Basil’s fungi farm

Basil’s fungi farm We supply East Sussex with unique gourmet mushrooms, grown in the centre of Hastings at The Yard

It’s your last chance to order a mushroom Grow Kit for Christmas!You must order by Tuesday afternoon to receive your Gro...
16/12/2024

It’s your last chance to order a mushroom Grow Kit for Christmas!

You must order by Tuesday afternoon to receive your Grow Kit before Christmas. Collection will still be available over the weekend and next week.

Everything you need to know about our Grow Kits is on our website, they’re very easy to use, and fast to grow!

Thanks for all of your orders so far!

Here are all of our markets for the remainder of the year!A chance to purchase a Grow Kit for a present, or some mushroo...
05/12/2024

Here are all of our markets for the remainder of the year!
A chance to purchase a Grow Kit for a present, or some mushrooms for your Christmas dinner 🍄

7th The Market at Ashburnham
14th Hastings Makers Market .waterworksroad
15th Beckley Farmers Market
21st Waterlane Produce market .lane
22nd America ground market

Thank you so much for all of your support at our markets so far this year, it’s always lovely meeting you and talking about what we do.

Know someone who would like a Grow Kit, but not sure when they’ll want to start it?We asked our neighbours to print us ...
02/12/2024

Know someone who would like a Grow Kit, but not sure when they’ll want to start it?
We asked our neighbours to print us some gift vouchers!
As always, the artwork is by and it’s reason enough to buy a voucher 🍄

Everything you need to know is on our website.
Get 15% off until December 8th with code MEOW

Take a glance into our lab as we’re chaotically trying to stay on top of the usual mushroom demand from restaurants, as ...
30/11/2024

Take a glance into our lab as we’re chaotically trying to stay on top of the usual mushroom demand from restaurants, as well as all of your Christmas Grow Kit orders.
Amongst it all we’re still trying to work on some interesting new projects, we’ve just finished cloning a local Velvet Shank mushroom foraged by , similar to an enoki mushroom. We’ll have it in the grow room very soon to see how it performs! Fingers crossed it does just as well as our native blue oyster that we cloned last year, which we’re now growing lots of.

Just working on insulating the new steriliser!It’s a huge relief to finally have this new steam steriliser running. It a...
29/11/2024

Just working on insulating the new steriliser!

It’s a huge relief to finally have this new steam steriliser running. It allows us to process 300kg of mushroom substrate at a time, we’re already running it flat-out trying to get enough mushrooms and Grow Kits ready for Christmas.

This machine allows us to take sawdust straight from the sawmill and get it ready to grow mushrooms on. The hot steam will kill any bacteria, yeasts or fungus present in the sawdust, letting is grow mycelium through the sawdust without any competing organisms.

It’s the beating heart of Basils Fungi Farm!

We’ve had a bumper crop of Poppino, Lion’s Mane, Golden Oyster and Native Blue Oyster mushrooms in the last few weeks. T...
25/11/2024

We’ve had a bumper crop of Poppino, Lion’s Mane, Golden Oyster and Native Blue Oyster mushrooms in the last few weeks. This crate went to a favourite local restaurant.

This weekend you can find us at two different markets, Hastings Makers on Saturday and Water Lane’s Christmas Market on Sunday. Come say hi and talk to us about mushrooms!

We’ve had a bumper crop of Poppino, Lion’s Mane, Golden Oyster and Native Blue Oyster mushrooms in the last few weeks. T...
25/11/2024

We’ve had a bumper crop of Poppino, Lion’s Mane, Golden Oyster and Native Blue Oyster mushrooms in the last few weeks. This crate went to a favourite local restaurant.

This weekend you can find us at two different markets, Hastings Makers on Saturday and Water Lane’s Christmas Market on Saturday/Sunday. Come say hi and talk to us about mushrooms!

We’ve been extra busy lately! The Lab is packed with fruiting blocks ready to grow mushrooms for your Christmas dinner, ...
15/11/2024

We’ve been extra busy lately! The Lab is packed with fruiting blocks ready to grow mushrooms for your Christmas dinner, the grow room is filling up with new varieties, we can’t wait for them to be ready to harvest and it feels like we’ve made enough Grow Kits for everyone in Hastings to have one.

We’ve been really busy with the website too. Our website is live, all shiny and new. We’re super excited for you to see it.

It’s more comprehensive than our last one, you can read all about us and how we started Basil’s Fungi Farm, find where to buy our mushrooms, buy a Grow Kit or a Grow Kit gift voucher (they make the perfect present), we’ve got hoodies, t-shirts and totes for sale too.

Go have a gander and let us know if you’ve any questions.

-Robbie

Golden oyster mushrooms are becoming a favourite! When the mycelium is healthy, it strongly smells of watermelon…They’re...
10/11/2024

Golden oyster mushrooms are becoming a favourite! When the mycelium is healthy, it strongly smells of watermelon…
They’re handling this colder weather well, so we’ll keep them growing for now

It’s not long now until the Water Lane Christmas markets, we’ll be bringing the best mushrooms we’ve got to offer, and, ...
27/10/2024

It’s not long now until the Water Lane Christmas markets, we’ll be bringing the best mushrooms we’ve got to offer, and, more importantly, plenty of grow kits for Christmas presents!

We’ll be in good company, take a look at .lane for more information.

Hello! It’s been a chaotic couple of months attempting to rebuild the farm from the ground up so that I can keep up with...
22/10/2024

Hello!
It’s been a chaotic couple of months attempting to rebuild the farm from the ground up so that I can keep up with the demand for mushrooms and growing kits.
Thanks to the generosity of my friends, we’re making good progress and will have lots to share soon.
I appreciate everyone’s patience in this time, if I’ve missed any messages, just give me a prod.
For now, here’s a huge coral tooth I’ve grown, and Derrick my beloved van.
See ‘s latest post on how to cook coral tooth like calamari!

I’m so happy to be getting some large clusters of our East Sussex Native blue oyster out to this week.This is the blue ...
23/09/2024

I’m so happy to be getting some large clusters of our East Sussex Native blue oyster out to this week.

This is the blue oyster mushroom that found in the woods last year, I cloned its mycelium and have propagated it out into our grow room.

It grows as big as our commercial cultures, and has an impressively firm texture, which probably lends to a great shelf life

Just like all of our mushrooms, this has been grown on local wood waste from

Thank you for putting on such an inspiring event last weekend! We only made it on the Sunday, but still met so many in...
21/09/2024

Thank you for putting on such an inspiring event last weekend! We only made it on the Sunday, but still met so many interesting people and took away so much enthusiasm and knowledge. We’ll certainly be back next year!

I hope to see lots of you at The Yard makers market today, come take a peek into our grow room! waterworksroad
21/09/2024

I hope to see lots of you at The Yard makers market today, come take a peek into our grow room! waterworksroad

We’ll be at the Waterlane Autumn fair this Saturday. This was our first ever market one year ago! It’s always a busy one...
09/09/2024

We’ll be at the Waterlane Autumn fair this Saturday. This was our first ever market one year ago! It’s always a busy one so do turn up early for mushrooms 🍄

Come and pick up some colourful mushrooms tomorrow at , It’s always a nice market!We’ve been working hard behind the sc...
30/08/2024

Come and pick up some colourful mushrooms tomorrow at , It’s always a nice market!

We’ve been working hard behind the scenes, soon enough we’ll be offering local collection (and possibly deliveries?) to the general public, as well as significantly ramping up mushroom production. Let us know which varieties you’re most keen to see 🍄🍄🍄

We’re starting to get the amazing Coral tooth mushroom out to some chefs in Hastings. Its branching stems and firm textu...
08/08/2024

We’re starting to get the amazing Coral tooth mushroom out to some chefs in Hastings. Its branching stems and firm texture make it very similar to calamari tentacles when battered and deep fried 🐙🍄
Very popular so far!

Look at this huge king oyster 😱 it weighed in at 600 grams.It’s so nice being able to get more varieties growing now tha...
15/07/2024

Look at this huge king oyster 😱 it weighed in at 600 grams.
It’s so nice being able to get more varieties growing now that I’m working out of the new lab!

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Mushroom Grow Kits🍄 Time is running out to get your Christmas orders in, we’ve made our last batch of Grow Kits for the year, and when they’re gone, they’re gone! It’s a great present that anyone is sure to enjoy, they’re very simple to use and it’s fascinating to watch the mushrooms grow. All of the information you need is on our website, Basilsfungifarm.com Order ASAP for postage or collection is available from Hastings up until Christmas.

Derrick the van has had a makeover, thanks to our neighbours at ABC Signs. Wave if you see us!

We’ll be opening our doors tomorrow at the Yard makers market, 11am until 4, come and have a chat and see inside our mushroom farm 🍄🍄🍄

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