Learn. Grow. Innovate.
At Fungi Foundry, we believe in empowering cultivators at every level — whether you're just starting out or pushing the limits of advanced techniques. Explore our step-by-step guides and start your mycological journey today.
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Learn the basics of fungi, tools, and safe practices.
Understanding fungi life cycles
Basic Equipment you’ll need for success
Setting up a simple home lab or grow space
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A step-by-step guide to creating clean, nutrient-rich liquid cultures.
Supplies you’ll need (including recipes)
Preparing and sterilizing the culture medium
Inoculating with spores, agar, or clone tissue
Storing and maintaining your liquid cultures
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Maximize your liquid culture’s potential across different growing environments.
Inoculating grain spawn
Outdoor beds and log inoculations
Seasons considerations and best practices for each environment.
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Turn your liquid culture into thriving grain spawn.
Preparing brown rice, millet, or other grains
Sterilization using an Instant Pot or other pressure cookers
Inoculation techniques and colonization monitoring
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Create living dowels for outdoor mushroom cultivation.
Preparing dowels for inoculation
Using liquid culture for plug spawn
Inoculating stumps, logs, and outdoor substrates
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Master the art of clean mycelium isolation and cloning
Easy recipes for different types of agar
Pouring sterile plates without contamination
Inoculating with spores, cultures, or clones
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Affordable sterilization solutions for the home cultivator.
Setting up jars, grain bags, or media inside an Instant Pot
Pressure, timing, and moisture considerations
When an Instant Pot works, and when you might need an autoclave