Mycelium disc
Scroll for instructions to grow your own mycelium network from our mycelium discs
Upcoming Events
Log Installation Community Workshop
July 15
Calthorpe Community Garden, 258-274 Gray's Inn Rd, London WC1X 8LH
Join us to drill some logs in the wild garden, learn how to do outdoor log cultivation with fungi and grow delicious mushrooms for the community.
Tickets FREE on Eventbrite.
Surrey Docks Farm: Community Fungi Cultivation Workshop
Aug 2
Rotherhithe St, South Wharf, London SE16 5ET
Learn about mycelium and how we can grow it in the city to discover solutions for a stronger climate, food system and community. Help us grow fungi to support the farm, creating an integrated outdoor fungi cultivation on the farm and take home your own mycelium, made by you.
Mycelium: Ancient Technology, Modern Contexts - GroundSchool x LMP
Sept 25
GroundSchool, Irongate Farm, Weston, Hitchin SG4 7DR
Immersive day course at GroundSchool. Join us on the farm to create, build and inoculate mycelium toolkits for the future to rejuvenate soil, improve food security and build climate resilience with mycelium - outdoors, low-tech and integrated into the farm and market garden.
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Step 1
Activate!
Soak the mycelium disc in cold water for 24 hours to activate it.
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Step 2
Place on cardboard
Place the disc on a sheet of damp cardboard and watch the mycelium start to grow. Keep it in a dark place and keep it hydrated by misting with water. Aim to keep it from drying out.
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Step 3
Feed your mycelium
Once hydrated, the mycelium is alive and hungry. Feed it cardboard, woodchips, twigs, straw, or kitchen waste like coffee grounds. Treat it like a pet that needs food, water and air!
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Step 4
Watch for mushrooms
After a few weeks of feeding, baby oyster mushrooms might start to appear. Keep them somewhere with indirect light and mist regularly with a spray bottle.
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Step 5
Keep growing
If kept well hydrated, the mycelium will continue to grow! Explore and experiment. Follow our Instagram for inspiration on what to do next.
FUNGI FOR FOOD, SOIL & FUTURE.
Our mycelium spawn discs are grown with native, edible fungi species.
They are experimental and intended for educational purposes - grown with repurposed materials to allow for low-tech exploration of mycelium in an accessible format.
If you wish to grow mushrooms, you need to learn how mycelium works first! Discs are NOT intended for fruiting edible mushrooms directly due to ink residues on some of the cardboard.
Current species on the discs:
Pale Oyster
Pleurotus pulmonarius - A native strain of a versatile and delicious edible oyster mushroom, super easy to grow.
Speckled Chestnut
Pholiota adiposa - the original chestnut mushroom found in forests and woodland around the UK.