A sprawling warehouse in the middle of Vernon is the location of an urban mushroom farm that New York-based company Smallhold opened five months ago.
“Fantastic Fungi” featured legendary mycologist Paul Stamets, who noted that research shows compounds in lion’s mane mushrooms can help fight dementia-related cognitive dysfunction. Fungi, apparently, also can communicate with trees, boost our immune systems and help clean the environment.
What started as Carter’s experiment growing trumpet mushrooms in a basement in 2015 has become a company of 115 employees in three states, selling mushrooms to more than 500 stores across the country and an expanding roster of chefs and restaurants. “Oyster mushrooms, lion’s mane, maitake, shiitake — all of these don’t ship that well. So growing them closer to the consumer, it’s better for the consumer,” Carter said. “The technology we use and methods we use are significantly lower in carbon footprint than any other mushroom farm, and our water print is negligible. You couldn’t really find much food that uses less water than Smallhold.”
Inside one of the chambers, wall-to-wall shelving holds blue oyster mushrooms . Some are just starting to bear fruiting bodies, or sporing bodies. The fruiting body is the mushroom, and it develops from mycelium — a fungus’ network of filaments — as part of its reproductive process. “But those evolve quite a bit over the years because we’re collecting so much data and we know how to grow these in a more optimum way.”The data is closely monitored by a team of engineers at Smallhold’s New York headquarters. As soon as the Los Angeles team arrives each morning at the Vernon location, engineers are ready to make any adjustments. “It also takes hands, eyes — we have a lot of people,” said Jesse Goldman, general manager of Smallhold in Southern California.
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