Mushroom log incubation building
- Dec 31, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Jan 16, 2025
This year we have lots more to report about our "new" log incubation building. Perhaps it is no longer new - since it went up in 2023, but it has gotten much closer to done as of December 2024!
In 2023 we put up the building and had a floor poured. And we started by using it for log inoculations; see our post on that here!
It was great to have that new space, but it was still freezing - with no insulation or heat - and come summer it baked! In the late summer though we had the space insulated with closed-cell spray foam insulation; it had an immediate moderating effect on temperatures, but we still weren't able to get a heater in the space until after thanksgiving! We had a couple of cold-snaps in the meantime - only keeping the pipes from freezing by keeping the overhead door to the other space open - to share it's heat. Both insulation and heat were paid for by a LOFF grant from a Lakewinds Food Co-op!
Finally we got the heater installed before Christmas and it's been working great! We have started log inoculations again, but this year we've got a much better set-up. And - for the first time - we are incubating shiitake mushroom logs indoors using a rare "high-speed incubation technique" pioneered by Japanese mushroom farmers. I promise there will be more about this; we're really excited!
We were a bit worried about how to get the heater into place, but it was really quite easy! I put in the wood supports above and some perforated steel tube, then threaded rod long enough to reach down to where I could man-handle the heater. Then it was a matter of tightening bolts until it was into position just below the wood supports.
I chose a separated combustion unit heater (aka garage heater) because we may be growing mushrooms in here in the future and fresh air is always welcome for that! That meant that I had to install a supply air duct (below) as well as the vent duct. For this I opted for the premium category iii pipe recommended for horizonal applications. Once installed we hired a plumber to hook up the unit to a natural gas line.
We keep it a bit nippy - since incubating logs like it like that - but this is a hothouse compared with past years of log inoculations!
The new space made log inoculation projects much Space Waves easier, but there were still some challenges to overcome.
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