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Wholesale Commercial Mushroom Spawn, Substrates & Cultures
North Spore’s commercial grower program is designed for small to mid-sized mushroom farms
We know what it’s like being a small mushroom farm. When we started growing mushrooms in 2014, there wasn’t a spawn company for the small to mid-sized grower. Legacy behemoths in the spawn industry made millions selling pallets of spawn to button mushroom farms. The small guys were an afterthought.
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The North Spore Difference
Today, North Spore is one of the most respected producers of organic edible mushroom spawn for small to medium growers and farmers in the USA. North Spore also produces a wide range of sterile substrates including our flagship manure substrate, Boomr Bag, as well as Mastr Mix, Wood Lovr, and Sterile Grain Bags. And all of North Spore’s cultures, spawn and sterile substrates are available to commercial accounts through this program.
We want your mushroom operation to be successful and invite you to apply to our commercial program for prioritized shipments, competitive pricing, expert advice, and dedicated account management.
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Quality Control & Assurance Protocols
We know that clean and healthy spawn is the bedrock of your mushroom farm. Our staff mycologists keep up to date on all best practices in our field. We maintain a state of the art mycology laboratory in Portland, Maine housed within our greater 25,000 sq ft production and fulfillment facility. North Spore is vertically integrated from culture work all the way to spawn and substrate production ensuring a quality end product.
We have a dedicated QAQC team that tests every batch of grain and substrate before it’s inoculated. We designed and built our labs to ensure every advantage in the infrastructure and process for maintaining clean conditions. HEPA-filtered air is returned to the plenums above the rooms and recycled, resulting in positive pressures in the rooms and continuous scrubbing of the air.
✔️ Our Laboratory is split between our production labs, culture laboratory, and Ultra Clean Lab built to ISO 7 standards with 90 air changes per hour
✔️ Lab personnel wear tyvek suits, gloves, head and face coverings and work in laminar flow hoods
✔️ We perform monthly particle counts of all rooms to verify that the systems are working correctly
✔️ All of our flow hoods get tested weekly using a particle counter and settle plates to ensure the hoods are functioning properly
✔️ Grain spawn is made in a dedicated lab space and is inoculated in a laminar flow hood by trained personnel
✔️ Every 3 months we make new plates from our freezer stock
✔️ Cultures are maintained in a −80 ◦C freezer in glycerol, a cryoprotectant protect the cells from damage due to ice crystal formation
✔️ We use bioindicators to monitor our autoclaving process and have a dedicated quality control department
✔️ All sterilized substrates are tested after autoclaving for the presence of bacteria
✔️ Product batches are also tested for optimal pH and moisture content
More importantly, we focus on the greatest source of contamination: humans.
We provide rigorous training for sterile technique and uphold the highest practice standards for our lab employees.
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What Growers Are Saying
"Their sales and service team is amazing. The spawn is of superior quality and fast growing. We recommend them to everyone. Thank you for keeping our small farm alive and running!"
Wayne H.
"I'm a small mushroom farmer in CT. Their cultures are vigorous and produce great fruit. Compared to other producers, their prices are very reasonable. I highly recommend North Spore!"
Dan M.
"Good quality grain spawn, quick delivery, and high quality products. Also a good way to step into liquid culture tech, too. It's been an overall excellent experience working with North Spore!"
Jeffrey K.
Sustainability Committment
North Spore spawn is USDA-certified organic, and we produce 100% of our spawn, sterile substrates, cultures, and kits. We take our customer's needs seriously and are fortunate to have multiple staff mycologists leading research and development, plus trained lab technicians overseeing our spawn and substrate production, in-house laboratory, and in-house culture bank.
We are also company committed to the environment and sustainability and make every effort to provide organic, natural, non-GMO, and locally sourced materials from companies that share our values.
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