Would there be any interest in agar plates here?

Just wondering if anyone would be interested in buying edible varieties of agar plates for inoculating your own spawn?
I could get some going if there was an interest.

What varieties of species do you have available? I'm going to assume you are in the US but are you able to ship elsewhere?

I would love to expand our mushroom empire as it's pitifully slow to produce at the moment. I think, if we had a few hundred logs of each species (shiitake, oyster, lions mane) rather than <10, we would be in better shape! Unfortunately buying ready-colonised plugs or spawn to do this would be exorbitantly expensive. Buying agar, or liquid culture, might be a way to go.

Luke Mitchell wrote:What varieties of species do you have available? I'm going to assume you are in the US but are you able to ship elsewhere?

I would love to expand our mushroom empire as it's pitifully slow to produce at the moment. I think, if we had a few hundred logs of each species (shiitake, oyster, lions mane) rather than <10, we would be in better shape! Unfortunately buying ready-colonised plugs or spawn to do this would be exorbitantly expensive. Buying agar, or liquid culture, might be a way to go.

I'm just getting ideas to see the interest. I am US based. I would be willing to try and get any species going. I already plan to buy lions main and shitake for myself so that won't be a problem. I have wild oysters that grow here, so I could probably get that going with little effort.

Basically if this idea gets some traction, I would just build my variety to suit the needs of my customers.
I also have an abundant amount of variety that grow here naturally, and I would be willing to try to propagate just about any of them. I really enjoy exploring and learning more about mushrooms, so this would just be a natural expansion of my hobby.

I haven't checked on shipping outside the US yet. I'm not opposed to it, but I do see a potential problem. If it takes too long in transit and the temperatures are off too much, the mycelium could die. But if you were willing to take the risk, or we shipped during a cooler season we might be able to come up with a solution.