Memorial Mushrooms

11/02/2026

This is absolutely the funniest tagline for an autoclave I have seen. This is just classic. LOL! They are not messing around.

11/01/2026

After our liquid culture has grown we need to check if its actually any good. We test it by putting a drop onto a few sterile agar petri dishes to see what grows. If it all looks good, we are ready to innocculate the grain. If we see problems, we have saved ourselves from wasting grain with contaminated culture.

10/31/2026

Start your Halloween at the King George Farmers Market. We have some lovely mushrooms and butterflies. Our friends have all of the pumpkins, produce, bread, meats and treats you will need. LAST MARKET OF THE YEAR!!! Bring the kids. Dont miss it!!

10/31/2026

Come start your Halloween at the King George Farmers Market. We have amazing mushrooms and butterflies and our friends have all the pumpkins, produce, bread, meats and treats you will need. LAST MARKET OF THE YEAR!!! Dont miss it!!

10/29/2026

Mom and I are going to sign up for the King George Holiday Bazaar Craft Fair. She has her embroidery and I have my paint kits. But here is the big question we need help from all of you to answer: should we also bring mushrooms? We could box them up or paper bag them in handy quantities for folks to buy, but do you think anyone will buy fresh mushrooms at a craft bazaar? I think if we have any dried mushrooms it will be easy to include those, but what about fresh? I kind of want to bring at least some but sort of on the side, not like the farmers market. What do you think?

10/29/2026

I just harvested some gorgeous white and blue oyster mushrooms and have them cooling in the commercial fridge. Cooling them quick arrests their growth and helps them stay fresh longer. Then I remembered that I forgot to share my new liquid cultures. This is a shiitake culture. The slimy bottom layer is mushroom mycellium. The solution is 10g light malt extract and 500 ml water sterilized in the autoclave. The white pill shaped thing is a stir bar; a plastic coated metal bar that, when put on a stir plate, helps agitate the solution. Keeps everything loose and redistributes nutrition and air. This weekend I will test this solution on an agar petri dish to check its quality and then it will be ready to go into hydrated grain. Not the final step but a pretty important one.

10/17/2026

Its frog weather but the mushrooms love it! Come out and get some Chestnut mushrooms to saute up later. We will be here at the King George Farmers Market until noon.

10/14/2026

Our chestnut mushrooms are going crazy! We will have lots on Saturday. An online chef says to put the chestnuts into a pan with a little butter or olive oil and let them cook until they get a bit brown and crispy on the edges. He said not to put vegetable stock or water because it makes the texture bad. Please come out Saturday and buy some. We also will have some White Oyster Mushrooms which, if the lovely sweet smell is any indication, should be delicious. Some blue oyster and some lions mane to round out the weekend as well.

10/03/2026

King George Farmers Market is rain or shine. Get your rain boots and come get some wonderful local vegetables, meats, breads and so much more. We have beautiful chestnut and white oyster mushrooms.

09/12/2026

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34505919/ Did you see this study? They discovered that a spoon of dried oyster mushroom powder added to a meal improved the levels of natural GLP-1 by 17% and increased feelings of fullness. The addition of oyster mushroom powder to your food can reduce your risk of developing diabetes and obesity.

German Clinical Trial Register on 09/08/2018; trial-ID: DRKS00015244.