About our Shrooms
Renowned mycologist, Paul Stamets, has stated that fungi can save the Earth. In just the last few years, we’ve come to learn that fungi are not just part of life on Earth, they allow it to happen. Every year it seems we learn something new about how fungi work and interact in Nature – something that benefits plants, animals, microorganisms, and humans. It is not hyperbole to say that life on Earth couldn’t exist without fungi. And fungi may well be the key to unlocking the secrets of health, prosperity and longevity.
A few years ago we began looking to fungi as a way to make the farms, orchards, and vineyards we work with healthier and more resilient. Along the way we learned how industrial agriculture impacts them and how the basis for regenerative agriculture begins with healthy soils dominated by fungi. We gained a deeper understanding of how they work in the world, what they really mean to humanity, and how we’ve barely tapped the fungal potential all around us. So, of course, we set off on a journey to cultivate, use, and understand fungi as food and medicine (is there any difference) for all forms of life.
In 2019, we inoculated out first shiitake mushrooms outdoors on sustainably harvested logs. Starting in 2020, we started cultivating oyster, reishi, lion’s mane, and winecaps, as well as shiitake; all for culinary purposes. In 2021 we upped our game and now have nearly 1000 logs inoculated with numerous different strains of shiitake on several types of logs. All of our mushrooms are grown naturally, and shall I say biodynamically, by growing mostly outdoors, using only natural materials, regional strains, with love and intention and the power of the cosmos.
We have fresh, dried, and powdered mushrooms available each week at the Trumansburg Farmer’s Market and our local KYR farm stand located in Trumansburg.
A few years ago we began looking to fungi as a way to make the farms, orchards, and vineyards we work with healthier and more resilient. Along the way we learned how industrial agriculture impacts them and how the basis for regenerative agriculture begins with healthy soils dominated by fungi. We gained a deeper understanding of how they work in the world, what they really mean to humanity, and how we’ve barely tapped the fungal potential all around us. So, of course, we set off on a journey to cultivate, use, and understand fungi as food and medicine (is there any difference) for all forms of life.
In 2019, we inoculated out first shiitake mushrooms outdoors on sustainably harvested logs. Starting in 2020, we started cultivating oyster, reishi, lion’s mane, and winecaps, as well as shiitake; all for culinary purposes. In 2021 we upped our game and now have nearly 1000 logs inoculated with numerous different strains of shiitake on several types of logs. All of our mushrooms are grown naturally, and shall I say biodynamically, by growing mostly outdoors, using only natural materials, regional strains, with love and intention and the power of the cosmos.
We have fresh, dried, and powdered mushrooms available each week at the Trumansburg Farmer’s Market and our local KYR farm stand located in Trumansburg.