The area fungal abundance continued with the early onset of circle every oak season! Amy, our expert Maitake huntress, has been finding hens and chickens all through September! Our farm share customers, market guests, and restaurant partners have all benefitted from the bounty! We’ve updated our mushroom extract poster to add the new Oyster MushroomContinue reading “Autumn Onset”
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August Abundance
The fungi abundance flourished even further in August! We found and foraged so many mushrooms, engaged with so many mycocurious customers, and enjoyed opportunities to share our joy of mushrooms with so many people! What a full month! We sent so many wild foraged mushrooms to market! Cassidy has joined our team! They will beContinue reading “August Abundance”
Summer Rains and Summer Shrooms
July continued to provide rainy days and evenings, so the mushrooms continued to show off! We wild harvested so many delightful edibles and encountered such an array of fungal diversity! We also continued to educate myco-curious people and planned for some larger upcoming events. The mycophiles on the Collar City Mushrooms team are not justContinue reading “Summer Rains and Summer Shrooms”
Fungi Education Month
June was all about education! We engaged with so many young mycologists and wild food curious learners! Always with the reminder that NO MUSHROOM SHOULD EVER BE EATEN RAW! (This suggestion surprises many adults as well, as people have become accustomed to eating raw buttons with their salad. Even Agaricus mushrooms should be cooked beforeContinue reading “Fungi Education Month”
A Wild Month
May was such a wild month! With the 5th year of Foraged New York kicking off in restaurants and other venues around the Capital Region and beyond, lots of fungi finding, forest explorations, and new mushroom friends being spread around our farm, we were busy, but most of our free time was spent outdoors! TheContinue reading “A Wild Month”
Bring on the Spring Greens
April in upstate New York is always an exciting time! The forests and fields come alive with so many shades of green. Magnolias blossom into gorgeous pinks and whites, forsythia and red bud bloom, and all the early spring ephemerals pop! Our team got out there to forage prolific invasives for our 5th year ofContinue reading “Bring on the Spring Greens”
So Many Reasons to Roar!
Our March Mushroom Experience Dinner Featuring Chef Riany Mena was a delicious evening! The Clear Mountain Room was full of happy diners and lots of mushrooms! Our new Mushroom Table Centerpieces were a huge hit! We’re thinking about constructing a few to sell in the future! Chef Riany was interviewed by Suzie Davidson Powell forContinue reading “So Many Reasons to Roar!”
Speeding Towards Spring
February may be the shortest month of the year, but we certainly packed a lot in: fungi growth, planning, and events filled our calendar. It was a whirlwind, but we made it! Our Valentine’s Dinner featuring Chef Dale Hajdasz in the newly renovated Indian Ladder Farms Cidery and Brewery tasting room was a huge success! Continue reading “Speeding Towards Spring”
The Depths of Winter
The January cold wind and snow couldn’t keep our fungi from fruiting! Now that we are entering year two of our operation at Indian Ladder Farms, we are starting to smooth out some of the bumps, understand the new challenges, and relax into our new operation. In 2026 we will be offering more workshops andContinue reading “The Depths of Winter”
Kicking off the New Year
December marked our first full year of occupying space at Indian Ladder Farms. We are so grateful for this opportunity to grow together. 2025 provided many challenges (redesigning and relearning our grow conditions in the new space) and many successes (see below). December finished with a bang! Amy and Avery attended the NY Farm BureauContinue reading “Kicking off the New Year”
