MidWest Fresh Mushrooms

09/15/2025

Freshly grown Lion’s Mane, dehydrated Lions’s Mane, and grow your own kits available. Shipping available for dehydrated Lion’s Mane and capsules.

09/15/2025

Freshly made Lion’s Mane capsules are now in stock. Shipping available.

07/21/2025

Tiger Sawgill…a super easy and fun mushroom to grow. Very cool and unique looking.

07/07/2025

Our Etsy Shop is now open and we are selling both liquid cultures and colonized agar plates of numerous gourmet mushrooms. You can find the products here:

Shop items by MWFMUSHROOMS.

07/06/2025

Freshly picked Lion’s Mane and Pink Oyster mushrooms for dinner tonight. We will go with Lion’s Mane crab cakes and sautéed Pink Oyster mushrooms.

06/22/2024

If anyone knows a young adult or adult looking for some extra cash with IMMEDIATE availability to do some hard work helping me prepare mushroom substrate, move some things in my garage, help with wine cap bed preparation in my yard, taking boxes, etc let me know ASAP. I could use the help right away and the pay is $15/hour cash. Message me.

04/28/2024

It’s not just morel season, it is Wine Cap season! Wine Caps (Stropharia Rugosoannulata) can be easily grown in outdoor wood chip patches right here in IA as long as you have a shady spot that gets some sunlight. I know what will be the star of dinner tonight. I should have checked yesterday, but the old ones are at least spreading spores and there are little ones that will be prime picking tomorrow.

Not wanting to jump ahead until my website goes live, but I do sell Wine Cap grain spawn and would be willing to help anyone setup a bed if interested for a reasonable fee. All you would have to do is water and year after year in Spring and Fall you’ll get a nice harvest.

03/24/2024

If anyone has property/timber with small oak trees, please get in touch with me regarding price for me cutting some down. They can’t be older cut logs, as I have to inoculate them and seal them with wax so they have a jumpstart on competing fungi. I’m planning on inoculating some logs with chicken of the woods and shiitake spawn I’ve been growing.

I need trees that are around 4-6” in diameter and need them soon before they become nutrient depleted when they start fruiting. If you know someone that might have the trees, feel free to tag them as well!

I’m including pictures of what I’m looking to get.

03/03/2024

I appreciate the messages already but I won’t be taking orders for sterilized or colonized grain spawn, substrate, grow supplies, or dehydrated lions mane, chestnuts, or Pioppinos until after I am finished setting up my workshop and have business licensing all in place. I’m shooting for a launch date of May 1st. Look for the announcement when the web page goes live. I’m hoping to get a lot done over Spring Break.

And for the love of God, please stop messaging me for illegal products or grow advice for your shoebox grows that are contaminated! Not interested and you’ll be banned from the page! 🤦

03/03/2024

Some exciting news to come. My wife wants her kitchen back and I’ve been working very hard to convert 1/2 the garage to my business. I had an electric heater installed and A/C will be later this summer.

I hope after spring break to have a launch date by May 1st and have my website www.midwestfreshmushrooms.com up and running and ready to take orders. I have a commercial sterilizer and hope to sell sterilized grain spawn, three different types of substrate, and colonized grain spawn ready to be mailed to anyone in the continental US. I just have to finish the paperwork getting the business set up first. The Farmer’s Market license is so much simpler than starting a business.

To start, I’ll be selling colonized grain spawn blocks of blue oyster mushrooms, golden oyster mushrooms, pink oyster mushrooms, chestnut mushrooms, lions mane, and wine cap wood spawn.

I’ll also be selling grow supplies like bags, injections ports, etc.

I’m looking forward to the many many hours of agar work, trying and failing before succeeding with lions mane finally paying off.

03/03/2024

Been working nonstop to get ready for Farmer’s Market season. Hope to have plenty of Chestnut Mushrooms, Oysters, and this year adding Lion’s Mane. It’s been tricky but I think I’ve finally figured out how to grow them.

I also had a bumper crop of Wine Cap mushrooms last spring and fall. Working on getting a bunch of blocks of colonized wood spawn blocks. I plan to have an educational flyer of how easy it is to setup an outdoor wine cap bed in your own yard. If all goes well, I’ll have plenty of colonized spawn blocks for sale as well!

09/07/2023

Come see us at the Farmers Market at Bayliss Park.