Midway Mushrooms
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Midway Mushrooms is a small indoor farm specializing in gourmet mushroom production. Located in Sewanee, Tennessee, we cultivate within a climate-controlled indoor setup and produce a variety of mushrooms on locally sourced hardwood sawdust. Part of what we love bringing to local mycophiles is an extremely wide variety of high-quality, meticulously cultivated mushrooms: In addition to the multiple genetic lines of blue oyster, shiitake, and lion's mane mushrooms that comprise our biggest harvests, we offer pink oyster, golden oyster, king trumpet, pioppino, and reishi in our rotation. We also are dedicated foragers, meaning we bring to market lots of chanterelles, chicken of the woods, maitake, and wild-harvest oysters; we like to keep things interesting as the seasons change and bring new species.
We're proud of the comparatively low environmental impact that results from our particular cultivation methodology. At a climate-controlled indoor facility, our mycophile growers sterilize nutritionally enhanced sawdust substrate. We then inoculate this tasty mushroom food with selected mycelium lines before incubation and fruiting under parameters tweaked for healthy, tasty mushroom growth!
Midway Mushrooms is a certified Produce Safety Alliance farm. Our gourmet mushrooms are grown from recycled agricultural and forestry byproducts, meaning the input for these nutritionally rich gourmet mushies consists essentially of leftovers. The overall production process is quite rapid, with harvests taking place only weeks after inoculation, meaning energy inputs are comparatively low. Moreover, when all is said and done and we've harvested two to three mushroom flushes off a given block, the net result is the perfect nutrient-dense parent material for compost, which we further recycle for plant growth.
The Midway Mushrooms team consists of three avid mushroom hunters who bonded initially over seasonal foraging missions. We like surprise lion's mane discoveries, sustained heavy rainfall, and long walks to our favorite Cantharellus patch. Our diverse backgrounds in mushroom farming, biology, and systems design serve as a skeleton for our endless tinkering with new growth techniques and mushroom varieties.
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