Montana Mushrooms

When you find a good oyster mushroom source, you often find more than you can eat right away. Oysters don’t store or keep very long after picking, so you are better off to store some for those cold winter months. My favorite way to keep mushrooms around is to dry them. After eating my fill [...]

After successful harvest of oyster mushrooms grown on coffee grounds, the enjoyable job of  cooking and storing the harvest begins! The first thing to do was to eat them and see how they taste. Oysters change flavor a little when grown on different hosts, and I was curious how the coffee would affect it. The [...]

Was headed out camping and walked by my  coffee grounds bucket, and was shocked by what I saw! This what the project looked like in April. I had been around this area earlier in the week and didn’t notice anything! Beautiful luxurious Oyster Mushrooms! They are growing quite well, and I can’t wait to eat [...]

My outdoor Oyster mushroom is starting to flush after a long winter of waiting. I  now can call myself a mushroom cultivator! I knew the bed would be successful, but just like planting any perennial in the fall, you wait impatiently to watch it come to life in the spring. This bed was a combination [...]

Mushroom kits are a great way to get started growing mushrooms. Mushroom growing kits can be purchased online. They come in quite a variety of mushrooms. They produce fairly well and don’t take up much space. The different types usually involve sawdust and grain of some sort. The bag is complete with the growing substrate [...]