I called two mushroom farms that had supplied the bulk of my friends’ kits and learned business was booming. “It’s been a very steep increase in sales,” said Matt McInnis, one of the founders of North Spore, in Portland, Maine, which was started in 2014 by three friends who went mushroom foraging together in college. Sales of introductory mushroom growing supplies had increased 400 percent during the pandemic over the previous spring, he said. Mushrooms such as morel mushrooms have weak spores, so it may be difficult or even impossible to shelf life of magic mushrooms grow mushrooms from them when they are dry. This means that you have to put the type of mushrooms into consideration. You can still try to grow mushrooms from dried mushrooms with fragile spores, maybe you’d be lucky. ldquo;We are excited to expand our research and development to include the production of psilocybin for medical use,rdquo; said Garden, who lives in Cloverdale with his wife Brandi Garden. ldquo;We look forward to providing research and healthcare communities with safe, high-quality, scientifically-tested and expert-made full dose and micro-dosing products.rdquo;