![]() ![]() As both newbie growers and experienced pros like Carter will describe, one moment you have a bag filled with compressed waste (generally a mix of sawdust, wheat bran, ground corn cobs, etc), along with microscopic mycelium (kind of like mushroom “seeds”) hidden out of sight. “Mushrooms are mysterious and ephemeral,” Smallhold co-founder Andrew Carter told Schlanger for the Times. New York Times writer Zoë Schlanger, who also used Smallhold’s kits to home grow mushrooms, describes the process, when “pink oyster emerge as a cascade of salmon shingles,” as “more dramatic than could have imagined.” I want to try it,’” explains Chin, who picked up two pounds of mushrooms from the grower, along with her kit for growing blue oyster mushrooms. “I saw that and thought ‘Oh, this is really accessible, this is really easy. ![]() “During the pandemic, once I was home and had more time, I thought, ‘If I’m going to have a new indoor plant or grow my own things, why not work on mushrooms?’”Ĭhin purchased a kit from Smallhold, a New York City-based mushroom grower who pivoted to consumer sales and mushroom kits as their restaurant business slowed down in 2020. “I’ve been fascinated by mycology and mushrooms for a very long time,” says Sharon Chin, a business consultant from Flushing, New York. ![]() Interest in cooking and eating mushrooms had already been on an upward trajectory pre-pandemic. ![]()
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