Our Lions mane wood plug spawn is ready for inoculation the second the Urban Farm-It parcel appears on your doorstep. A powerful medicinal mushroom.
Urban Farm It - Lion’s Mane Mushroom Plug Spawn helps you grow your own gourmet mushrooms at home.
Lion’s mane mushrooms are popular in Asian and gourmet cuisine but can be added to any dish for a healthy and delicious meal, and they work great as a meat substitute. They’re also loved for their medicinal properties, especially in China, such as protection against dementia and stomach ulcers, reduced risk of heart disease, and managing diabetes symptoms.
Known for its resemblance to a lion’s mane, these mushrooms are a great addition to any dish but are renowned for their sweet, rich, and slightly savoury flavour, which many compare to the taste of lobster or crab, with a meaty and stringy texture.
Our plug spawn arrives on a wood carrier to replicate how it naturally grows on large trees. Reconnecting with natural growing processes, like log grows, offers a fresh and nutrient-rich meal in any environment, without needing to go to the shops. Log grows also remove the need for plastic packaging and introduce you to the highest quality, sustainable home-grown mushrooms.
Inoculation of a log is a process involving drilling into a log and hammering the spawn dowel in the hole before sealing with wax. Although it can take a year to see the fruits of your labour flourish from a log grow, you can expect harvests of mushrooms for up to eight years for long-term sustainable growth.
