OneEarth Mushrooms

06/05/2022

Golden oysters are really picking up their output! I think I've finally got my fruiting room dialed in. Looking forward to black pearl oysters, pinks and blues soon!

02/05/2022

One of my cute little babies.

This is a mushroom just starting to poke out of the column.

I've been going through a lot of trial and error experimentation to nail down my process for the fruiting tent. The first flush was mediocre; insufficient fresh air made the fruiting bodies small and wilted. I've switched to using a 5 min on / 10 min off cycle for the fans (as opposed to using a CO2 controller). Looking forward to seeing how the second flush turns out!

There are some king oyster mushrooms right behind this generation; hoping to see those fruiting soon.

18/04/2022

First flush of golden oysters coming in strong!

29/03/2022

My first foray into non-sterile, larger scale cultivation seems to be going alright. These columns are 4 days post-inoculation and seem to be colonizing well with no significant competing organisms.

I'm using the cold-water, high pH method of pasteurization, as opposed to the energy intensive heat sterilization I've used in the past. Yes, this method does use a lot of water (35 gals for about 15 lbs of substrate), but seems to be much more sensible than trying to sterilize this amount of substrate.

These columns are golden oyster on 100% straw. Tomorrow, I'll be preparing columns of king oysters on a mixture of straw and h**p, hoping to find more ways to incorporate the discards of other processes into new material for the mushrooms.

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28/03/2022

This ol' tree was completely covered. Im enjoying learning more about the mushrooms of the New England area...this photo was taken on a hike in the woods of Massachusetts over the weekend.

23/03/2022

One Earth Mushroom Farm just inoculated their first batch! Looking forward to some blue oysters in 6ish weeks.

I've decided to name each batch based on what's happening in the heavens...this first batch is named Void Moon, which feels fitting for starting this project. "Initiatives begun now may not amount to much or they can be slow/hard going"...this speaks to my mindset: I have a lot to learn; these first bags may not amount to much but offer me invaluable lessons.

I'll keep you posted!

23/03/2022

One Earth Mushroom Farm just inoculated their first batch! Looking forward to some blue oysters in 6ish weeks.

I've decided to name each batch based on what's happening in the heavens...this first batch is named Void Moon, which feels fitting for starting this project. "Initiatives begun now may not amount to much or they can be slow/hard going"...this speaks to my mindset: I have a lot to learn; these first bags may not amount to much but offer me invaluable lessons.

I'll keep you posted!

21/03/2022

Harvested this Birch Polypore (Fomitopsis betulina) a few days ago. She's a bit beyond her prime, but had no bug holes and was pretty clean. I'm drying her out to make tea later. Very much looking forward to connecting with the fungi around Bennington throughout the year!

16/12/2021

Join the Discord server!

https://discord.gg/9RCsGU7M

After taking a poll, the general consensus is to move over to Discord. This will allow us to be more free with what we post and discuss, and allow for increased privacy for the discussion members.

Some notes:
- I'm inexperienced with Discord, so please let me know if there are any settings that aren't working for you (i.e. if you aren't able to post, etc..)
- If you have experience with being a moderator, and feel called to help moderate the server...please send me a message.
- I'm going to leave this FB group up for a few weeks while we migrate over to the Discord server.
- The above link is valid until 23 Dec 2021. If you would like an invite after that, please let me know!

See you on Discord!

10/12/2021

I made a bunch of improvements to the substrate calculator and posted it on my new website, oneearthmushrooms.com.

Check in out and let me know how it works for you!

10/12/2021

The vastly improved substrate calculator is live on the new website, oneearthmushrooms.com

Check it out and let me know how it works for you!

09/12/2021

The coco coir / vermiculite calculator is now hosted on a website! Check out oneearthmushrooms.com to try it out.

I'll be adding more resources to the website as I have time. If you want to stay informed on what I have going on (not just with the website) there is a newsletter link in the "Support My Work" section of the website.

I'm not a web designer by any means, so please provide me feedback on the calculator and the website. Send all feedback to [email protected]

29/07/2021

Little lion is growing up!

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16/05/2021

Do you think this lion's mane grain spawn is fully colonized? 🤣

I let her sit in the fridge too long. The lioness wants out!

06/04/2021

Joined for a quick beach cleanup today. Pretty incredible to see the endless amount of plastics in all forms that wash up on our beaches; unfortunately it's only the tip of the iceberg. If we want to solve this problem, we're going to have to tackle it from all sides: minimize the amount of plastics used in industry and at home, prevent plastics from hitting the streets, highways and trails, catch the plastics in our streams, and remove the ghost nets, derelict vessels and garbage patches from our oceans.

Innovators, inventors, investors, and creative types: let's think big and scale up the solutions.

Citizen scientists and anyone who doesn't like plastic in their food: connect with organizations like or to see how you can contribute. Everyone has ideas, time, energy, and other resources they can contribute. Join the fight to keep our planet, your fellow humans, the plants and animals healthy and happy.

With love,
Jared

28/03/2021

Inoculation day!

25/03/2021

Haven't cultivated mushrooms in a long while. Figured I'd go big...had to bust out my brew kettle to boil this much grain.

30/08/2020

The contaminated pink oysters I threw into the compost pile are fruiting! While this isn't a huge surprise to me, I'm curious how well they'll actually grow. It's so hot where I live; I'm guessing the fruiting bodies will be pretty small.

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21/08/2020

Goodbye, my friend. This pink oyster had some unwelcomed guests. 😢 In to the garden you go!

14/08/2020

The king, doing his thing. King Oyster on hardwood... fruiting in a 1/2 gallon glass jar in my first attempt to eliminate the use of plastic fruiting bags.

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10/08/2020

Clouds of portobello mycelium on grain runoff. And that's a rock inside there 😂😂😂 I put it in to help break the mycelium up before I make syringes.

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03/08/2020

"Mother Watching Over Her Child"

Portobello liquid culture, and grain spawn from the same.

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03/08/2020

Portobello's have been really difficult for me to get started on grain. I suspect that they are a bit more sensitive to heat than other varieties, and the culture is losing a lot of life in shipping.

I ended up making a liquid culture from grain water, post boil. Added 1 part water and pressure cooked for 10 mins. Inoculated the liquid with a syringe of purchased culture. That seemed to work really well, creating a large mass of mycelium in the grain water culture.

After inoculating 5 quarts of grain three days ago, I'm seeing the first signs of life! This is my fourth attempt to start portobello spawn...I've never had this much trouble before. Really happy to have overcome this, and I can't wait to get the grain into a fruiting substrate.

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01/07/2020

Soooo...the enoki is loving the lacto ferment corn! I thought this was a failed experiment when blue oyster L.C. failed to colonize, so I threw some enoki grain at it and it's taking off! I can't claim this to be "100% pressure cooker-free" because I had used a P.C. for the enkoi donor spawn, but this is proving that the lactic acid fermented corn will work as a grain spawn, it just takes time and patience.

25/06/2020

Second flush from the pink oyster block. I harvested these a little late, probably should have picked yesterday as they got a little pale over night and started dropping spores. Hopefully still tasty though!

16/06/2020

is looking forward to your reopening!

15/06/2020

Harvested the pink oysters today! Definitely giving them more O2 for the second flush, they grew a little funny because I starved her of oxygen. Still pretty though!

10/06/2020

10/06/2020

She wasn't getting enough fresh air and tried to imitate a coral! The Lions Mane is still growing great, but I've cut in a lot more fresh air. Hopefully it helps.

09/06/2020

Well, you aren't the prettiest mushrooms on the block...yet, but you'll get there. Welcome to the world, Pink Oyster.

08/06/2020

This lions mane is getting more majestic by the day!

06/06/2020

Thanks for checking out the page! I'd love for this to be a place where we can all share ideas, photos and banter about our mushroom projects. I post a lot of videos to YouTube, but the ability for us to collaborate there is limited. Feel free to post pics, videos, questions, whatever you want here! The only think I ask is that if you're going to post about mushrooms that aren't currently legal, you withhold the species or mention of illegal activities. Mush love and stay beautiful, you amazing people!

05/06/2020

Calculate the perfect amount of hardwood substrate for whatever random jar or fruiting vessel you plan to use with this simple to use calculator, download it for free in the File Sharing group!

Link to the File Sharing group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/OneEarthMushroomsFileSharing/

04/06/2020

200 Subscribers on YouTube?!?!?! No way, I don't believe it! Thank you so much everyone, I love you, beautiful people.

Cool substrate calculator video dropping in the morning (4am HST), the calculator is already available in the File Sharing Group (button just below the banner).

Mush Love, and have a beautiful day!

04/06/2020

**GIVEAWAY** Want to know a little bit more about the basics of the mushroom lifecycle? Head over to my YouTube channel to check out the video, and enter to win the original illustration and my show notes!

https://youtu.be/SnwpG6-AxAM

03/06/2020

Contamination, or pins? I'll give you a hint, the variety is a strain of oyster....

02/06/2020