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Magnificent Mushrooms is a family business located outside of Paoli IN. Our goal is to expose and educate backyard gardeners, large scale farmers and mushroom enthusiasts in the use of mushrooms to grow food and heal our planet. Magnificent Mushrooms can provide you with the spawn, logs, consultations, and know-how to grow gourmet mushrooms for business or pleasure.
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Workshop Facilitation
Magnificent Mushrooms’ primary goal is to educate. We have no’t accumulated all of this knowledge just to keep it to ourselves. To date, we have worked with community gardens, schools, parks, co-ops, churches and businesses to develop informational, hands on workshops where participants learn not only the cultivation and collection of mushrooms, but the culture of mushrooms. if you are interested in sponsoring one or more of our educational workshops: "“Mushroom Cultivation 101”", "“Wild Identification Walk”", "“Using Mushrooms to Detoxify and Create Soil”" and “"Ethno-mycology; A History of Mushrooms and Mankind”".
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS
CULTURES are Petri dishes of pure mushroom mycelium. These are used to create grain masters which can then inoculate up to 100 more bags of grain spawn, or can inoculate fruiting substrate. With the right knowledge, a culture can be expanded and used for decades.
INDOOR GROW KITS will fruit indoors, providing the appropriate environment is maintained. This is often room temperature for many species. Watered two or three times daily, these kits will produce a surprising amount of gourmet mushrooms, right in your kitchen window. Check Species Guide for fruiting temperatures.
PLUG SPAWN is used to inoculate logs. Generally, 15-25 plugs can inoculate a 3x6 hardwood log, producing fruitings for up to five years.
GRAIN SPAWN is used to inoculate more grain or the bulk fruiting substrate, such as straw for oyster mushroom production.
SAWDUST SPAWN is used to inoculate beds of woodchips, or logs, using what is known as the wedge technique, whereby wedges are cut into logs, sawdust spawn is packed in the cut faces and the wedges are nailed back in place.
PRE-INOCULATED LOGS - Save yourself the trouble of finding or even inoculating fresh cut logs. For a little more, Magnificent Mushrooms will drill and inoculate logs with your choice of spawn. Simply put them in a shady spot in your yard, and wait. In six to twelve months from inoculation you should start to see fruitings that can last for years.
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It is our absolute goal to offer the highest quality mushroom spawn. As measure of this endeavor, we are constantly cloning and culturing new strains. Feel free to ask us any questions regarding our spawn and our strain selection.
So that our customers receive the highest quality product, we custom grow each order so please expect a minimum of two-weeks for your order to be ready. This is to ensure fresh viable spawn for your mushroom cultivation.
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If you live in the Kentuckiana area, we deliver to Fresh Start Grower's Supply at 1007 East Jefferson Street, Louisville, KY 40207. You may pick up your product here for no additional charge in order to save shipping costs.
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When incorporated into the garden, Elm Oysters not only provide edible mushrooms, but increase productivity in many garden vegetables. With their nutty flavor and firm texture, they are a favorite culinary choice.
Also known as "Velvet Foot", this mushroom is the second most consumed in the Orient after shiitake. When grown outdoors this prolific mushroom has an orange/yellow cap with a fuzzy brown stem, hence the common name. In the grow room the stems that elongate the cap remain tight and the overall color is white. This mushroom is an excellent edible, but requires confidence with identification when cultivated outdoors.
Perhaps the most peculiar of the gourmet mushrooms, its white ice sickle like spore surface and its inner flesh are reminiscent of crab meat, especially cooked with butter and garlic.
Also known as 'Hen of the Woods', it is enjoyed not only for its bountiful fruitings, but for its immune boosting properties as well. This mushroom has several unique compounds that help to explain why people of the Orient dance upon its discovery.
The quickest and easiest to grow, this mushroom is a wonderful addition to any meal. Abundant in nature, this mushroom produces prolific fruitings.
Heralded in the Far East as the 'Herb of Immortality', this mushroom is an excellent addition to tea.
This variety is a composters mushroom. Endemic to compost piles and nitrogen rich soils, this mushroom is excellent when picked immediately upon fruiting. Quickly decomposing, these mushrooms can store for 3-4 days refrigerated if harvested quickly. These mushrooms, light and delectable will help make your trips to the compost more enjoyable.
Shiitake is the most well known gourmet mushroom. Its name means ‘oak mushroom’. With a nutty flavor and firm flesh, it has become a favorite of mycophiles. Spring cut oak logs produce high quality log grown shiitakes right in your back yard.
This mushroom is traditionally made into a tea, as with Reishi.
Also known as "King Stropharia" this is a giant of the mushroom world. A companion of most garden vegetables, when planted alongside cruciferous vegetables it has been shown to double yields. Nutty in flavor and meaty in texture, an individual mushroom could weigh as much as five pounds! Great for the garden and the grill.
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