So you want to know what its like to grow some fresh mushrooms? First off, lets make a few things clear.
- Light is required, gourmet mushrooms do NOT grow in caves
- Time is required, healthy natural grown mushrooms do NOT grow up overnight
- Patience and daily attention is recommended, like owning a cat, rewards are greater with more attention
Our first offering of DIY mushroom growing is geared for a high level of success, the absolute best taste, most beautiful fruit, and it happens to be the mushroom containing MORE brain health nutrients than all others.
Bears Head Tooth
Format – cylindrical recycled plastic jar about 3″ in diameter and about 11″ tall, containing 3/4# substrate at planting. Plastic lid with labyrinth seal and filter patched vent hole in top.
Media – Pilgrimage Farm LLC proprietary 100% sustainable gourmet mushroom substrate, all grown by God here in middle Tennessee with no help from us. Configured for maximum yield of flavor and health benefit. Inoculated with Hericium Americanum spawn also produced sustainably, by us here in the middle.
Process – containers are all UV sterilized just prior to inoculation. Substrate is super-pasteurised to eliminate bad competitor micro-organisms but leave a beneficial micro-biome to facilitate a strong consistent health benefit
Growth Cycle – We grow out the initial 5+ weeks in a controlled environment to insure proper and complete colonization.
YOU take it from here
First simply cut ONLY 1 hole ~1/4″ diameter in the curve about 1/2″ up from the bottom of the jar
Find a location, preferably outside in the shade and up off the ground, perhaps 2 to 6 feet off the ground, the height is important, the air at ground level does not circulate enough for this mushroom. A porch railing can work perfectly.
Just mist the hole with a fine spray of clean drinking quality water every time you pass by, hopefully 3x a day or more.
Depending on a HUGE number of variables your Bears Head Tooth mushroom should start to sprout in 2 to 4 weeks. Continue for another 2 to 3 weeks until the top of your mushroom turns just slightly brown, this is dieback and is normal for the mushroom species. To harvest carefully twist the mushroom in a circle and remove.
Enjoy! We recommend dry frying the mushrooms just with a little water and salt on high heat, cook until stuck to pan, then add water to release, repeat process 2x then remove from heat and serve directly with cheese and crackers.
Round 2
When you harvest the first mushroom, you can “clean-up” the jar and get more. Take the lid off and check the substrate, if any moulds or stinky spots are there, scoop them out with a spoon, then rinse out the top with a sink sprayer, discarding the rinse water. carefully stab a butter knife in the center of the remaining substrate down about half way. Add sterile drinking water to the top and see that it flows down into the substrate and even may come out the hole. Cleanup the lid as needed and place it back on the jar.
Thats it, the process can be repeated 3 times or so, YOUR total fresh mushrooms should come up to 1/3# or so.
