About
At Hazel Dell, we grow our mushrooms on hardwood sawdust and mimick indoors what happens in nature. The sawdust is mixed with water and wheat bran and packed into special mushroom growing bags. These bags are steam sterilized and innoculated with pure cultures of the mycelium for the variety of fungus we are trying to grow. The mycelium grows throughout the bag in a period of 4-13 weeks at about 70 degrees F.and binds the sawdust together.
The block of sawdust is then removed from the bag and placed in a humidified and well lit harvest room which is about 60 degrees F. and has plenty of fresh air. This change in environment stimulates the block of mycelim impregnated sawdust to produce mushrooms. It takes about 1-2 weeks in our harvest rooms for the mushrooms to develop and they are then picked and sorted by trained harvesters. Because we use pure cultures of mycelium, we only get the mushrooms we are trying to grow.
Think of the change from a dry summer to a wet fall and thats what our farm is. Except that it is all done indoors under sterile conditions which creates consistant year round production of our wonderful mushrooms.
You can buy our wonderful mushrooms at farmer’s markets and at our store, open Monday through Friday from 8:30 to 4:30.