by meghan | Jul 14, 2020 | Mushroom Lab
It’s going to happen! We are tearing down the existing incubation room and building a new, larger one. The lab space will be moved to the new building and the existing lab space will be used as a larger preparation area. We moved the deep freezes out and need... 
by meghan | Mar 19, 2020 | Mushroom Lab
Wow, what a roller coaster of a couple of weeks! Thank you to everyone who has continued to order spawn from us. We appreciate it. Without constant orders, it is very difficult to keep our business running… Here are a few photos of our lab work! We are moving... 
by meghan | Feb 13, 2020 | Mushroom Lab
Anemometer! We can now more accurately measure the wind speed created by the flow hoods. Ideally you are looking for 0.47m/s for laminar flow. Next time we’ll have to find one that is more sensitive to measure to more than one decimal point… Super... 
by meghan | Feb 13, 2020 | Mushroom Lab
New toys in the lab! We purchased a machine to make our own distilled water. The autoclaves work best with distilled water and in the past, we purchased distilled water from the store. We hope this will eventually reduce the total energy used in creating distilled... 
by meghan | Dec 21, 2019 | Mushroom Lab
We received our latest order for lab supplies! We purchased more glass petri dishes… We always think that we have enough but it seems like the more petri’s we purchase the more ideas we come up with! We also had to buy a new used scalpel blade... 
by meghan | Dec 21, 2019 | Mushroom Lab
We’ve been spending most of our time in the lab lately. We are changing a few processes for how we store various species so include some of the new techniques learned at Mycelia! One day we’ll have a label printer and a nice database to track our...