Start Your Mushroom Grow Here:
New to mushroom cultivation? Start here. This beginner-friendly guide walks you through the easiest ways to begin growing mushrooms with Swamp Fox Fungi, from ready-to-fruit blocks and wine cap garden beds to low-tech outdoor oysters, agar, and liquid culture.
Spent Mushroom Substrate: Garden Gold?
Spent Mushroom Substrate: Garden Gold?
While its the “waste” product of Mushroom Growing, SMS is a the start of a new cycle in The Garden.
Mushroom Fruiting Conditions in Florida: Why the Standard Rules Don't Apply
Florida growers — this one's for you.
The fruiting parameters you see online were built for 65°F commercial grow rooms in Pennsylvania. They are not your parameters.
Just posted a full breakdown of why mushrooms actually fruit in heat: substrate moisture as a buffer, evaporative cooling at the block surface, CO₂ as the ignored variable, and why sourcing warm-climate genetics changes everything.
Not all Blue Oysters are the same. Not all Lion's Manes are the same. The strain matters.
Wine Cap Mushrooms
Wine Caps are one of the easiest outdoor mushrooms you can grow — no sterile lab, no pressure cooker, no fruiting tent. Just spawn, wood chips, shade, and water. If you already understand mulching a garden, you're halfway there. This is outdoor mushroom cultivation the way it was meant to be done.
MALT YEAST AGAR (MYA): The Ideal Agar Profile
If you want to actually see what's happening with your cultures — catch contamination early, isolate clean genetics, and work with spores confidently — agar work is the skill that changes everything. And Malt Yeast Agar is the best place to start. Four ingredients, one flat surface, total visibility
Welcome To Swamp Fox Fungi
Swamp Fox Fungi is a Jacksonville, Florida-based mycology education, cultivation, and community brand. We're here to help growers at every level learn fungi through honest education, hands-on resources, and a community that actually supports each other. Myceliate Tomorrow — starting today.