On the bench

The lab.

Everything a serious home lab wants and can't fit. Book it, use it, clean it, leave it better than you found it.

Sterile

Laminar flow hood

HEPA-filtered clean workspace for transfers and inoculation.

Sterilize

Autoclave

Proper pressure sterilization for substrate, tools, and media.

Observe

Microscopes

Compound scopes with cameras for spores, tissue, and contam ID.

Incubate

Incubators

Temperature-controlled colonization, tuned per species.

Fruit

Fruiting chambers

Humidity- and airflow-managed rooms for the final flush.

Prep

Media & agar station

Pour plates, make slants, and store your culture line.

Store

Culture library

Cold storage plus a shared, catalogued strain collection.

Scale

Bulk grain & substrate

Weigh out what you need from communal, at-cost supply.

Getting in

From sign-up to first plate.

01

Join & orient

Pick a tier, then come in for a safety and sterile-technique orientation. It's how we keep the whole lab clean.

02

Book your time

Reserve the flow hood, a bench, or a fruiting shelf online. Grab supplies at cost while you're there.

03

Grow & give back

Run your projects, log your cultures, and share what you learn. Members teach the next members.

Ready to get your hands in it?

Membership starts at $15/mo CAD, with day passes and hardship rates for everyone else.

See membership