Mushrooms are sooo underrated by us all, and so little understood. These fruits of the earth are utter miracles, and with science and medicine finding more about them all the time, I think we should all make an effort to get to know them! I'm certainly glad I started this journey to grow my own mushrooms - and I feel my journey is just beginning!

If you have been following my last few posts on growing mushrooms in buckets, you'll know I chose to go down the path of a fruiting chamber made of a small hobby greenhouse. It's taken a while to put it together and it's not quite done, because I'm waiting on 12V fans for proper air distrubution, but going in there as often as I can to open the door and allow some fresh air in seems to have worked super well.

The weather has been quite warm and humid of late so that's helped them on a bit - but these tan oyster mushrooms have a temperature range of 10 to 26 degrees and my wifi thermometer tells me it's averaged 20 degrees inside the chamber (the humidifier cools it down a little).

I'll have to figure out what mushrooms to grow over Easter as the temperature will drop considerably here, and I guess I"ll have to look into maybe a heating mat or something as it gets quite cold in the spare room.

But gosh, I did it! I grew mushrooms! And I've learnt so much about mycellium and how it all works, and it's so amazing. Did you know mushrooms eat their way through all kinds of things, and that mushrooms were the first thing to appear in the radioactive soil of Chernobyl, eating their way through waste? Mushrooms have the potential not only to feed us, but to clean the earth that we screw over. How amazing is that?

I have soooo many plans for growing lots of mushrooms and making mushrooms salt, pickled mushrooms, dried mushrooms, mushroom jerky, mushroom ferments - I'm only jsut getting started, baby!

I'm super proud of myself for achieving this grow. It may have seemed a complicated process but I think now I'm through the hurdle of understanding how mushrooms grow and what they need, and the complication of the fruiting chamber set up, now it should be a lot easier and simpler.