ORGANIC TURKEY TAIL

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  • Home
  • Shop
  • Culture Info
    • Finer Details
    • Analysis
  • Photos & Videos
  • About
  • Contact
  • Grow Your Own
  • Blog
  • Use Info
  • No Stipe, Cap production

Culture info

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Turkey Tail Vermont represents a new, reliable source for USDA certified organic, high-quality, turkey tail mushrooms (Trametes versicolor​).
Available in bulk quantities, for the wholesale market as well as the individual.

Other comparable turkey tail products on the market are either:

  • more expensive and/or unavailable in quantity,
  • not mushrooms, but mycelium-colonized grain,
  • or grown overseas.
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Our turkey tails are grown in northern Vermont using a unique and highly efficient method of cultivation.
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This method produces beautiful mushrooms that are proven to contain high levels of key active compounds, such as triterpenoids and beta-glucans.

​[Independently tested at 50.8
% (1-3)(1-6)beta-glucan content and 77.6 IU/g vitamin D2.] Analysis here.  



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​ ​They are high-quality because:

  1. The mushrooms are grown on hardwood-based substrate.  Hardwood trees, like maple, beech, ash and birch, are their natural food source.  [Research is showing that "Mushrooms grown on natural substrates have the precursors to produce important secondary metabolites such as triterpenoids".]
  2. They develop to maturity outdoors under the natural elements of sun, wind and rain.
  3. At harvest, they are fully separated from the substrate.  The finished product is pure mushroom tissue.
  4. They are dried in the sun, pore-side up, to increase vitamin D content.

They are low-cost because:
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  • ​I can fruit the mushrooms outside in rows under shade cloth.  As opposed to a grow rooms.

  • I am able to grow a thick layer of turkey tails that can be quickly harvested from the substrate.
  • I use less energy, water and labor during inoculation of the substrate than traditional methods.  This link goes to my educational website, which illustrates the basic inoculation method for several types of mushrooms.
Organic?

Yes, we are USDA Certified Organic by Vermont Organic Farmers under Kris Coville's name (although we are a married couple).  Below is our latest Certificate of Compliance.  We grow many small crops here.  Turkey Tail is listed on page 3, twice for some reason.
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For more details about our unique method of growing turkey tails, including how the by-products can be used.
Finer Details
For any questions or comments, email me at [email protected]
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