Fungi: Morel cultivation – when most hear this 2 mushroom comes up. Yeah that one which I don’t study and the other big guy. The morel mushroom.
Morel cultivation has been a bumpy road for the industry. The Chinese developed an outdoor method. The Danish perfected on an existing method. And I am forging a whole new method.
First notes that it could be done date back to the 80’s. But those methods wouldn’t usher in a morel industry or worldwide methods like we have shiitake.
Fungi cultivation in labs is actually technically difficult at first. Certain fungi strains like shiitake and maitake have their major difficulties.
We’re likely the first to grow morels on a Petri dish which we’ve designed to test other strains. We’ve now identified 2 strains that will come indoors. This will aid in studying species variance for speed and ideally yield one day. Fungi even in the same family like shiitake have great fruiting differences, harvest quality, and yield.
We’re now testing morel at scale which has changed some of the rules we had a small scale. It’s been a journey and continues to be one – all with the focus on fruiting morels at scale for the market.