Method 05·Nothing wasted
Feed Your Garden, Soil, and Animals
If expansion is not your thing, the spent block is still valuable. It is loaded with mycelium, residual nutrients, and organic matter.
Image: a bag of spent substrate ready to use in the garden.
§ Step by step
- 01
Use it as a soil amendment
Dump it in your garden. Gardeners pay good money for living, mycelium-rich material like this.
- 02
Mix it into your compost
It speeds breakdown and adds biology your pile will thank you for.
- 03
Feed it to chickens
They go after it and it is genuinely good for them.
- 04
Bag it and sell it
Some growers sell it by the bag, around 5 to 8 dollars per five gallon bag, at farmers markets and to local gardeners and greenhouses.
§ What to expect
The bag keeps giving long after the last harvest. Nothing goes to waste, everything cycles back.
§ Keep the cycle going
Nothing here requires buying anything. But if you want more material to expand from, a fresh kit or refill is the fastest way to stack another cycle on top of this one.