Wraithwood Botanist - Chapter 9: The Return

... r, fill the rest with milk, put it in a cooler of hot water—and go to sleep—the next morning, you’ll have a new jar of yogurt. That’s all it takes.

Yogurt is bacteria—and bacteria grow if there’s food.

The same is true of mycelium. You shred it into thousands of little pieces, mix it into sterilized water, and you get what’s known as a slurry. Then, you add it onto a sterile substrate—usually a type of wood or grain—and each one of those pieces of shredded mycelium starts growing ...