Growing mushrooms in south Louisiana.

We’ve done it in south MS a few times with good results. You need to use seasoned white oak with a decent amount of sapwood, the heartwood isn’t going to produce and will be what’s left after it’s done flushing. Keep them in a shady place. A flush is triggered by contact with cold water, either rain in winter or flooding.

We grow from starter bags in a tent with a humidifier.

Best damn mushrooms I’ve ever eaten. Like a whole different ballgame. I can’t believe the garbage I used to buy at the grocery stores.

$20-30 a bag for lions mane/etc but you get 3ish harvests.

Lions mane tastes like crabmeat.

Takes a few weeks.

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To say he's passionate about it is an understatement.

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that goes for every mushroom grower and mycologist I’ve ever met. There’s something about fungi…and I want to know more about what they know

James Frosch and his wife sell at the Hammond farmers market (family fungi). They are great people and good friends and will also help anyone who asks

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needing to isolate the logs from the ground so competing fungus don’t take over.

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I went to a "class" on mushroom growing put on by some hippies that lived in a bus on the outskirts of Lafayette. I never tried it but I remember him saying to only use logs that were somewhat "fresh" since fungus will take hold of dead wood pretty quick and will compete with your spores.

It was an eclectic group of folks. Someone brought homemade kombucha and they started passing the bottle around. When it came to be my turn for a swig I said "uhh, not for me" shite already looked gross before the bottle was opened, much less before a bunch of dreads wearing people started backwashing into it.