Mission
Outreach– Share the benefits of fungi & plants in our diets, lives, & environment
Empowerment– Teach easy, affordable techniques, offer quality grow-your-own options, create inclusive spaces
Low Waste – Wisely use resources, source locally whenever possible & eliminate plastics
Biodiversity – Work creatively with propagation techniques to grow & protect native plant & fungi species
Vision
We want to help create a world where everyone has access to health-promoting, affordable, sustainably grown edible & medicinal fungi & plants
We wish to aid in a return to more curiosity, wonder, connection, knowledge, confidence and trust in the natural world
Bio
First meeting in an MMORPG video game, we followed each other into digital battle for years before deciding we should meet in person (almost 20 years later, we think it went well!) Thanks to near-daily seasonal walks at Tarbin Gardens while living in our first little Franklin, NH apartment, we were fortunate to stay immersed for years in learning and beautiful landscape inspiration.
We always knew we wanted to garden together, so after we found our own little slice of fairytale in Grafton in April of 2019, we planted whatever we could get our hands on. This included mushrooms... which spiraled beyond a hobby into basement production for market, and a growing culture bank of commercial and native mushroom strains found on local trees.
After two seasons selling conventionally grown gourmet mushrooms at farmer's markets, we discontinued resource-heavy methods requiring disposables and began looking to the forest for inspiration instead. Shrub and flower plantings intended to support wildlife and bring joy to the yard have continued to expand annually into cut flower patches and propagation stock.
With workshops, ongoing tests of native mushroom strains, outdoor grow tent invention project, ever-expanding gardens, and a farm stand built in August 2026, we're busy investing in what we want to become. Our focus changes at times as we learn, but passion for the growing things around us anchors us into the work we're doing.
Tracey Morton
Folk mycologist, lifelong nature nerd, forager, and artist. Upstate NY farm kid turned New England kitchen witch, designer, creator, aspiring inventor
