The Black Trumpet Blog

Our Mycology Lab Skills lesson demonstrates how to prepare three kinds of growth media for mushroom cultivation. We’ll show you how to make MYA for plates, PDA for slants, and Malt Yeast for liquid culture. These skills are essential for growing gourmet edible and medicinal mushrooms and propagating desired qualities. While we used a sterile lab for the lesson, the same techniques can be adapted for a home setting.

We have put together a list of popular and helpful tools for growing your favorite edible and medicinal fungi indoors and outside. In this article we cover the basics: spores, spawn, grow chambers, along with tools you'll need to keep your workspace clean and tidy.

Wondering what gift to get that mushroom lover in your life? These unique ideas are sure to please any fungi fanatic, foodie, or forager. From beginner to expert, we've got you covered for the holidays and beyond.

Should you grow your mushrooms in an all-in-one bag or in a monotub? Let's find out!

Whether inoculating grain jars, cloning your favorite edible or medicinal mushrooms, or mixing bulk substrates our new NocBox Still Air Box is a practical and affordable choice for those looking to reduce contamination with confidence.

Found from North America to Europe and Asia, Hen of the Woods, or Maitake, is a versatile gourmet edible mushroom with a rich history and countless benefits to human health.

Here is a step by step guide for success using the Boomr Bin. Created by mycologists, our modular design is a fresh take on a tried and true method for cultivating your favorite edible and medicinal mushrooms at home, confidently.

In this article we offer advice for aspiring mushroom hunters, including resources for identification along with a fascinating interview with Maine's poisonous mushroom expert Greg Marley.

As fall arrives, it's time to prepare mushroom projects for spring. We've pulled together some late-season project ideas for growing mushrooms in beds, containers, and logs and have some tips for region-specific projects.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

Our latest experiment with our modified monotub: growing Black King oyster mushrooms on our Boomr Bag bulk substrate.