Thera Metrey

For the first part of the day, we spent time outside adding to our steaming system. We were told by our advisor that the oven would run...

Today was our second to last day here in Makeni. We dedicated the morning to meeting with our advisor and more thoroughly outlining our...

We began today by checking our substrate bags in the MPS. These have been incubating two days ago and we wanted to see if there was any...

Today was a slow day without wifi. Our main task was pressure cooking another jar of grains. We used a piece of paper to cover the...

We started the day off by inoculating the substrate bags that we steamed yesterday. The bags appeared a bit moist inside and slightly...

Today we focused on our spawn and substrate processes. In the morning, we had a training session with our project manager, Jawara, and...

Today we finally finished our first MPS. It has roll up bars along its side and three rooms ready for our mushroom substrates. We also...

Today we wrapped up our first Sierra Leonian MPS-- both literally and figuratively. We finally attached the walls of the structure, as...

We started off the day by assessing the roof of the MPS again and talking with our construction lead on the best way to fix it. ...

We arrived at World Hope late today due to impedance from the rain. Upon arrival, we found that the roof of our structure had yet again...

The day began with us inspecting the structure after heavy rain last night. The roof was still intact but it had some water pooling on...

Today we continued work on the mushroom production system's walls and roof. We had some final supplies to purchase today such as sand,...

We arrived at the site bright and early around 7:45 am to start the second day of constructing our MPS. Once our whole crew arrived, we...

Today was an exciting day of constructing our first mushroom production system. We started the day by leveling the ground and using...

Today was our first day on the ground in Makeni. We started the day off by walking through the marketplace and visiting several vendors...

Our focus for the past two weeks has been preparing for our trip to Sierra Leone.  We have been developing business models for both our...

This week we saw a lot of encouraging progress with our grain spawn.  The rye grain inoculated with oyster mushrooms from the week has...

This week we refined our process of the liquid culture.  After our first attempt last week we observed that a mystery solid (not the...

Hello World, We had an eventful week full of presentation and inoculation.  The first half of our week was spent preparing for our press...

This week we made our first attempt at producing grain spawn.  First, we soaked barley, millet, and wheat, each mixed with used coffee...