May 2025: The Begining
Smoky Mountain Myco got its humble start with little more than a bucket, some sawdust, and a pressure cooker. Since then, we have upgraded to include two large scale mixers, an autoclave, built a proper lab complete with a flow hood and genetics library, built an indoor fruiting chamber with a future chamber started (512 cubic feet each), and are a weekly staple at our local Farmers Market.
Working from the Land
Combining hardwood shavings from lumber harvested on our property and pristine mountain water, our mushrooms showcase our amazing environment and our farm’s efforts. While most of our production is [currently] indoors, we are working toward major outdoor expansion by inoculating logs with our best performing mushrooms, namely Shiitake, Grey Oyster and Blue Oyster.
In addition to gourmets, we are working toward medicinal mushroom production – leading the way is the Turkey Tail mushroom which has pronounced [positive] effects on the immune system and is shown to have anti-cancer properties as well.
Supplementing our growing efforts, we regularly explore our land foraging mushrooms to bring to market. In North Carolina, there are (16) wild foraged mushrooms that may be sold. So far we’ve gotten nine of them on our land.
Work in Progress
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