Mt Toaker
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So I've been working 2 days a week at a small oyster mushroom operation my buddy has been starting up for a couple months. I've been helping him out for the past month and we are getting it together to go to farmers markets this summer and maybe sell some to restaurants.
Here is a bit of the process.
First off we have our live spawn that we inoculate into jars of rye, my boss doesn't tell me exact measurements in the jars but from what I've gathered its VERY similar to that of some other varieties of mushrooms that people here may or may not be knowledgeable of. I have no pictures of the jars but they are like any other mycelium covered grain in a jar. After those jars are all colonized we then start the pasteurization process. This I do have pictures of.
Here is a bit of the process.
First off we have our live spawn that we inoculate into jars of rye, my boss doesn't tell me exact measurements in the jars but from what I've gathered its VERY similar to that of some other varieties of mushrooms that people here may or may not be knowledgeable of. I have no pictures of the jars but they are like any other mycelium covered grain in a jar. After those jars are all colonized we then start the pasteurization process. This I do have pictures of.