How to Make Mushroom Chocolate Bars — Step-by-Step Recipe
Learn how to make mushroom chocolate bars at home — step-by-step recipe for medicinal and magic mushroom chocolates. Easy, shelf-stable, and perfectly dosed every time.
Turkey Tail Mushroom: Everything You Need to Know
Turkey tail is one of the most common — and most researched — medicinal mushrooms on Earth. Here’s how to identify, use, and grow it, in Jasper’s plain-language guide.
How to Make a Mushroom Tincture: The Double Extraction Guide
Learn how to make a double-extracted mushroom tincture at home — the alcohol soak, the water simmer, which mushrooms to use, dosing, and storage. A full guide from Fungi Academy.
How to Grow Chestnut Mushrooms
Quick answer: To grow chestnut mushrooms (Pholiota adiposa), start from a bought culture — they’re tricky to clone — expand it on agar, make grain spawn on millet, wheat, or rye, then colonise a supplemented hardwood-sawdust or straw substrate at around 72°F (22°C). Fruit the bag as one large cluster at cool temperatures (ideally 64–66°F) […]
How to Grow Reishi Mushrooms
Quick answer: Reishi (Ganoderma) is a beginner-friendly, forgiving mushroom to grow. Start with a quality culture on agar, expand to grain spawn, then fruit on supplemented hardwood sawdust (5 to 15 percent supplementation). Incubate around 70 to 80 degrees F, and fruit at 85 to 90 percent humidity. High CO2 produces antler-shaped fruits, while more […]
Soxhlet Extractor: Old Equipment, New Technique
Quick answer: A Soxhlet extractor is a piece of lab glassware, invented in 1879, that repeatedly cycles a heated solvent through dried mushrooms to make highly concentrated medicinal extracts. Because it is a closed system, it can safely heat high-proof alcohol to capture water-insoluble compounds like triterpenes and fatty acids. This guest post by Sam […]
Reishi Mushroom: Everything You Need to Know
Quick answer: Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum and related species) is a hard, woody medicinal mushroom prized in Chinese medicine for over 2,000 years and nicknamed the Mushroom of Immortality. It is packed with polysaccharides and triterpenes, traditionally used to support immunity, calm, and longevity. This guide covers Reishi’s history, its medicinal compounds and benefits, how to […]
The Ultimate Lemon Tek Guide — How to Lemon Tek Mushrooms Safely
Everything you need to know about lemon tek — what it is, how to do it safely, how strong it is, and whether it’s right for you. Fungi Academy’s ultimate lemon tek guide.
Best Places to Buy Mushroom Spores Online 2026 — Vetted Vendors
Find the best places to buy mushroom spores online in 2026 — trusted vendors for psilocybe cubensis, gourmet, and medicinal mushroom spores and cultures, personally vetted by Fungi Academy.
Lion’s Mane Mushroom — Benefits, Foraging, Growing & Cooking Guide
Learn the health benefits of lion’s mane mushroom, how to forage it in the wild, grow it at home, and cook it. Complete guide from Fungi Academy, backed by peer-reviewed research.
