Field Notes from the Southwest Mushrooms archive
Field Notes · Issue 002 · The culture collection
A culture collection is not one number.
Looking back through the Southwest Mushrooms archive, I see the work behind each crop: cultures selected, labels written, reserves kept and decisions carried forward. These photographs take us back to that work, and to the questions a shelf full of cultures cannot answer on its own.
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Field Notes · Issue 001 · Beneath the cap
Beneath the cap, a different story: the architecture of spores, the shape of maitake and the moment a harvest is ready.
Under the canopy · One mushroom, many fans · Harvest by maturity, not size · A harvest-to-cooler reference to keep
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A mistake might not become apparent until weeks later, when the culture turns out not to be the one intended. The information needs to travel with the vessel from the beginning.
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