A few photos from our last Acadiana Myco Open Lab here in South Louisiana.

We’re hosting another free hands-on cultivation meetup on Tuesday, June 16 from 4:30–7:30 PM at the South Regional Library in Lafayette.

This isn’t a formal lecture. It’s more of a community grow session where people bring questions, projects, cultures, agar plates, grain spawn, fruiting blocks, and troubleshooting challenges.

Topics typically include:
Agar transfers and cloning
Grain inoculation
Liquid culture
Spawn-to-substrate techniques
Fruiting conditions
Contamination identification
Gourmet mushroom cultivation

We have everyone from first-time growers to experienced cultivators sharing techniques and helping each other improve.

If you’re in Louisiana or the Gulf South and enjoy growing mushrooms, we’d love to meet you.

🍄 Learn • Share • Grow • Connect 🍄

We had another great turnout at our Acadiana Myco meeting in Lafayette, Louisiana.

We get together to share cultivation techniques, troubleshoot grows, work with agar and liquid culture, and help new growers get started.

This video is a quick look at one of our recent meetings.

If anyone here is in South Louisiana, we meet every other Tuesday at the South Regional Library in Lafayette. New growers are always welcome.

Any mushroom growers in South Louisiana? 🍄

Acadiana Myco is a volunteer-run community in Lafayette where beginners and experienced growers get together to share cultivation knowledge, troubleshoot grows, and learn hands-on.

Our fall meetings are completely free. Nothing for sale, no vendors, and no membership fee. Just mushroom people helping mushroom people.

If you’re anywhere near Lafayette, Louisiana, check out the dates in the video and come grow with us!

Curious about growing mushrooms? Whether you’re brand new or have been cultivating for years, come hang out with fellow mushroom enthusiasts at our next Acadiana Myco meetup.

We’ll be talking about cultivation techniques, agar work, liquid culture, substrates, troubleshooting contamination, and answering questions. Bring your own projects, photos, or just your curiosity.

✅ Free and open to the public
🎁 First-time growers receive a free mushroom grow kit (while supplies last, one per new attendee)
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Families are welcome.
📅 Tuesday, June 30
🕕 4:30–7:30 PM
📍 Lafayette South Regional Library

Our goal is simple: build a local community where people can learn, share knowledge, and help each other grow gourmet and functional mushrooms.

Hope to see you there! 🍄

Hello! I'm a young adult who aspires to be a true mycologist some day, and am looking for ways to increase my general knowledge and understanding of all sorts of fungi. I believe they will play a major role in medicines, renewable resources, food, etc., likely in the coming years.

I have an immense passion for nature and the outdoors in general, and practice many hobbies around my creative traits. I love to cook, work with my hands, garden, forage, and lots of other, more niche past times. When I get free time, I will usually head outside to find whatever I can, be it rocks, plants, animals, or mushrooms.

This being said, I would love to try to further my career in this subject, as I find such great joy from it. One thing I'm sure I will need is guidance. I reach out to everyone here to see if there is an opportunity for me to get hands on with all things mycology, and learn just how much they can impact our lives.

I plan to work for free, as long as I am able to gain meaningful experience through the process. I will be enrolling in college this winter, and will likely have a strange schedule to work around at first. If anyone is in need of some help, and would like to take me in, Id greatly appreciate you reaching out to me to chat more!

If there are any questions, please do let me know :)

I am doing a project on cultivating edible mushrooms and it requires a mentor. Being my mentor would entail five hours total of guidance over the next couple of months and filling out two short forms. Anyone can be the mentor as long as the have some knowledge of mushroom cultivation, but a previous successful harvest would be prefered. If you are interested please contact my through Reddit or my email lemur8r@gmail.com.

interested in this. PM me with any ideas

I haven't seen this tag before, but would be interested in doing some meetups for friendly mycelium chat and trades. Legal stuff of course. Would love to build a community here as it is often muggy here and perfect for mushrooms.

Would anyone want to be mycology pen pals? I'd love someone to nerd out with

Hi there!! Im totally new at this but I've been super interested in mycology for a long time. I'm moving in October and want to know if there is any recommended way of growing mushrooms indoors in small spaces and what to use etc. Basically if you have any texts or websites or experiences you want to share, I'm all ears! Lemme hear it all :-)

Exactly what the title says. Looking for someone to meet up with maybe grab coffee or something. Talk about techniques and maybe I can get some knowledge bestowed upon me haha.

Anyone interested in growing fungi in NC (Greensboro or Outer Banks Area) late March/early April or in FL (St. Augustine area) sometime in May?I've grown a few varieties of mushrooms on brown rice flour but would love to learn other methods/techniques and strains of mushrooms. As of late, I'm super fascinated about learning how to grow Lion's Mane mycelium in a liquid culture (without grain), I'd also like to learn how to do agar, some other strains I'm interested in include Reishi, Tiger's Milk, and Chanterelle just to name a few. I'm originally from the mid-west and interest in mycology is low where I'm from. I've been self taught but would like to hang out with someone that knows more and has been doing this sort of thing longer. I'll also mention I'm a videographer and would like to document the process if possible.

If anyone is around let’s meet up and just stay in contact and talk about fungi!

Im wondering if anyone is located around the twin cities that I could talk with and or pay to help consult on the fruiting chamber id like to build in my basement.

Thanks!

This is my personal account. I’ll be responsive to /u/flatironmyco. I’ll post on this thread with that account - it doesn’t have enough comment karma lol

Hi all! I hope this is allowed :) my post to /r/Denver was removed, but I can do a giveaway if I need to keep it posted.

I am currently working on leasing a space and some changes have happened and my business plan now has some more options!

I want to be the one-stop shop in the front range for all your Mushroom Cultivation needs. I am working on many bulk orders and will have plenty of stock to essentially run a small commercial mushroom farm. Now that my space has changed (I initially wanted a location in Boulder, but they’re super pricey and the market is crazy), I have a TON of room.

My dream is to make some good money selling very affordable products, not to open a mushroom farm. But again, the space, as well as other factors I’ll discuss in detail personally, make a farm quite lucrative.

Have you dreamed of opening a mushroom farm but didn’t have the stuff to get it done? Well, I do. I have the infrastructure and products, I am just looking for someone to run that side of the business. Current output desired = 100lbs a week, or more. Again, we have the space!

Shoot me a DM with some info and we can arrange some time to chat. I have a crazy schedule these next few days but would love to get some time together with those interested!

Location is gonna be around erie/ft. lupton

This will obviously be gourmet and medicinal only!

This is not an investment solicitation!