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spent mushroom block straw 🌱 Soil & Medium

Certified-organic straw that has been pre-pasteurized and then used to grow gourmet mushrooms — sold on after harvest as a mycelium-rich mulch material.

This is the BAS-preferred indoor mulch: grown on an organic mushroom farm, the waste block becomes the mulch and kills pathogens and weed seed during pasteurization.

Discussed in: Ep 007