{"id":140,"date":"2025-10-06T13:30:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smokymountainmyco.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2025-10-06T13:30:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:30:53","slug":"how-do-we-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smokymountainmyco.com\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"How do we do it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Most commonly folks ask us how to cook our fine mushrooms, but I wanted to take a second and tell you how we farm mushrooms for the marketplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few years back we harvested and milled quite a few mature trees on the property, oaks and poplars to be precise. Now these slabs are dry enough for woodworking projects and are being cut and planed, making quite a mess. Fortunately, we have a cyclone dust collector in the shop which allows us to recoup said material. With various pieces of [large] equipment, we hydrate, supplement and sterilize the hardwood shavings to create the perfect fungi food! (We really think this is the secret to our success, and why our mushrooms grow to be giants.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But how do we grow<\/em> mushrooms?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Let’s skip ahead just a little – the sawdust bags, known as substrate, get inoculated with homemade myceliated<\/em><\/strong><\/a> grain. Once the bags are ready, they get moved into the fruiting chamber. You’ll see in the pictures below more or less how the process moves along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So that’s it?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The short answer is yes<\/em>. The long answer is no<\/em>. In the end, just know we handle every step along the way with care and commitment – bringing to market only the finest gourmet mushrooms for you and your family (or customers) to enjoy. Now the question is: how are you going to cook them?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Most commonly folks ask us how to cook our fine mushrooms, but I wanted to take a second and tell you how we farm mushrooms for the marketplace. A few years back we harvested and milled quite a few mature trees on the property, oaks and poplars to be precise. Now these slabs are dry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[13,10,12],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farm-news","tag-about","tag-gourmet-mushrooms","tag-mushroom-farm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.smokymountainmyco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/grey-o-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountainmyco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountainmyco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountainmyco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountainmyco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountainmyco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountainmyco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountainmyco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountainmyco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountainmyco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountainmyco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountainmyco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}