The Great Alaska Shroomery

06/24/2026

Some morel pics from the weekend.

06/21/2026

A good day hiking the burn of the bear creek fire. Put up about 40 pounds today. Took quite a while to get away from the picked over area but once I did it was plentiful. Rain and lightnig came in so I moved further up north. Now on the Bonanza creek fire. Start picking in the AM.

06/19/2026

My goodness been forever since posting. Spring…busy with Gods blessings in every direction. Here’s what’s happening at the Shroomery.

MORELS ARE IN! We are headed to the burn fields again to restock. We will have fresh morels available Monday June 22. Deliveries to Anchorage and wasilla area. LIMITED SUPPLY. MY COMMERCIAL BUYERS SCOOP UP MOST WE HARVEST, PM IF INTERESTED.

We are currently rebuilding our grow rooms and systems. Should be done with this build out in a week or two and rolling right back into production mode.

Our CSA will be available for sign ups coming this next weekend. Past customers will get email as usual, otherwise we post everywhere to get signed up.

This years line up on Chefs mix is BS26 (Blue/Snow oyster cross), Gunsight Oysters, lions mane, pink and golden oysters. Our specialties each month will be a mix of king oysters, black Pearl kings, moon pearls, Maitake, yetis breath oysters, Enoki couple different type, pioppino and Almond Agaricus (Royal Sun Blazei).

Our field is partially planted! All CSA customers get add on fresh veggies this summer. No charge, but we will be adding freshly harvested produce to every order going out this summer. See the field in the pics added.

It’s been a crazy start of summer with surgery recovery, new research field for our morel study and all newly built grow rooms taking place as we speak. Expansion is good….

06/19/2026

Cordycep harvest update- 4.6 pounds this batch, all but 1 pound spoken for.

06/06/2026

Mycology friends. Who has one. Just got this one in today as an upgrade. Any helpful tips on them appreciated. Got it with the stand and foot petal too.

05/31/2026

🚜💨 BOOM! What an ABSOLUTELY EPIC day down at the farm with my mini-me! 🌾👶✨The legendary Antique Tractor Club rolled out in full force today to play in the dirt and help us kick things into overdrive! 🚜🔥 They brought the horsepower, and we brought the hustle!Check the stats: Our massive 175x100 field is officially TILLED and ready for action! 🔥 We also slammed down our very first row of irrigation 💦 AND got the IRT Mulch locked and loaded! 🛠️🌱You know we had to hit the brakes for a quick fuel stop—nothing beats a thick milkshake and a juicy burger to recharge the batteries! 🍔🥤 But no rest for the wicked... we are already tearing back to the fields to plant our future STATE FAIR WINNING CABBAGE! 🏆🥬 WATCH OUT COMPONENT, WE ARE COMING FOR THAT BLUE RIBBON! 🥇💪This is just the beginning, folks! 🚀 We have a mountain of work ahead with OVER 4,000 PLANT STARTS going into the ground over the next week! 🤯🌱Stay tuned... the farm grind never stops! 👇🧑‍🌾👩‍🌾
I found that who wants to be a millionaire in the field after it was fully tilled. Maybe a sign of good things to come. Farming and praying.

05/21/2026

🌲🚲 Forest Dividends & Spring Foraging! 🌾✨A recent ride out to my secret harvesting grounds paid major dividends as usual! 🗺️💪 Sometimes, the timing of being out in the woods is just absolutely perfect. I stumbled upon a pristine stand of Devil’s Club that was at a premium, peak level for medicinal picking! 🌿💎This beautiful haul marks the official first batch of the season! 🥳 I harvested the fresh, resinous spring buds for this specific batch, and my goal is to craft about 4 to 5 gallons of powerful, fresh-bud tincture before spring comes to a close. A lot more private property picking to get done this week🧪🍶💡 Why Devil's Club Spring Bud Tincture?While many people use the bark, capturing Devil's Club (Oplopanax horridus) right at the budding stage offers a unique and highly potent medicine. These fresh spring buds are packed with concentrated resins, essential oils, and the plant's vital early-season energy:🫁 Deep Respiratory Support: The intense, aromatic resins in the fresh buds act as a powerful expectorant, excellent for clearing heavy chest congestion and soothing stubborn coughs.🛡️ Immune Booster & Lymphatic Flush: Fresh buds are loaded with antimicrobial and antibacterial properties, helping the body fight off seasonal bugs and stimulating lymphatic drainage.🩹 Pain & Inflammation Relief: This vibrant spring energy brings strong anti-inflammatory benefits, making the tincture highly effective for calming joint stiffness and muscle soreness.⚡ Invigorating Adaptogen: As a cousin to ginseng, the fresh buds offer an uplifting, clarifying energetic boost to help beat spring fatigue and build physical resilience.🔥 But wait... there's more! 🔥Exciting times are ahead because Morel Mushroom season is officially just around the corner! 🍄💃 I checked the soil today and the ground temperatures are sitting right at a promising 48.2°F! 🌡️🌱 The forest floor is waking up, and the best is yet to come!Who else is getting out into the woods this week? Let me know what you’re hunting for in the comments! 👇🌲🍄

05/19/2026

Way cool stuff

A new study has found geological evidence of a massive global fungal bloom that erupted in the aftermath of the Chicxulub asteroid impact 66 million years ago - the same event that ended the dinosaurs.

The impact, which hit the Yucatán Peninsula with a force of 100 million megatons, alongside simultaneous volcanic eruptions, blotted out the sun and plunged Earth into cold, dark, damp conditions.

Bad news for megafauna. Near-perfect conditions for fungi, which thrive as decomposers of dead and dying organic matter.

Baker and Casadevall sampled rock layers from two well-preserved geological sites - Denver Basin in Colorado and Williston Basin in North Dakota - looking for fossilised spores and other microfossils (called palynomorphs) across the Cretaceous, the K/Pg boundary, and the Paleocene.

At the K/Pg boundary clay layers, fungal forms made up 50% or more of the total fossil assemblage. They found corroborating fungal spikes at both sites, including evidence of fungal roots (hyphae) and multiple spore types.

Crucially, they only found this because they changed the method. Standard geological analysis uses a harsh sequence of acids and chemical treatments that, it turns out, dissolve fungal microfossils in the process.

By switching to sodium hexametaphosphate and skipping a standard filtration step that removes smaller particles, they preserved evidence that previous studies had been accidentally destroying for years.

This also explains why prior evidence for this phenomenon was so thin. Only one previous study, from Moody Creek Mine in New Zealand, had documented it.

The researchers also note that fungi may not have just fed on the dead. Ecological stress compromises immune defences, meaning living species could have faced surging fungal disease pressure at the same time as everything else was going wrong.

Source: R.P. Baker, & A. Casadevall, Fungal proliferation before and after the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction event in North America, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 123 (20) DOI: 2536899123

05/17/2026

05/16/2026

🌱 2 weeks out and counting! Like everyone else, we are playing the waiting game, but big things are happening behind the scenes this year. We’ve upgraded to a 1/2 acre—getting closer and closer to that real farmer life! 🚜👩‍🌾 lol.🍄 Honestly, mushrooms are my true love, but since the family can't live on fungi alone, here we are diversifying!We’ve been pampering our plant starts with local microbes since Day 1. It’s a process, but I harvested indigenous microbes from the woods at the field's edge and brewed them into a liquid gold tea for watering. 🧪✨This weekend and next, we are taking it to the next level:🐛 Inoculating the entire 1/2 acre with our custom microbe solution!🍂 Tilling mushroom substrate directly into the soil right alongside those microbes.Our mindset this year? We are farming the soil, not the plants. When you feed the soil, the soil takes care of the plants. At least, in my demented head it works that way! 🤪Happy Spring, folks! It is so close we can taste it. 🌦️🌻