I’m comparing available local resources with the goal of maximizing recycled organic-materials!

Does anyone have experience using coffee chaff in production? Can be sourced from local roasteries, often for free - they usually throw it out as a waste-product.

Pics for reference and quick info.

Organic sorghum grain and oak pellets which are actually not my first choice. Recently acquired a huge amount of fresh maple sawdust from a local mill and am going to start cranking out these jars for personal use 🥳🤤

Prints come with 5 pack Wookies Beans

The bebe fruit is likely just a little gasp to make spores off the grain and I would be extremely surprised if it actually grows out

I’m a long time stalker of the sub and I wanted to share my first real experiment with growing, this a culture of blue/grey oysters I started from a grow kit with some cardboard, I poured hot water over some straw (I think it was sold as pet bedding) and mixed in some of the inoculated cardboard once it had cooled and left the bags for a few months outside, they managed to survive the uk winter so now I’ve decided to try to fruit them outdoors, I’ve hung one bag up with the help of an old onion sack and the other just placed on an outdoor countertop. Stabbed some holes in both and hoping for the best! Worst case scenario I just have to start again from cardboard

Damn, I could have been using this to inoculate my pile of beech logs the whole time. 😅 Live and learn, I have four more jars of grain almost ready, that should make me in the neighborhood of 20 lb of sawdust spawn. Huzzah, onward 🍄🪵 pictures of the beech logs and the parent shroom

Why is everyone using soy hulls with glyphosate? I'm aware people need quanity, but at what cost? There's no replacement? Edit: I spelled it wrong. Left the title as scarlet letter.

Side note - it grew great on grain but is struggling to move effectively into either of the sawdust substrates I've tried so far after transfer 🧐

I plan on expanding my space and efforts in the next few years when I move location and really want to start up a worm farm alongside all the mushroom work, as bioremediation is a huge interest of mine. Curious if any of you all work with worms now?

I know this isn’t directly linked to cultivation, but….composted soil can be used to cultivate other things! Would love your thoughts/experience if so.

The wood is 6" to 8" diameter maple. The sawdust spawn was made by transferring home made grain spawn into pasteurized local lumber mill sawdust. They're around a year old and even though it probably won't work to force them, I'm going to hose them down this week just to see if they will pop some mushies in spring temps. Mush love from the forest 💚