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 weContinue reading “As the Light Recedes”
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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 ExperienceContinue reading “Summer Grooves”
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 spreadContinue reading “The Magic of May”
Back to Square One
Starting over is never easy, but having an incredible support network sure helps! Incredible outpouring of unending gratitude for everyone that has helped keep the mushrooms moving: Amy Hood, Dave Chaiken, Corinne Carey, Brian Stempel, Kathy Stempel, Sandra Stempel, Mary Donahue, Bob Baldwin, Chris Hadsell, Eric Sommer, Marrow Brooks, Randall Collura, Brandon Clark, Joann Timme,Continue reading “Back to Square One”
So Long and Thanks for all the Fungi
It is with the heaviest of hearts that we announce the end of our time in Lansingburgh. But, every ending is another beginning, we are coming to the close of the story we have been writing at 333 2nd Ave and are shifting our operations elsewhere. We will continue to offer fresh mushrooms and aContinue reading “So Long and Thanks for all the Fungi”
The Future is Ever Uncertain
We fruit. We spore. We send hope with the wind that our spores will land in a favorable environment, will grow, will flourish… but sometimes, they land and struggle, land and die; the future is ever uncertain. As much as we tried to find financing to purchase the building out of which we’ve been operating,Continue reading “The Future is Ever Uncertain”
Transitions and Changes
September forests fruited prolifically, and so did our farm! It was National Mushroom Month, and boy did we mushroom! We wild foraged so many delicious edibles, and found fun fungi that we had never encountered before! We engaged with our direct community on many levels, and immersed ourselves in the greater national farming movement duringContinue reading “Transitions and Changes”
A Time to Bloom
April was certainly a time to bloom. We expanded into 2 additional markets, delivered to a few new restaurants, and taught several educational experiences to budding mycologists in multiple venues! Our Dinner on the Farm featuring Chef Agata Dean and the Flowering Sun Ecology Team was a mouthwatering exploration of Polish flavor profiles and textures.Continue reading “A Time to Bloom”
Like Spores in the Wind
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”
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”
Collar City Mushrooms 