Live Online Class with the Light Cellar!
Get the best of both worlds! Tara, from Fungi Akuafo, will teach you how to fruit from a mushroom grow kit. Malcolm, from the LIght Cellar, will teach you about the medicinal uses of the mushrooms you will grow! One grow kit is included in the registration. Class...
World Soil Day
December 5, 2020 is World Soil Day! This year’s theme ‘keep soil alive, protect soil biodiversity’ aims to raise awareness of the importance of sustaining healthy ecosystems and human-well being’ by encouraging people to engage in proactively improving soil health to...
Our name
You might be wondering why the name Fungi Akuafo? That is a little nod to the fungi 'Queendom' and our sister farm, 'Akesi Farms'. Many people ask us if 'Akuafo' is Japanese but it is actually Fante, one of the Akan languages spoken in Ghana where Meghan's husband,...
Thriving Mushrooms Summit
Check out this free mushroom summit starting tomorrow! Lots of great speakers. https://www.farmsummits.com/ If you are thinking about growing mushrooms or have been for a while, there is a talk for everyone! (We are promoting this event just because we think it's a...
Straw 2020!
Straw! 2020 was a better year for grain harvests than the super wet 2019... We purchased some fantastic wheat straw for mushroom growing and some oat straw for garden mulch usage. This straw is from an organic grain farm near Mayerthorpe, AB. Sometimes we don't get...
The new lab building
We have power! Almost this entire panel is dedicated to the new lab and incubation space... We did a lot more planning this time as we have a better idea of what we need. We are also building a very large root cellar that will have a dedicated space for spawn. It...
The new lab
The new lab! The workbench is in, the flow hoods installed, and the fridges in place. It should be a lot easier to keep this space clean! The air is filtered and along with the flow hoods, it should ensure very low contamination rates and higher quality spawn. ...
The blue room
The "blue room" is the new incubation space. Lots more room! Although we are already wondering if there is enough shelving space. 😉 We used to be able to incubation about 200 bags at one time. We should be able to have at least 3 times that now. The incubation...
The chute…
The chute! The "old lab" is now the sterilization area... All the sterilizers are in there and that's where we now prepare the grain and sawdust bags. To get them to the "new lab", we built a chute! Just started using it this week. So much fun... We also...
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