Harvesting Cordyceps militaris with Mushroom Merchants a MycoSymbiotics CRTFD Farm!

[@matthewrabinowitz4083]

Watching this farm from behind the scenes feels like such a privilege and incredible opportunity. As I continue to grow my lab and cultivation spaces, I keep myself inspired by what MycoSymbiotics + friends Aare up to. It would be such a privilege to join a team and community like this in the future,

[@koltoncrane3099]

Anyways that’s a cool video and good looking mushrooms and tents. Pretty impressive setup you guys got.

[@kurt5490]

Wow. Right here in Central Pa. I've been feeding the spent cordyceps media to composting worms. Works great.

[@TheWormeryLLC]

do you pre compost them?

[@kurt5490]

@@TheWormeryLLC Kind of. I have an air pump blowing a continuous stream thru an air hose wrapped 2x around a brick with holes it in the bottom of a plastic trash can full of water. The water gets some of the leachate from my worm bins. This way the material is inoculated with microbes that are symbiotic with the worms. I usually put in the mushroom blocks that had secondary fermentation so they're soft and break up easily. & half a compressed coco coir block. This then gets drained thru fabric pots. After sitting for at least a weak it's not so damp & ready to be used as worm bedding to cap each tray off. I put it in a bin that I also gets the siftings from finished trays so live worms are going in it as well. This has proven to keep the process stabile and reliable. Oops. That's for mushroom blocks. The cordyceps media can go right in the trays. No need for precomposting.

[@TheWormeryLLC]

@@kurt5490 thank you do you have a youtube channel as well? would love to see your setup. I have a worm farm and compost mushroom substrate for a mushroom farmer

[@kurt5490]

@@TheWormeryLLC No KZbin channel. I'm in the middle of reorganizing my garage where I have my worms. Maybe Clint can make a video to upload on Will's channel.

[@TheWormeryLLC]

@@kurt5490 I understand.. I worm farm out of my garage as well, organizing it has been on my to do list forever LOL, good luck

[@ValidPlacebo]

Love the work that you do man thanks for making this video. I heard of feeding cordyceps substrate to chickens before but after you mentioned it again in this video I've decided to do a deep dive into researching it 🤓

[@themyceliumnetwork]

I just cultivated & harvested my first three 11"X15" tubs, they are a wonderful fungi!! now to figure out how to make tinctures :) any helpful "how to" links are greatly appreciated!

[@AdrianFlores-rt9ry]

Dehydrate 2oz of cordyceps, powder, place into 8oz high proof ethanol (70-100%). Let sit for a month in mason jar, agitate gently daily. After the month strain and squeeze out all the alch then place the Marc (fruit body) into a liter of water and decoct (a nice simmer 160-180*F) for ATLEAST 2 hours you can do it for 24 hours if you want. Add a little water as needed then once your time is up and the decoction has half the original volume let cool then strain and add alcohol extract. This should 27oz of tincture, ~30% alch and 70% water double extract. Experiment! These are just ratios you can do 1oz of cordyceps if that’s all you got just adjust the recipe. This is kitchen version too you can get other stuff like spagyrics and heated alch extracts

[@AdrianFlores-rt9ry]

You could also do the same thing but In reverse where you make water extract let cool then add enough alch for the total volume to be atleast 30% alch and let sit for a month, then strain. If you do food grade glycerine add 10% more by volume

[@AdrianFlores-rt9ry]

Actually sorry do atleast everclear or 200proof for this recipe if you’re doing 70proof you need to adjust the water content to makeup for the water in the liquor

[@dertythegrower]

Awesome work 👍 respect

[@bffdcordyceps]

LET'S GROWWW!!!

[@dertythegrower]

Grow big or grow home 😎

[@davusmonceig7338]

Welcome to the ceremony

[@kittyfantastic7681]

I am trying to start a micro mushroom farm at the moment. I appreciate your videos so much. I am interested in getting certified with you. I am currently starting a cordy crop according to your process. Please wish me luck and if possible any info you think might help. Thank you.

[@cashofferorterms]

Nice bro! ✌️

[@dantefuego]

sick Puffco

[@CMZneu]

how do they prop up the bags on their sides to get enough space for the fruits?

[@MycoSymbiote]

we inflate the bags

[@CMZneu]

@@MycoSymbiote in front of the flow hood i imagine, i don't use comercial mushroom bags, it's kinda amazing they can get inflated while still providing enough air exchange.

[@NewbCoinNerd]

Feed the waste to earthworms

[@NativeEarthlingAI]

Cameraman needs to learn Audio Engineering

[@koltoncrane3099]

So I think it’s good to be better stewards, be more efficient and make a healthier product. But I think it’s absurd to want to label something as naturally grown. Everything is natural except for maybe lab grown fake meat that’s synthetic and an abomination. Look at the weed industry in Colorado. A report said the weed industry pollutes as much or slightly more then the entire mining sector if I remember it correctly. That’s not sustainable even if they’re using LED and efficient lights. Growing indoors uses as much energy as all the massive mines in Colorado combined. I was shocked. But then I read the pot zero farm by gypsum Colorado grows outdoors and by growing out doors it reduces pollution and energy by 80%. The other thing was growing in greenhouses people would produce carbon to make plants grow better. They’re basically saying tbr higher carbon levels is great for plants to grow. Anyways growing outside is much more sustainable long term energy and pollution wise. Even if you use 100% hydro energy growing outside is still better cause you’re using sun light that’s natural so you don’t have to mine up the earth to produce lights and other inputs. The other thing is how can you label something natural or organic when you’re basically inputting lab made ingredients assuming you’re using ingredients from South Koreans academic research studies. If you use chicken eggs or something okay that sounds natural but to say you use Lab made inputs that doesn’t sound sustainable or natural.