Mother Fungus Gourmet Mushrooms

13/12/2024

Saturday morning maitake picking

10/12/2024

Can some of my chef friends please explain how these horrible pale ass steaks qualify as scotch fillet. Feel free to rant and if you don’t wanna put your name on it DM me and I’ll post on your behalf.

05/11/2024

18/10/2024

On a fresh product like mushrooms there is such a fine balance between being able to supply your customers every week and trying not to rush the growing process. I’ve been guilty of rushing the maitake’s, which only leads to lower yields and letting down customers. Just like in life, sometimes you just have to slow down, pull back and let things develop on there own

05/10/2024

When your wife steals your 1997 nick cave tour shirt that hasn’t fit me since 1998

02/10/2024

Another 230 mushie blocks heading for sterilisation

25/09/2024

The growth stages of maitake mushrooms

26/08/2024

Cooking king oyster scallops

24/05/2024

22/05/2024

Cleaning, always cleaning. This is the thing they don’t tell you about growing mushrooms. Today I’m cleaning rolling racks and mushroom tubs. I’ll also clean the fruiting room floor to ceiling, clean the humidifier and basically give the whole shed a sweep and mop. This and much more cleaning all happens at least once a week and often more. SO, if you ever wanted to grow mushrooms but you don’t like cleaning ( I really don’t) this may not be the profession for you. Haha

10/05/2024

Maitake, aka hen of the woods, aka grifola frondosa, aka the dancing mushroom…..my beautiful nemesis, you’ve tested me to my limits. Now maybe we can become friends

18/04/2024

Just a couple of beautiful afternoon photos from our house. We are so lucky to live here

15/03/2024

Picking some amazing looking Maitake today. Such an interesting mushroom to watch grow

11/03/2024

Check out these amazing edible bamboo shoots that my mate is producing. Latiflorus and Asper species. All are over 2kg and so crunchy and fresh

03/02/2024

We’re getting closer everyday. If your restaurant is interested in putting maitake on your upcoming menu, drop us a Dm.

27/01/2024

We’re a little bit excited about this. Our first taste of Mother fungus grown maitake mushroom. We made plenty of mistakes trying to grow this one, and it was definitely not as pretty as I was hoping , but it had amazing flavour and texture. Hopefully we’ll have lots more maitake coming soon, watch this space!

07/01/2024

We’re finally in Saigon wooo hoo, and what an adventure it’s been. 4 hours to Sydney, at the gate only to be denied boarding and off loaded. Met another couple in the same predicament, teamed up in an amazing race style trip around Sydney to camera shops and DEFAT. Finished Thursday around 9 in a Sydney hotel with an emergency passport. Several hundred dollars lighter and so many Uber rides deep. Friday, Vietnamese consulate, then back to airport, Saturday finally heading to Vietnam, this time via Melbourne. Arrive Melbourne around lunchtime for a 4.40pm flight, then 5.40, then delayed again till 6.40, 7.40, then 8pm. Finally flew out at 9.30pm, absolutely exhausted. Landed in Ho chi min 9 hours later, 2.30 am their time, got stuck in customs for another hour plus. Got ripped by the cabby on way to hotel, too exhausted to care. found out hotel was only booked for one person, coughed up another $200 bucks. Finally into our room about 4am Sunday. That’s when I took the first photo. A massive shoutout to .horvath and ( second photo and looking surprisingly good for 40 hours into this adventure) who shared this crazy adventure with us. None of us wanted this, but Without the four of us together this would have been so much worse. We made an amazing team and by the end it felt like we’d known each other for years. Hopefully we can catch up again under better circumstances next time