The Mushroom Production Workshop was held today and went well. The morning sessions consisted of lecture presentations and in the afternoon the participants toured four separate stations - Preservation, Shroom Room and Compost Display, Mushroom Pod, and Packaging Cooler / Sales area. This project is funded by the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program and the USDA. Willow Mountain … [Read more...] about Mushroom production workshop held today
Bob Semyck had the Mushroom Pod delivered to the experiment station today. It is set up next to the existing Mushroom (Shroom) room. Production from the Pod and the cabinets in the Shroom Room will be compared. … [Read more...] about Mushroom pod delivered today
Emily and Trace, Missouri State summer student interns, and Randy Stout, field supervisor, set up the spent mushroom compost demonstration. This demo will be featured at the Mushroom Production Workshop to be held on Thursday, August 19, 2021. Different levels of compost, a by-product of the mushroom production, were put in each bucket ranging from 25% to 75%. Two plants of … [Read more...] about Setting up the spent mushroom compost demonstration
As part of the new project "Evaluation of Satellite Mushroom Prefabricated Pod Production", we are upgrading our existing Shroom Room where we raised mushrooms in 2019 and 2020 to have a more controlled environment. Bob Semyck of Willow Mountain Mushrooms designed the upgrade and he and his wife Wendy set up the portabella production cabinet on Friday, March 26, and installed … [Read more...] about Shroom room upgrade underway