A Visit To A MUSHROOM FARM! - Earth Angel Mushrooms

Do you like mushrooms? Most cooks and chefs love cooking with mushrooms. They provide such flavor and character to your meal that few other ingredients can provide. Have you ever wondered where they all come from and who grows them?

Well today, we visit Earth Angel Mushrooms in Pacific, MO in the United States. I contacted TR Davis a couple weeks before our trip and wanted to see if it was possible to stop by and get a couple of his t-shirts and take photos of his growing operation.

Now, we are not talking about button mushrooms here. Button mushrooms are the most common that are found in your local grocers. These mushrooms grown here are more desired after by chefs and restaurants looking for adding something special to their menu. Earth Angel Mushooms grows Shiitake, Oyster and King Oyster mushrooms.

Earth Angel Mushrooms is one of a few youtube channels that I watch on a regular basis concerning growing mushrooms. Meyers Mushrooms and What The Fungus are two others that have loads of great videos for those wanting to learn about growing mushrooms.

We got there and found that Eric Meyers from Meyers Mushrooms was visiting and so I got to snap a quick photo with the both of them.

TR began by giving us the grand tour of his facility. It was very impressive. Coming from a homestead, I could see all of the hard work that has gone into building his business.

Every room contained numerous bags in different states of growth. He began pointing out the growing process and the different bags in the different rooms. I believe in this room, his staff is inoculating new bags for growth.

Here is one of the many rooms containing growing bags of substrate used to grow mushroom mycelium. Again all the bags are in different states of growth. They are closely monitored for any signs of harmful bacteria and certain ones are culled if found to be infected. They seem to have this mushroom thing down to a science and the whole experience is pretty impressive.

Overhead are air ducts keeping air moving. Large fans are working in the grow rooms and the humidity is high with low temps maybe around 50 degrees or so. I believe the boxes on the floor are for shipping the now ready bags on the left to end users.

The next room was the fruiting room. Here were all kinds of rows and rows of fruiting mushroom blocks. These are harvested and then sold to grocers or restaurants. These are shiitake mushrooms behind me.

This is an amazing block of shiitake mushrooms fruiting. The place was filled with them!

Here is an impressive block of grey oyster mushrooms.

My two sons really enjoyed seeing the facility and learning a bit about how this works. We have been growing different mushrooms on the homestead for the last 3-4 years with pretty good success. I'd really like to learn how to grow my own mycelium here but I'm not sure that you can be successful. It's a bit harder to do that while living off grid. After all, we really enjoy having the homestead be sustainable. We save our seeds every year so that we can regrow them. It's a bit harder to do that with mushrooms it seems.

After getting the grand tour, TR gave us a shiitake block and here it is just a little over a week later.

Just so you know, all the mushroom channels mentioned in this post are available for training those wanting to learn about mushroom growing. It will never be a business for our homestead but we really enjoy growing shiitake logs and growing wine caps in our garden. For us, it's just another food source we are learning to grow.

But if you have an interest in growing mushrooms, these are the guys to go to and learn what they have learned.

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