Desert Fog grows oyster and other gourmet mushrooms locally in a climate-controlled setup. Harvest is the morning of delivery. Chefs get a mushroom that still tastes like a mushroom. Home growers start with a ready-to-fruit kit.
The same organism has a second job. After a fire, burn-scar soil holds PAHs. Seasonal grass is what grows back if they stay. The grass cures in the dry season and becomes tinder. The scar burns again. Plants do not take those PAHs out. Pleurotus can. That is the current research line.
Restaurants and chefs first. Farmers-market cash flow. Kits at funguyfungi.org. Bench before container. USDA FSA operating microloan is the startup capital track.
Research partnership first. Four arms: control, plants, fungi, both. Extractable PAH by GC-MS. Container design stays company-owned. Science and publications stay with the university. Coal-ash / ash-basin work is prior related research, not this line.
Kitchens that are tired of shipped specialty mushrooms. Home growers who want a kit that fruits. Land managers and faculty who need a measured way to treat fire ground instead of reseeding poison.