Locomotoring

After 9 months, I tore down my miniature indoor oyster farm. I have harvested and dried several batches, enough to last me an year or more. Oysters are not my go to cooking mushrooms. They are beginner mushrooms for those who want to explore growing.

While I am far from being a seasoned mushroom grower, I now have the confidence to keep oyster mushrooms alive. Nine months ago, even that had seemed daunting. The growing kits are awfully expensive. And youTube university offers too many diverse options. In the end, I wanted something that would prove to be cost effective while being sustainable. In my wild mushroom foraging experience, cleaning the mushrooms had felt like a chore. So I had wanted a setup where the mushrooms would need minimal cleaning.

I went through a number of thought experiments before getting started. The eventual setup ended up being a steel table, topped by a clear plastic portable greenhouse (3 ft long, 2 ft wide and 3 ft tall), equipped with a 1.7L personal humidifier that turns on and off on a timer. The mushrooms were cultivated in four 2 gallon plastic buckets in straw media.