Organic Educator Spray and Grow Mushroom Kit (Lion's Mane)

€26,95

Bring decomposition and fungal biology to life in your classroom!

Our Certified Organic Spray & Grow kit turns a core NGSS life science topic into a hands-on experience your students can watch unfold over one to two weeks. No lab setup, no special equipment- just open, spray, and observe fresh mushrooms grow straight from the box. Every kit includes a free NGSS-aligned curriculum guide built for K-2, 3-5, and 6-8 classrooms.

As Easy as 1-2-3

Open - Remove the perforated front panel

Spray - Spritz daily with the included mister

Observe - Fresh mushrooms in as little as 7 days, ready for students to harvest and examine

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USDA Certified Organic

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Trusted by 350K+ Growers

Trusted by 350K+ Growers

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Our Lion's Mane mushroom kits produce shaggy, white, brain-like clusters that look nothing like a typical mushroom. With continued proper care, you may get multiple flushes. We 100% guarantee your first, but hope you'll try for two or three. Best flavor and texture come from harvesting just before the clusters fully mature.

Every purchase includes a free downloadable curriculum guide. Verified educators get 10% off.


What's Included

Each Kit Includes:

  • 1x Spray & Grow Box
  • 1x Spray Bottle
  • Detailed Instructions
  • NGSS Aligned Curriculum for K-2, 3-5, 5-8

Shelf Life: 6 months (refrigerated)
Kit dimensions: 10"(H) x 5"(W) x 5"(D)
Kit weight: 4 lbs

Instruction Booklet(included in Kit)

Using a Spray and Grow Kit

Details

Why We Love Them:

Our best-selling lion's mane kits produce plump, dense, shaggy, delicious mushroom clusters. Lion’s mane is highly versatile and can be enjoyed cooked, dried, extracted, or even steeped as a tea! And because it contains brain-supporting compounds, it’s also a popular medicinal mushroom in addition to a delicious fungi fan favorite. (Meatless crab cakes, anyone?)

100% Guaranteed

Our lion's mane mushroom kits are known for growing large flushes of beautiful creamy white mushrooms when given adequate humidity. With continued proper care, you may be able to get multiple flushes. (We 100% guarantee your first flush of mushrooms, but hope you'll try for 2 or 3!) 

Note: Lion's mane can be prone to drying out if the ambient humidity is too low, so we recommend that you water it generously.

It's mycelium!

Your kit includes an amended sawdust block fully colonized with mushroom mycelium. It may appear covered with a soft, white substance - that's the mushroom mycelium! It is completely normal. The mycelium of some species is more prominent than others.

Educator Specifications

Shelf Life: 6 months (refrigerated)
Kit dimensions: 10"(H) x 5"(W) x 5"(D)
Kit weight: 4 lbs

Instruction Booklet (included in Kit)

Using a Spray and Grow Kit

Free NGSS-Aligned Curriculum:

  • K-2: K-LS1-1, 2-LS4-1 
  • 3-5: 3-LS1-1, 5-LS2-1
  • 6-8: MS-LS1-1, MS-LS1-2, MS-LS1-5, MS-LS1-6, MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-3, MS-LS2-4

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Frequently Asked Questions

Inside your Spray & Grow Kit is a living organism, so we recommend activating it upon receipt. If you need to wait, they can be refrigerated for up to 6 months. 

It's important to get the area where you cut open the bag nice and damp! Try 5-10 sprays each time. If the surface of the block seems very dry the next time you spray it, you should give it a bit more water or water a bit more often. If you run AC or live in an arid climate, using a humidity tent can be useful to prevent your block from drying out.

We guarantee at least one fruiting of mushrooms off your kit, but it is possible to have multiple fruitings with care and patience. In terms of yield, you can usually expect your first flush to be somewhere in the range of 1/2 of a pound to 2 lbs. Each subsequent fruiting will likely be smaller as the fungi use up nutrients in the substrate.

The word fruit can be very specific, referring to foods like berries and apples, or a bit more general to refer to how an organism reproduces. So tomatoes and rosehips are the fruits of those plants; they contain the seeds. Mushrooms are the fruits of a fungus; they contain spores. So when a fungus starts to produce mushrooms, we call that fruiting.

Hold the cluster near the base and spin them. If you'd rather use a knife and cut them, that's fine too! Clean off any loose bits from the kit before continuing to spray and cut off any bits of sawdust from the block on your mushrooms before cooking and eating them.

After removing the front panel of the box along the perforated lines, cut an X into the exposed plastic. Remember to leave the plastic flaps of the X on the bag, they'll help to keep moisture in. The mushrooms will easily grow out of the sliced X section, so no need to open it up more as they fruit.

Absolutely! Mushroom cultivation is a great activity to do with the whole family, whether you'd like to grow indoors or outdoors. If you're new to mushrooms, we recommend starting with a Spray & Grow Kit or a Plant & Grow Kit – both make it easy to grow fresh, organic mushrooms at home.

We want you to have the best possible experience with every North Spore product and guarantee free replacements within 30 days of receipt for any damaged, contaminated, or unusable product.

We recommend absolute beginners start with our Spray & Grow Kits, which make growing mushrooms at home super easy.

Cluster of brown-capped mushrooms with long, light-colored stems against a white background.

Fresh Mushrooms at Home, Fast

Spray & Grow kits bring the magic of mushroom cultivation to your countertop. In as little as two weeks, you’ll be harvesting gourmet mushrooms right at home—no special equipment needed.

Backed by Our 100% Grow Guarantee

Every kit comes with our 100% Guarantee: You’ll get your first flush of mushrooms, or we’ll make it right. With over 350,000 happy growers, North Spore is trusted by hobbyists, chefs, and mycologists alike.

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