March meandered in like a lamb and roared out like a lion weather-wise, but for us, it roared all month long! We started off strong with an evening of lobbying with the farm bureau, moved swiftly into a decadent meal by Chef David Stein in our shop, through a mushroom experience dinner with Chef MattContinue reading “Like Spores in the Wind”
Category Archives: Uncategorized
Mushrooms in So Many Pans
February was a flurry of fungi fun! We participated in culinary, education, and advocacy events all month long. 2 mushroom experience dinners, a cocktail pairing, field trips, classroom push-ins, print and radio interviews, and lots of lawmaker interactions all kept us very busy on top of growing mushrooms, delivering to new restaurants, and working onContinue reading “Mushrooms in So Many Pans”
Growing through the Cold and Snow
The January chill has certainly encouraged our mushrooms to blossom! We spread our hyphae far and wide over the past few years and some of our efforts are really starting to bear fruit! From co-creating unique mushroom experience dinners with some of our favorite local chefs, to psilocybin advocacy efforts that have grown to theContinue reading “Growing through the Cold and Snow”
New Year New Shrooms!
We wrapped up another incredible month of mushrooms and closed out 2023 with a few delicious events! 2023 was a huge year for us. So many exciting connections and ways we’ve grown! From grow your own mushroom workshops to large scale dinner productions, 2023 was an incredible year! Thank you all so much for followingContinue reading “New Year New Shrooms!”
Into the Winter
November is always such a bittersweet month. The days rapidly get shorter and colder, rain changes to sleet, ice, and snow, and our fungi friends go into hiding in the forests. However, our farm grow rooms remained bursting at the seams, and a few cold weather strains started making a comeback! The shifting weather didn’tContinue reading “Into the Winter”
All the Fall Fungi
October was such a full month. From live performances, to cooking classes, to finalizing details for the SPAC dinner, to teaching our Hudson Valley Community College class, to growing mountains of mushrooms, we put our heads down and got it done! Perhaps the largest hurdle we’ve leapt to date also occurred in October: we putContinue reading “All the Fall Fungi”
The Changing Seasons
September is one of our favorite months! The beginning of “circle-every-oak” season! Here in the northeast we are gifted with bountiful fungal fruitings of chicken of the woods and hen of the woods if you know where to look! We started our month up in the Adirondack Mountains where we found Black Trumpets, Hedgehogs, andContinue reading “The Changing Seasons”
Summer Mushrooms
August was an incredible month for mushrooms! We have been engaged in a lot of outreach and have hosted many events from book club to metal nights and even got into the forest several times to wild harvest some of the capital region’s most delectable natural gifts! We started the month out by participating inContinue reading “Summer Mushrooms”
July Flurries
The Summer is fully upon us and the mycelium has been happily spreading everywhere… and so have we! Our products have found new markets, we’ve explored new forests, and lots of new people have visited for a variety of activities from dinner to dancing! Read on to see what we did in July, and whatContinue reading “July Flurries”
June Fruiting
The summer rains have begun to fall and mushrooms are popping up everywhere! We’ve been doing a bit of popping ourselves! From prepared food pop-ups to music and art celebrations, June was an exciting month indeed! Chef Ria Ibrahim-Taylor curated a beautiful evening of mushroom delights for our June dinner on the Farm. The CapitalContinue reading “June Fruiting”
Collar City Mushrooms 