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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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

May is always such an exciting month.  The forests and fields spring vibrantly back to life, people start spending more time outdoors, and there is food to be found everywhere!  Our 2nd annual Foraged New York Festival was a huge success!  People all over the Capital Region enjoyed wild harvested treats at 15 different bars,Continue reading “The Forest Called… We Answered”

There are buds on the trees, wild leeks poking through leaf litter, and mycelium forming mushrooms!  Time to get in the forest and find some fungi and foraged greens! Preparing for Foraged New York is one of our favorite times of the year!  Supplying foraged goods to area restaurants and sampling them ourselves is suchContinue reading “Foraging Season Is Upon Us!”

The days are getting longer and warmer!  Spring is approaching!  We are getting ready to hit the forests for some fungi forays!  In the meantime, we continue to grow and expand!  March was a month full of furious activity!  From growing record amounts of mushrooms to advocating at the Capitol for Psilocybin access, read onContinue reading “The Power of Fungi”

February may be the shortest month of the year, but we certainly packed a lot in! Many new visitors and fungi friends stopped in to see what we’re growing!  Our sold out February Dinner was a taste bud delight and we did a lot of planning for events coming down the pike! We also officiallyContinue reading “February Fungi”