Our Process
Whether we are cultivating our mushroom spawns, preparing our substrate or growing mushrooms,
it is essential that we don't allow any unwanted visitors to grow in our environment.
To avoid contaminations, we take strong measures to ensure the whole process remains sterile.
Laboratory
All of our mushrooms come from humble, mycelial beginnings, with just a little bit of culture in a petri-dish.
All lab-work is done in front of our Laminar flow hood to circulate 99.99% sterile air over our work space.
We also use Isopropyl alcohol spray over any equipment used, and a sterilizing flame for our scalpel before transferring our Mycelium between agar cultures or grain spawn.
Grain Spawn
Rye and oat grain are used to further grow out our mycelium.
Every grain is subject to 90 minutes in our pressure cookers at 15 psi, before heading into our lab to be inoculated with mycelium.
Our grain spawn is then broken up and transferred into our substrate blocks.
Substrate blocks
Our substrate is made with a combination of Australian wood pellets and soybean hulls, which is blended with a 50% water content.
Once mixed, we fill each bag by hand.
Steriliser barrels
With our substrate bags mixed and ready, each bag is placed in our custom built sterilizer barrels, which are kept between 90 - 95 degrees Celsius for 20 hours.
This is to ensure any contaminants are killed off, to give our mushrooms the best possible start.
Fruiting room
Our fruiting room emulates the ideal growing conditions for our mushrooms to thrive.
It features a limited light source to mimic the forest floor beds, as well as the perfect humidity and CO2 levels.
As part of our sterility process, we deep clean the fruiting room every week.