Working along with nature

Fungi, trees and plants exist in a state where we can all constantly learn from them, no matter our level of knowledge. The benefits of consciously including them in our lives are not something one can measure in dollars.

We believe nature & food education is a human right, a forgotten need & a necessity to being a good resident of our beautiful planet. It's an honor to share what we know - with whoever wants to learn - because we know it can help build more resilient, connected, healthy communities.

Check out ways to learn and grow with us:

Hands-on Workshops

Learning to grow mushrooms at home has many benefits we love to share. It's good for the body and soul, it empowers forested land unsuitable for most crops to produce highly valued food and medicine. It deepens our connection to the land, trees, and unseen but essential processes going on all around us in nature.

We believe mushrooms are a food of the people, not an expensive luxury product, and we want to help bring them to more backyards! We currently offer oyster log bucket workshops in Fall / Winter & wine cap bed workshops in Spring / Fall.

As we learn from existing customers' grows & refine our techniques for new home growers, we hope to add more offerings to our lineup.

Educational Projects

We were approached by leaders from SAU 4's nutrition program and Indian River School's garden club for educational materials for their students. We appreciate outreach opportunities where the next generation can connect with growing culinary fungi. In today's extremely online, screen focused world, we believe kids especially need more interesting activities that connect them to nature.

Thanks to a prompt to create an obstacle from the hosts of the 2026 Grafton Games, we created the "Wheel of Mushrooms" as a fun, educational tool to introduce littles and adults alike to common Northeastern wild mushroom species. Inside a triangular door below each photo, the spinner finds the species name and whether it is edible, medicinal, toxic, or deadly.

Although we've been approached by several home school groups, we haven't solidified any actual plans yet. We're open to speaking to homeschool groups & families about their needs.

Please reach out if you're a local educator of any kind and think our offerings could benefit your students.

Learn More

YouTube

We wish we could take a mushroom walk with everyone who wants one and show them how to cut a flush of oysters, check for pests, trim them up for cooking or storage. We can't personally visit each grower who attended a workshop and is ready to harvest their first ever handful of tasty oysters from a log. YouTube offers a way for us to do almost that - and also document our own progress as growers.

Although we're just beginning to add (spontaneous and somewhat awkward... just like real life!) videos to our library, we hope to build a visual resource bank to support workshop attendees and other mushroom lovers. Whether using our product or not, we aim to give concise and helpful information on topics that help give viewers more confidence around mushrooms - plus maybe the occasional silly / educational short.

GYO Product Guides

After the first few workshops, we recognized the need to offer a take-home printed instruction sheet. Some of our earlier attendees did not receive these, so we made the guides available as a printable PDF. After a customer request to replace their paper copy, we hope easy online access to these documents is useful to more folks.

Video and long form online text have their place, but the convenience of a hard copy quick reference sheet is something we believe will help more growers succeed.

Guides are subject to change / editing, and we always appreciate customer feedback on them!