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.

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.

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

Looking for a creative way to cook up some Lion's Mane Mushrooms? Chef Shadi Ramey developed this mouth watering recipe for crispy Lion's Mane Blue Corn Tacos. Check it out!

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.

This article explores the basics of chestnut mushroom cultivation, including how to identify them, where to find them, how to grow them, and how they can be incorporated into your favorite foods.

In this article we illuminate a number of relationships between mushrooms and mortality and introduce a novel fungi-inspired burial technology.

Simply put, they are the first two stages in a life cycle that ends with mushrooms. We’ll discuss their differences, where they fit in the cultivation process, and weigh the pros and cons of using each in a liquid syringe.

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.

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!

Our friend Zach of Spore to Fork created these 5 delicious recipes starring the beloved king trumpet mushroom.

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 blog post, we explore a variety of mushroom biology topics including the fungal lifecycle, primary mushroom characteristics, the structure and function of hyphae, the role of mushrooms in ecosystems, and how mushrooms differ from plants and animals.

From fashion and music to performance and fine art, all creative genres seem to be enamored with nature’s humble muse.

What are some of the ways humans might apply the functionality of fungi to the final frontier? Explore with us.