As the Light Recedes
November is always a bitter sweet month. Wild mushroom season wraps up with the spreading cold and darkness and preparations for the long winter nights get underway, but there are always reasons to be grateful. Our Mushroom Experience Dinner featuring Chef Dave Chaiken was a huge success, we restocked a few popular items, and we…
The Cold and Rain Provides
October finally saw some rain in the Capital Region of New York and with the rain, the Mushrooms showed up in Force! Read on to see all the mushrooms we identified on the Indian Ladder Farms’ campus during the month. Our October dinner was a trip through the spices of southeast Asia! Ruchi served up…
The Summer that Never Ends!
September rolled through with some absolutely fantastic successes! From getting a second container, to our dinner on the farm, to huge movement in the efforts to create legal access to psilocybin-containing mushrooms. Read on to find out how the month unfolded and discover some ways to join in! Chef David Stein served up an incredible…
Summer Grooves
August is always a fast and furious month. The summer is in full swing and mushrooms in the forest are starting to really pop! Our educational and entertainment programs are really thriving! Read on to see all of our engagements in August, and how you can join us in the coming months! The Adirondack Experience…
Beating the Summer Heat
July was a hot one! Very little rain, and days of excessive heat has left the forests near us virtually empty of fungal activities, but our grow container has been nice and cool and still cranking out quality shrooms! The last month was a whirlwind, but we made it through! Chef Christina Lloyd crafted a…
Into the Woods
Yes, the month is almost over, time has completely gotten away from us here at the mushroom times publication desk, but here it is, the much anticipated July newsletter! June was a phenomenal month for finding wild mushrooms. Some mushrooms appeared earlier than they usually do in a year due to the heat and rainfall…
The Magic of May
Wild foods abound in May! Foraged New York’s 4th year was a huge success, we found wild edibles galore, our team expanded, and we did so much more! Read on to see how we spent our month and get a glimpse at what is coming right around the corner. Foraged New York year 4 spread…
The Forests and Fields Come Alive!
April is one of the most exciting times of year. The forests and fields break through their winter slumber and come alive. After the last few months of transition, destruction, re-building, ironing out, and settling, we at Collar City Mushrooms are starting to really feel like a functioning farm again, and just in time to…
Ironing Out the Bumps
Cultivating living organisms is never easy. Picking up and moving an entire business has its challenges. Shifting an operation focused on growing fresh fungi, who can be temperamental at the best of times, has truly been a Herculean task. We have finally massaged our infrastructure and workflow into conditions nearly back to what they were…
February is Advocacy Month
February was such a blustery month at our new location on the Indian Ladder Farms campus. We wrestled with the cold and constant wind and got our mushrooms fruiting! We fired up our main production equipment and refined some of our infrastructure. It is starting to feel like home for sure. The staff of Indian…
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