Montana Mushrooms

Our budding mushroom farmer had success with his Shiitake grow kit!

Mushrooms are a great natural source of vitamin D. In Paul Stamets book “Mycelium Running”, he talks about the difference exposure to sunlight can have on the amount of vitamin D available. The level of vitamin D in shiitake mushrooms went from 110 IU  to 21,400 IU per 100g by drying outside in the sunlight, [...]

An inspiring story about a young mushroom farmer named David Falkowski, who was asked the question… “Why mushrooms? I realized that mushrooms are a key component in the cycling of organic matter. Through mushroom cultivation not only do you create humus, or organically rich soil, the basis of soil, but also, as a bonus, we [...]

I just got to check out the shiitake growing kit from Fungi Perfecti. This was an indoor growing kit and looked like it is ready to go. http://fungi.com/kits/indoor.html Some lucky guy in my family got it for his birthday! He is a budding mushroom farmer so it was a great gift. I will keep us [...]

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 [...]