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Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer

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Re: Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer

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Post by Bayart »

xattt wrote: post #32

> Mushroom® Packaging, grown from natural mushroom mycelium and agricultural by-products … Does anyone know the agricultural byproducts are?

Certainly dung. A common substrate for growing mushroom is a straw or shredded wood depending on the species plus manure.

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Post by jcims »

Just a side note. I started growing mushrooms a couple of years ago.

Very interesting and fulfilling hobby, they are incredibly interesting critters. Takes a little bit of dedication to get started but once you start seeing them fruit and making your own substrate it's quite inexpensive and a lot of fun. I have a feeling lots of folks in this community would really like it.

Basic starter package is a 'monotub', selection of spores, grain for spawning, substrate for fruiting and miscellaneous bits and bobs for handling, hydrating, maintaining temps and cultivating. North Spore and Midwest Grow Kits are both reputable and reliable suppliers.

Tons of resources on YouTube as you might expect. One of my favorites is Southwest Mushrooms - https://www.youtube.com/@SouthwestMushrooms

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Post by cogman10 »

oniony wrote: post #19

There are already companies that use packaging made from formed paper and sugarcane. I would be interested to see what mycelium packaging offers over this. E.g. https://www.jishan-group.com/pulp-products .

In the old days, wood shaving and even popcorn were the packing material of choice.

The reason styrofoam is used is because it's cheaper (main) and it doesn't decompose when wet.

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Post by netdevphoenix »

larodi wrote: post #10

how's this Europe's given factories (and all likeliness all else) is in UK? https://magicalmushroom.com/manufacturing/the-factories geographically, perhaps, not EU though. and not relevant to EU where there are at least several similar companies such as Grown.bio - Netherlands PermaFungi - Brussels (New 1,400 m² factory) RongoDesign - Romania Biomyc - Bulgaria perhaps more. So this title is super misleading - not fir…

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Re: Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer

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Post by schrijver »

larodi wrote: post #10

how's this Europe's given factories (and all likeliness all else) is in UK? https://magicalmushroom.com/manufacturing/the-factories geographically, perhaps, not EU though. and not relevant to EU where there are at least several similar companies such as Grown.bio - Netherlands PermaFungi - Brussels (New 1,400 m² factory) RongoDesign - Romania Biomyc - Bulgaria perhaps more. So this title is super misleading - not fir…

Thanks for the links ! Good to have an overview of the current crop turns out there is a factory near me
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