29/06/2026
🍄🟫 Winter fungi feels
While the soil is cooling down as winter sets in, our farm quietly comes alive. For mushrooms, this is the season of plenty.
You probably already know that mushrooms are neither plant, nor animal, plant, not animal, but something all their own: the great recyclers, the underground connectors, the quiet architects of healthy soil.
Here on the farm, that diversity is everywhere you look!
In the grow room, our cultivated beauties are flushing thick and fast — a tumble of King Trumpets with their ivory stems, and clusters of golden, speckled Chestnuts stacked like little lanterns.
Out in the garden, a magnificently lacquered Reishi has made it presence known beneath the turmeric leaves, its varnished red rings glowing like something from a fairytale.
And then there are the wild ones — the volunteers we don't grow at all. A humble bale of straw, left to the weather, has become a whole tiny city of fungi: little white parasols, brown bells, caps of every shape, each one doing its quiet work of turning waste back into life. Not for the table, just for the wonder of it. ✨
This is what we love most about fungi: the sheer, generous diversity of them. Every shape, every colour, every one with a similar job to do... keeping soil biodiversity (and gut biodiversity for that matter) alive.
— with love from the farm x
