Our Roots
Our mushrooms grow from the consumption of forest waste harvested from properties in Quincy.
Our ingredients are few:
Wood Chips generated from forest thinning (Douglas Fir, White Fir, Ponderosa Pine and occasionally Black Oak);
Grain Spawn (grains such as rye or millet that mushroom mycelium has grown through);
Water.
Our outputs are powerful:
Fresh, locally grown Mushrooms.
Nutrient rich soil for farming or to be spread back into the forests we steward.
The process involves:
Generating Wood Waste (usually by harvesting fire wood or wood for building and chipping the limbs and treetops);
Processing into substrate ready for inoculation;
Mixing the substrate with grain spawn;
Incubating mixtures in temperature controlled environment;
Fruiting in humidity controlled environment;
Harvesting & delivering to local markets;
Composting the decomposed wood waste to be returned to the forest.
Interested in learning more?:
Meet us at the Quincy Farmers Market every second Wednesday of the month at Rich Bar, from 4pm - 7pm.
