Wine Cap Mushroom Sawdust Spawn

This is my second season growing mushrooms and this is my favorite most trust worthy company I buy spawn from! My wine caps this season are going crazy!

Recieved a high quality living mass of sprightly Wine Cap stropharia spawn and made a nice big bed with mixed woodchips from the electrical COOP. The mycelium is running and colonizing quickly, I believe i'll have my first flush of wine caps by the end of summer. The booklet North Spore included is super helpful in showing the compatibility of strains and mediums. I even made a video showing how I made my Wine Cap mushroom bed with North Spore spawn, Check it out it to see my whole process from clearing land to spreading spawn: https://youtu.be/jjqoSsJNJKo

I don't have any mushrooms from this yet, but my success with each of the kits led me to plant my own little mushroom garden. The spawn easily covered an ~4x4 area and I'm looking forward to a harvest in a couple of months. In the meantime, I'm purchasing my 5th kit!!

First and foremost Northspore has the best information I found when researching starting Wine Caps. North Spore not only has great info on their website but I learned from their YouTube videos as well as Facebook. My Wine Cap spawn came with strong, healthy mycelium. This is our first Wine Cap bed. I'm anxious to see what beautiful Wine Caps grow. My husband made a sign for our bed I've added a picture of it. Thank you North Spore for being a great company!

About the Wine Cap Spawn: We chose Wine Caps because we are soil nerds, garden geeks, and foodies! All our choices in our little urban homestead are based on science and the goal of feeding the soil, before we feed the plants! Plus the fact that we can't get these mushrooms in our farmer's market and we can't wait to taste test it in our next mushroom risotto! We received our spawn in roughly three weeks (kinda cool that they almost make it to order) well packaged, no damage and some informational resources in the box (that's Northspore!). We kept it in the fridge for a week while we built an inground outdoor bed for it. We took it out the fridge two days before innoculating it (as directed on the instructions). We finished the bed with the lasagna style using soaked straw, and spawn. The base of the bed was compost (it used to be an attempt of pollinator flower bed that failed since it is too shaded). It's been two weeks now and there is a thick mat of mycelium already forming! We're stoked! Because we live in high desert - Colorado - we have been keeping a really close eye to moisture levels and have been watering it as need (between every other day and once a week, depending on temps and rains). We'll try and perennialize the used spawn in our landscape after it fruits and we'll come back to update the review if we succeeded! ----- About Northspore: My husband and I wanted to grow mushrooms and all the research we did was a bit discouraging: if you want to grow mushrooms you better move out East Until we got a Newsletter from Northspore highlighting a couple growers in arid conditions and that sparked our interest again! We gobbled up all their resources on the website and youtube channel and we absolutely love that more than just selling spawn they are all about education and enabling others to do what they clearly rock at! We also had a ton of help from whoever handles their social media; I asked a ton of questions on Instagram and was always answered promptly! We have shopped a ton of other growers online before we pulled the trigger, even some that other influencer gardners that we respect recommended. But ultimately the amount of resources and helpfulness, plus the fact that it looks that these guys just love what they do and want every customer to thrive with them, made us go with Northspore. We're so glad we did!