grow Shiitake Mushrooms on Logs
Growing shiitake mushrooms on logs is one of the most satisfying and sustainable means of cultivating mushrooms. It’s more cost-effective...
How to Get More Life From Your 'Spray & Grow' Mushroom Kit
Our Spray and Grow Kits are an easy and convenient way to start growing mushrooms. After they’re done fruiting on your kitchen counter, there are a few ways you can reuse your kit and keep on growing! Sometimes a little fresh air is all that a kit needs to be revitalized.
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Fall Mushroom Inoculation
Fall is creeping up on us here in Maine. Days are getting shorter, shadows longer, and the night air is...
Experimenting with our Modified Monotub
Our latest experiment with our modified monotub: growing Black King oyster mushrooms on our Boomr Bag bulk substrate.
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How Do Mushrooms Grow?
Neither plant nor animal, fungi are unique organisms. By learning more about their biology - how, where, and when do...
Mushrooms You're Sure to Grow
When you're starting to grow anything, whether it's vegetables in your garden or plants in your home, you want to...
Tools of the Trade
You don't need many materials to jump right into mushroom cultivation but it helps to have the right tools. North...
